Well, It's been about a month since the 2nd running of AD30.
I've been reflecting, and thinking, and wondering. One question I can't seem to answer is:
How in the living hell did that many people finish?
The river running right off the bat should have been a blow to the psyche.
The half mile uphill to Conant Road shortly after.
The 1 million mile uphill to the Nordic Heritage Center should have sent everyone home to lay in the fetal position for the next week.
Hell Hour should have been the nail in the coffin.
If this is so, why did 6 people make it as far as Mojo, at mile 22?
And why in the hell did 5 finish?
WHY?
When I think of this, I shed a tear, and then laugh a little.
The days before the event saw lots of nervous new Dirties, shaking in their britches, demanding that we be nicer, or else no one will do our event in future years. From 2011's finisher rate, there must have been TMBs secretly handing out milk and cookies when Kate and I weren't looking.
Whereas I know this isn't so, this is my conclusion.
Aroostook County, go to Tim Hortons. Go to Walmart.
You are no stranger to being out and about, and seeing athletic types milling around, maybe even clad in MWSC gear, or high school varsity jackets. Maybe even international professional athletes. These are not the tough guys.
Nope. Sorry. Not as long as there are these sick, tough-as-the-nail-they-won-Dirties around.
There's only 5 of them in the County. 2 more in Southern Maine. 7 total. I am telling you right now, these are the toughest people you know. The stuff we put them through was just barbaric.
No strapping young 20 year old men here. No rail thin runner chicks in this group.
We're talking women built like brick shithouses, who can do pushups and squats and burpees all day, and then laugh it off and run 30 miles. Dudes older than 50, hardened by a life of fitness exploits.
In case you haven't been following the Facebook page, the 2012 Apocalypse Edition is set for September 22nd, and is going to suck worse than any other one before it.
And if this pissed you off because you think you are tougher than Michelle Roy, Kyle Washington, Gary Allen, Brent Jepson, Barb Hrubesh, Amy Poland, and Susan Plissey, good.
Submit your letter of intent to kalepoland@yahoo.com and prove us wrong.
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