[paper_trail] Putting the owls to sleep

AO: paper_trail
Q: Cliffhanger
PAX: Kid Rock, Flip Phone, Paper Jam, Chastain, Dasher – Jeff Green, Cliffhanger
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Three waves of runners today: Flip phone and Kid Rock started much earlier for 13+ and 20+ resp. The mountaineers (Paper Jam and YHC) had the standard 6 am start. The GTE crew (Chastain and Dasher) went for a 6:30am start, killing it, with a 10 minute/mile “because they are recovering.” Absolute beasts.

As usual, the different waves of runners mixed and matched along the trail.

Great opportunity to hear all the stories of cold, endurance, perseverance and misery from the rucking event last weekend. No matter how gruesome they made it sound, somehow it’s still extremely appealing.

Other than that, some of us witnessed Kid startling the heck of a huge owl—the poor guy was perched on the rail of one of the bridges, probably ready to catch its last meal of the night. Apparently we were so fast, it didn’t even feel us going by. Anyway, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.