Gord Bamford, This Old Hat
Neil Young, Are you Ready for the Country
Pure Prairie League, Two Lane Highway
The Outlaws, There Goes another Love Song
Charlie Daniels Band, Devil Went Down to Georgia
Waylon Jennings, Loving Her was Easier
Allman Brothers, Jessica
Miranda Lambert, Kerosene
Diamond Rio, It's All in your Head
Marshall Tucker Band, Searching for a Rainbow
Atlanta Rhythm Section, So Into You
Eagles, Good Day in Hell
Janis Joplin, Me & Bobby McGee
Jack Ingram, Keep on Keepin' on
Lucinda Williams, I Lost it
Steve Earle, All my Life
Poco, Good Feeling to Know
Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Standin' on the Rock
Justin Townes Earle, Halfway to Jackson
La Grange, ZZ Top
By popular demand we will do it again, soon. Git yer requests in early (or it's up to me).
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(BIG COMING ATTRACTION VOICE) And now…..
The TJ 31 Awards (envelope please)
Best ov
erall performance, male or female, young or old:STEPHANIE HUEY ROHL. Going sub two hours on this course is phenomenal (Pulling up quick archival results from 2006 shows the winner in Ms Rohl's AG at 2:05:56 for comparison). As a result of her graceful traverse of the 13.1 miles, she receives a $200 gift certificate at Living Well Chiropractic so see what the heck is going on around the starboard-side greater trochanter.
Best performance by a TJ first timer: KERRY COMBS. Responding to our extensive word of mouth advertising campaign and learning about the event a matter of hours prior to start, Kerry simply shows up and hammers out a snappy 2:11. Not bad for a Hospitalist. Kerry got a Greek Pizza
as award.The first annual Honest Abe Award: BOB POWERS. We call this a minimalist race for a reason. Bob went off course, adding a couple of extra hills (all he needed) but ending up a little short on total mileage, so he simply uses his Garmin GPS to guide him through an extra loop to finish at 13.3 miles. The judges, in their wisdom and benevolence, voted 7-1 to nullify a disqualification and award Bob a hard-earned AG award and second place overall, 1:51:25. We will, however have to add an asterisk by his time from this point forward.
Walker of the Day award goes to LAURA HEGARTY. Our first ever non-runner needs to walk away with something besides sore feet! We saw her at the start and that was it, so her time and distance will remain in question until her next visit to the HoM.
Blood &
Guts Award: ERIC BRIAN JOHNSON (ej), for his courageous (some might say curious) attempt at running this monstrous course on virtually zero training. As he found, surfing in SOCAL doesn't add lot of cardio to the mix. Bonus points to EJ for just showing up, as it was rumored that several people who passed him along the course heard an endless loop cry of, "I could be home watching the Masters".Special thanks to first time Race Director, ROSEVILLE GEORGE, who, once the cones and water station(s) were set up, instantly went home to watch the above mentioned sports programming on TV, and who, God Bless Him, called later that day to ask how things went.
A good time was had by all. The 2012 Toe Jam Half Marathon Numero 32 tentative
date is either April 15th or the 29th. MARK IT DOWN 31ers!Congratulations and thanks.
Race Day Pix: (top2bot) Stephanie thinking she could have gone harder up Ft. Ward Hill. Kerry sprints to the finish cone. Bob making sure he went the required distance (in 1:51:25*). RG in front of the award winners in the podium-lot
TJ 31. That's a wrap.
4 comments:
every time I run with you guys, my quads feel like trunks of NW cedar trees as I painfully lurch down stairs and otherwise try to move...
But the Blood & Guts award has gotta make up for it, right? We'll work on it, hang in there.
yeah, the Blood & Guts award will likely impress all my new girlfriends. Thanks Chief. I will see what I can do to getting a medal or trophy for you having won again this year.
I drank the trophies at the Treehouse, they were gooooooooood.
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