Blazing Straddle heroically offered up her home (yes, we
were here just a month ago) for a hash, and Spurt and Blow in the Hole offered to help out with flour. So they all got together at eight ack emma, when it was still fairly chilly, and slathered historic downtown Herndon with floury marks, and then BStrad started her pots boiling, and by noon twenty more of us had joined the heroes as the sun struggled with cloud cover and the day warmed up to downright cool. "Enjoy downtown Herndon," was most of the brief (plus something about a possible backcheck), and the group split almost down the middle, with eleven runners heading south and then east while nine walkers followed Ole Fud toward the TRAIN! And the bread bakery. Let's not forget the bread bakery.
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| The Jazz Swinger remembered the bakery. |
The run was mostly paved, describing a fair-sized southerly clockwise loop that crossed the W&OD twice. Despite the presence of young whippersnapper Mike, the pack stuck pretty well together. Or perhaps because of said presence; as Rough Cut notes, the reason we have whippersnappers is so someone else can check the falses. Not that R.C. didn't check a few falses his own self...
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| The first shall be last, and then catch up to the front again. |
Some of the walkers spent some time in the woods, fortified by Great Harvest carbs; most stuck to the asphalt. And the TRAIN! Everyone eventually wound up back at the house, where Mango, Oscar, Abby and Kylie gazed hopefully at the plates of noodles and meatballs. Okay, Oscar not so much -- he doesn't do people food. In fact, offered one of BStrad's sister's homemade Christmas cookies, he barely seemed to notice. Silly Oscar. Those cookies were good.
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| Even more fun than trains. |
The Mufti hollered his roll, celebrating Rough Cut's 900th run with raucous cheers. Then he bid the group a fond, "See you," as he mentally finished packing for the long drive to California. He urged everyone to extend the same respect, courtesy and attention to Acting Mufti The Oral Advocate as we do to himself... then thought that over and suggested maybe just a hint more would be appropriate. Phoenix Rising urged O.A. to remember the 'benevolent' part of 'benevolent dictator.' The inter-regnum begins two days post-Christmas, either in Herndon or Ashburn. Watch
the official site, and if you like, take a gander at
this week's photos, too.
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