7th NE2KC Oh Yes, It Was Good!

PaulG · Post by **PaulG** » January 20th, 2010, 11:57 am

Great pictures, great descriptions, and a great competition Rick. I think everyone enjoyed all of the morning with the possible exception of the last 3 minutes of each person's race. My thanks to all who contributed.

Paul Geoghegan

Yankeerunner · Post by **Yankeerunner** » January 20th, 2010, 12:15 pm

Thanks Paul. It's certainly the group effort that makes it the good time that it is.

Jim Keating, who annually donates Nelson Sennit keyrings from his The Marlinspike Sailor Of Marblehead business that he does with his son (see marlinspikesailor.com ). Jim was 2nd this year in the 60-69 Hwt division with a 7:35.1 at age 62, then headed off with Mrs. Keating to explore Angie's and/or Taffy's restaurants and load up with breakfast or breakfasts.

Yankeerunner · Post by **Yankeerunner** » January 20th, 2010, 1:03 pm

Sharon Yu, using the erg for cross-training in preparation for running the Paris Marathon in April, won the Coxswain (120lb for women) division with 9:32.2 at age 56. She also baked and brought lots of excellent cookies for post-race refreshment. Sharon rowed CRASH-Bs back when they were still 2500m, so this must have felt like nothing.

Yankeerunner · Post by **Yankeerunner** » January 20th, 2010, 1:51 pm

Rick Bayko, the Grand Poobah hisself, shown here already emitting a lactic acid haze with far too many meters to go and probably wondering if life is even going to worth living on the other side of this 2K. It got better. Later the Sledgehammer winner Jon Bone asked with a hint of sarcasm "Are you even 150 pounds?" The answer was "Noooo." It should have been, "Not even close." This morning at the gym the balance beam scale read 142 lbs, and the digital scale 143.8. Even at the higher figure I'm closer to Coxswain (130 for men) than Heavyweight (165.1 for men).

Yankeerunner · Post by **Yankeerunner** » January 20th, 2010, 3:08 pm

Last photo. The Class of 2010, posing as mandated by the headmaster for a formal photograph...........

......and the pose that we really wanted to show.

Hope to see y'all next year.

Kinley · Post by **Kinley** » January 20th, 2010, 5:29 pm

Good grief! I didn't realize everyone standing behind me was actually making silly faces like you told them to.

michaelb · Post by **michaelb** » January 20th, 2010, 11:01 pm

Looks like fun. Great rowing all. Is there an official invitation list? Can I get on it? I really should drive down one of these years.

Yankeerunner · Post by **Yankeerunner** » January 21st, 2010, 6:35 pm

Kinley, it's a bit scary, isn't it? I promise to try to use my powers for good instead of evil.

OTOH, you might have been the only one of us to survive had we all been in Jonestown.

michaelb, it would be great to have you. send me your email (PM or whatever) and I'll add you to my email list. I only use it for that one purpose.

macroth · Post by **macroth** » January 22nd, 2010, 11:17 am

Yankeerunner wrote:

Kinley wrote: Good grief! I didn't realize everyone standing behind me was actually making silly faces like you told them to.

Kinley, I can't tell if you were the victim of one of the biggest photobombs ever, or if you pulled a beautiful reverse photobomb on the lot of 'em.

chgoss · Post by **chgoss** » January 23rd, 2010, 11:17 am

Typically, I'm one of the taller ones in a group photo

seat5 · Post by **seat5** » January 25th, 2010, 8:27 am

Thanks for the great report on your event, the photos, and congratulations on all the great results! Been away this week with a family emergency and didn't get to see all this until today.
Well done!