A Buried Love Bug for Monica Lynch!Ridiculed earlier for having cancelled camp due to near Blizzard conditions, the Beyond run this week went on, and will forever be remembered as the Great Antarctic 20 Mile Adventure. Only the heartiest of souls appeared for this adventure, which other than beautiful tunnel of trees out R Ave, sported vast wastelands of snow drifts and ice. The course conditions were so extreme Bonnie managed to get her suburban stuck in lunar drifts at aid station 4. Despite a valiant attempt by Russ Bertch, Scott Taylor, Ralph Meyer, Mark Sigfrids, Brian Dobbie, Brenda Stoddard & Joel Pennington, it took the strength of a 10-cylander Excursion to extract the wedged vehicle out of the artic terrain. Does anyone else need any further explanation as to why the Sexton family NEEDS two monstrous gas guzzling SUV’s? Rumor has it that Bonnie was pulled out of KAR/BCRR member Frank Hui’s front yard a couple of weeks ago by another neighbor.
The changing of the guard is expected to take place this Wednesday at the KAR/BCRR Annual Banquet with Marty Buffenbarger and Jen Shaffer coming on as new board members and joining the Beyond’s Sherrie Mann, Scott Taylor, Ralph Meyer and Carrie Hybels in driving the Kalamazoo Area Runners Space Ship. Bonnie will continue on as a Board Advisor and will continue coordinating training programs. Rumor has it lots of Beyond participants will be receiving runner recognition awards.
In recent marathon racing action, Todd Raab & Peter Gower added yet another conquest to their long list of marathon completions. Spurred on by all the talk of Mardi Gras festivities taking place the week before, they both ran the Mardi Gras Marathon February 25. Peter, once again finished within 5 minutes of Boston qualifying time with a strong 3:35:38 while Todd finished in an awesome 3:48:55. Congratulations Todd & Peter on another conquest! With Todd’s penchant for extreme conditions, we are surprised he didn’t show up Saturday for the Antarctic Adventure! Rumor has it Todd used to run 20 milers at 1:00 am to the sound of coyotes when he lived in New Mexico.
Peter Gower
Sherrie Mann, Monica Lynch and Cindi Owen created their own little Arctic Adventure at 5:30 am Saturday so that Sherrie could head to Hell (MI) in time to register their Dances with Dirt team, We can’t get no Stinkin’ Signal Out Here!Mike Ryan and Gordon Hare are looking to make the Glass City Marathon their 26.2 of choice while Julie Wojtaszek is contemplating Martian!
