Parks and Rec-Tacular Alleycat Report

David likes organizing good alleycats and this one featured a twist. A set of questions racers discovered during the race had us scrambling through the park to find more answers. It was the race within the race, unless you’re the Duker and you can’t find the questions. Oh well, he still managed a top 10 finish. Chris had his headlamp fall apart on him and left him scrambling hopelessly in the dark which added up to 55 minutes in penalties, Steve was the only racer to run a penalty free race (even though he fell twice) and Gavins honosty dropped him from 2nd to 3rd. One mystery park clue/red herring later and we were all back at the clubhouse – eventually; we were rounding up a search party, but Giles finally returned. The 10 minute penalty per mistake, and 5 minute penalty on the race within the race made reading comprehension skills an asset, something that is not usually my forte. It must have been the ALL CAPS directions that gave me my focus to hold on for the win. Final results: 1 - Johnny – 41:50 + 5 = 46:50 2 – Steve – 50:00 + 0 = 50:00 3 - Gavin – 45:22 + 10 = 55:22 4 – Shaun – 53:24 + 20 + 1:13:24 5 – Mike – 55:51 + 30 = 1:25:51 6 – Albert – 57:03 + 30 = 1:27:03 7 – Tom – 1:05:03 +25 = 1:30:03 8 – Giles – 1:24:55 + 15 = 1:39:55 9 – Chris – 50:51 + 55 = 1:45:51 10 – Myron – DNFind DB, Franklin, Curt and James joined us at the clubhouse where the minutes included: stop sign laws etc., being cheap vs visionary, my new bike light, complaining (DB) vs noting, the Shaun-Dyck wrap vs the Shaun Dyck-wrap, Jets tickets, wheelchair backflips, Craig Doell gained 20 pounds in 2 days, the hour of power – 1 oz of beer every minute, Steve is the leading contender for ABE of the year, David has a new cross bike, Athena Bike Club runs stop-signs, and the problem of crooked nuts. Good times. Party people - see you at Dark Cross this Saturday. Sorry about the messed up layout - I'm having computer (read: personal) issues. JS