0443:30 YHC looks longingly around an empty parking lot, desperately wishing that he had checked Slack instead of Reddit whilst having his morning constitutional to see of there were any HCs for the 10 miler. Would he have the moral fortitude to do this thang on his own?…..

0444:00 Like Venus ascending, a be-hoodied Paperboy emerges from the gloom, frost glistening in his beard like a modern day Thor. Lamps on, watches activated, the run begins.

0450:57 climbing up Great Meadow Park at a sedate pace, YHC sees some shapes in the gloom. Trash cans? Ruckers? Trash cans.

0517:99 pounding down Tobacco Farm Way like Nike himself, Paperboy spies forms in the mist. Trash cans? Ruckers? Ruckers (Rambler and the artist formally known as Bright Idea)

0530:33r The gleaming faces of Dueling Banjos, RG3, Homes and Zika make finishing the first 5 a pleasure above all pleasures, a veritable Xanadu of good feeling . Let’s do it again.

0539:xy A lone wolf howls, an owl screeches, and Mothman appears on our tail like he wasn’t just peering though neighbors’ windows.

0550:00 YHC’s legs can take the aggressive pace no more, he peels off.

0550:08 Mothman comes up the rear(!) proving he is the most generous man in Churham.

0559:brrr Hypothermia sets into YHC’s core, and he can’t remember anything else.

COT: Keep showing up, it makes foreigner happy.