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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 17, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -5
 March 3, 2024 : Competitors start the cross-country ski classics race Vasaloppet in Saelen, Sweden. Ulf Palm, TT News Agency via AP |
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Post by BHU on Mar 18, 2024 15:57:45 GMT -5
A few years ago when I lived on Culver Ave I got up the morning of the race to check it out. I sat on my lawn chair with a cup of coffee & back then I was a chain smoker. I got the hairy eyeball from quite a few runners, why I don't know. It's not like I was blowing smoke in their faces or anything. At least I wasen't drinking beer too at that hour.
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Post by chris on Mar 18, 2024 16:11:25 GMT -5
You dont realize but the wind blows that smoke all over and it is picked up by non smokers in a second.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 18, 2024 17:21:42 GMT -5
We always set up on the corner of Calder Ave and Champlin Ave with lawn chairs, thermos's full of coffee and a couple of boxes of Holland Farms assorted goodies. Her parents, her sister and brother in-law and her and I. The ex's son and nephew used to run. I never saw the attraction of sitting for an hour or more to wave at them as they trotted by looking like they were about to puke, fall down, and die.
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Post by BHU on Mar 18, 2024 17:58:07 GMT -5
You dont realize but the wind blows that smoke all over and it is picked up by non smokers in a second. I was probably 25 ft away from the runners. |
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Post by BHU on Mar 18, 2024 18:00:45 GMT -5
We always set up on the corner of Calder Ave and Champlin Ave with lawn chairs, thermos's full of coffee and a couple of boxes of Holland Farms assorted goodies. Her parents, her sister and brother in-law and her and I. The ex's son and nephew used to run. I never saw the attraction of sitting for an hour or more to wave at them as they trotted by looking like they were about to puke, fall down, and die. Before or after the beer fest on Varick St? |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 18, 2024 22:47:18 GMT -5
I skipped the beer fest on Varick St. I attended just once and had to park on Lafayette St. and State Street and walking back to the brewery. Not worth my while to walk several blocks to rub elbows with a sweaty mob intent on getting loaded and foolish. Her entire family gave up the festivities at the brewery and instead began having a cookout in her parent's yard for the family.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 19, 2024 8:12:25 GMT -5
I always viewed the event on TV at a more reasonable hour. Who wakes up that early to go running....not me.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 19, 2024 8:53:04 GMT -5
I wake up that early but the farthest I run is to the bathroom and then the coffee pot.
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Post by kit on Mar 19, 2024 10:34:13 GMT -5
I've 'done' the Boilermaker for 23 years, but not as a runner. I'm one of a network of volunteer ham radio operators who help maintain safety throughout the course. We work with the medical personnel and keep an eye on the runners and report any problems to our Net Control Operator who keeps track of all aspects of the race. There are between 30 and 40 of us hams stationed throughout the course. I remember several years ago chatting on the radio with Dave Griffin (N2CHI) who also used to do the Boilermaker.
A few years before the Covid pandemic the Boilermaker had as many as 14,000 runners. Now THAT was a lot of people for Utica NY with all the runners, their families and miscellaneous spectators who came in from out of town.
Ahhh... the good ol' days.
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Post by chris on Mar 19, 2024 15:09:22 GMT -5
My niece ran the boilermaker one year. Last year she did the Maine Triatholon.
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Post by chris on Mar 19, 2024 15:13:19 GMT -5
I always viewed the event on TV at a more reasonable hour. Who wakes up that early to go running....not me. Caught live on FB a few times. I like watching them run down all my stomping grounds. |
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