- When:10/23/16
- QIC: Margo & Gerber
- The PAX: 40 PAX
2nd Annual Southern Discomfort
YHC and Gerber were asked to help organize the 2nd Annual #SouthernDiscomfort. The sign up genius went out in mid September and YHC was a little worried to see a whopping 8 signed up after the first 10 days. YHC was delighted to see 40 men gathered in the Centurion parking lot ready to roll on Saturday morning. After some final donation collecting, taking a head count & a detailed disclaimer the PAX headed to the parking garage (Tartarus) for the start.
MAIN EVENT
Run from Centurion to Hydra/SOFA WIB with 6 pain stations along the way. 10 minute work out at each pain station lead by the site Q’s.
1. Centurion
2. Day Zero
3. Anvil/The Rock
4. South Charlotte MS
5. Arboretum
6. Hydra/SOFA WIB
HIGHLIGHTS (Please chime in the comments to add to these)
1. Run Stopper wore tights
2. Run Stoppers tights were off by Day Zero
3. Udder touched Run Stopper’s tights
4. The paparazzi showed up at DZ. He watched and photographed the entire workout. Kinda got a little creepy
5. The first crossing of 51 after Centurion was a little scary
6. The Rock stepped it up this year and had Gatorade instead of hose water
7. Lots of car beeps as we ran
8. Running with shovel flags is awesome
9. YHC might have ran some with the Pokémon Go app on per request from his son
10. Raised $629 for The Relatives
11. Did not witness any wipeouts on North Face
12. There was some chatter about having beer next year
13. Total mileage covered was 10.3
14. After 10 miles, a workout at SOFA WIB was not popular
A special thanks for all who participated and the Site Q’s for leading and providing hydration. Thank you Gerber for your help and setting up food and drinks at Omega Sports. Prayers that everything is fixable with your leg and you get more clarity after the MRI. YHC talked to The Relatives and they are thrilled with the amount we collected. They said their biggest need is snacks for the children so a good portion of the money will go towards that. Their 2nd need is bus passes followed by gift cards to Target/Walmart. Thank you all for your donations. It is awesome to leverage this event to support our community.
Margo author
What a great Saturday am workout…thanks to all who helped organize the event. Just a couple comments/observations:
15) Kids taking SAT’s have much nicer cars now than when I did it
16) Rough parking lot + “walking Merkins” = Ouchy!
17) Running with shovel flags is awesome! (worth repeating)
18) For the second year in a row, we did COT, BOM and started to leave before Ickey Shuffle made it to the last stop. Oops.
19) I enjoyed the collective groan of a bunch of old men taking those first tender steps after cooling down at the Omega stop.
20) Puddin’ Pop promised Busch Lights at OP and did not deliver. Sure, it was only 9:30, but still.
18) Swiper is no longer allowed at Centurion. He cut off my flawless directions on ramp sprints (granted it took a while to explain my grand plan and I probably would have done the same thing) and took off running. He can explain why I beat him to the top, at least for round 1 (same goes for North Face 555).
19) Amelies has incredible breakfast sandwiches – maybe we can sell them some advertising next year?
20) Squid needs some help planning – left his car at OP and his keys at CCHS so we had to drive over to CCHS to get his keys and back to OP to get his car. At least Amelies was right around the corner (see 19).
21) Purple Haze must have been scared I would out run him (again)
22) Abacus left early (see 21)
23) Next year we need to end at Horsey – Best AO in F3
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