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2007 Reach the Beach Relay Race
(NH: 9/13 to 9/14)
Runners With NO Sole!

Ezmerelda (Van #1's mascot counterpart to Van #2's Ezmatilda) became a visual reminder to 700 team vans on the RTB race course to
guard their souls
from
Runners With NO Soles!

Kickin' Up Some Old Dust:

Mid-September, 351 teams raced 210 miles from Franconia to Hampton Beach (NH) in the two day, Reach the Beach Relay Race. That's... 2, 15-passenger white vans per team... each loaded with 6 weary runner/drivers... over flowing with 50 gallons of Gatorade and H2O... coolers poppin' at the seams with endurance food, home made cookies, empty coffee cups... wet, smelly sneakers and gear... and a driving experience that got pretty darn ripe by Day-2. Oh, yea... and, that's why this is the adventure you don't want to miss!

After last year's triumphant experience, the men and women with sole disappeared into running exile. "g", Team Captain, took up some type of ultra-runny-thingy and no one's heard from him since...

5K Meg and her husband (Drivin' Jim) quit their jobs and traded their home, 2 cars and dog for a white 15-passenger van and have been traveling the back roads of NH ever since...

Trail Maven (AKA Elaine), who ran last year's (surprise) Hero Leg (the most gosh-awful, up and down 8 mile trail leg you've ever set eyes on), left her family to anonymously live in the under brush deep in the Adirondack Mts...

Those Runners With Sole... each with their own unique story... each retreating into their own post-race, little worlds ... never to be seen or heard from again... that is... until late November, 2006. He Must B Giants (AKA Warren) sent a brief teaser e-mail to his former comrades in running-tomfoolery. It read:

I'm putg the teem bak 2geter. Jus lik Jake and Elwould did in da bLuEs Brters. im Redy 2 b the teem cptin. R... u... n?
XOXO... luv, TMBGs

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Much to every one's surprise, it started again. In early spring He Must B Giants held a press conference in an abandoned garage to discuss his commitment for being Team Captain and his efforts to reserect Runners With Sole for the 2007 RTB Relay Race. He noted that everyone (with the exception of Wedding Bells Tim) from the 2006 team agreed to run... but, only... if they dumped last year's Pollyanish name. To which TMBGs declared in his opening remarks:

From this day forward, we will be known as Runners With NO Sole. We will intimidate and race hard. We will be a disciplined team-machine and strictly adhere to, two basic rules. First, we must always have fun. This is the awesome adventure of the year! There will be no pouting because of sleep deprivation or hurty feet. Secondly, from this point forward, nose-picking and mooning will no longer be tolerated. Police your selves! You know who I'm talking about!

 


MO(on)...
AKA Maureen (R.)...
wondered and worried.
As is always the case when planning endurance events deep into the future, injuries and scheduling conflicts crop up. Unfortunately, RWNS saw the likes of Long Shots and Iron Al needing to temporarily step out of the running spot light. With 3 vacancies on the team, the new recruits were: VERY Fast Old Guy (AKA Peter), Likity-Splits (AKA Jan) and Paddle-Jammer (AKA Brian - who co-paddled his team to victory in the 3-day, 25th Anniversary of the Blue Mt. Lake 100 Mile Canoe Race... a mere 1-week before the 2007 RTB!).


VFOG


LS


P-J

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