Mike, he prefers the term “frugal.” We haven’t done the race circuit in so many years, he doesn’t realize that’s a pretty typical entry fee nowadays for a big race.

I’d love to do it just to show we still have a little spunk left at our age. I might be going solo on this one, however.

Unless some others here are so inclined… Mud, dodging deadfalls, climbing, dark forests. Doesn’t sound too different from our favorite cache hunts, does it?

Brian, I can’t sell him on it. I keep telling him….”Remember when we were doing the running circuit, and we’d be so impressed by those ‘old fogies’ who’d get out ahead of us? Now *we* could be those old fogies!”

He claims old fogeyhood has made him wiser. I still want to do this. How about you, Brian? Once on the course, I would just have fun no matter who’s around (and would probably be placed in a slow wave, anyway), but it would be great to get a few people together to anticipate beforehand and commiserate afterward. This one’s even closer to you, too. Even with my banged up patellae, I could do this much and slog it having fun.