Tinsel Fun Run

Brickyarders showed up in force this morning at the Tinsel Fun Run. Mike Taricani, fresh from a 7 mile or so warm up that included 4 w/ Lynda Jaeger came, fully Santa compliant.

 

Results below truncate on Mike but I know what he did: 17 minutes flat. He's off to NYC this afternoon w/ his wife and grandkids (I think) to catch the Rockefeller Center scene.

Tracy performed as I was sure she would, collecting her 2nd trophy from this race and her third overall. Her trophy cabinet's top shelf is pretty much overloaded, noticeably warped in the middle from the weight and in need of replacement. She left Bradley in the dust, trailed Slackin' by not much and showed us that ultrarunners can't be discounted in short races. She writes "So this Brooke chick beat me last year too.  But last year, she slaughtered me.  This year she only beat me by 11 sec.  Guess it wasn't a good day for her.   Next year, she's going down!"

Tracy ran  15:08 (7:34)

Brent ran 14:22 (7:11), faster by a lot than all other Brickyarders. He missed 3rd place by 9 seconds. Extremely well done Brent.

Lee played clean-up today. Couldn't catch anybody. Fortunately, being ancient helped. William Gagnon, 76, one of the founding members of the Hartford Track Club, was behind him. There was one other guy in the 70+ group.

That's Bill next to Eskimo girl.

Veteran Jeannette Cyr picked up hardware today.

Here's today's Rose between two Thorns.

Well done everybody! Thanks Linda for taking the pictures. For four of us, Roxbury, 7 days. See some of you at Brickyard tomorrow at 7:30 AM for about 12 easy miles. Stay healthy, happy, positive, up, close.

Lee