Week 6 long run

Who: Jessica Borsotti, Ryan Lamanna, and Jared Lamanna

What: Long-run

Where: Peoples State Forest, Barkhamsted, CT

Why: N/A

When: May 1, 2010 @ approximately 4/pm

(Temperature: 80+ degrees)

Jess did 18 and change; I did 11 and change. Jared hung for the first few miles and then was left in the dust. He did four and then biked the rest of the way. After running 11, I met Jared, drank some water, ate a banana, and hopped on my bike--with a quarter of a Nalgene full of water--in pursuit of Jess. On my way up the hill, I dropped the Nalgene, and within seconds the water had spilled from the Nalgene and begun running down the hill. My bad. I collected my water bottle and continued up the hill and onto Route 44. I don't know if any of you readers know Old North Road off of Route 44, but that was, I believe, the 13th (and the 14th?) mile of Jessica's long-run. I tried biking up Old North Road, but I had to stop and walk to the top. It was brutal. At the top, I hopped back on my bike and sped down the road. Finally, I saw Jessica up ahead, and when I caught her, she said: "There you are. What took you so long? I need water." I said: "I don't have any water." She said...What she said cannot be published here, due to its explicit nature. Despite my dropping the ball (no pun intended), she ploughed ahead. A few lots down from where I caught up with Jessica was a house, attached to which was an open garage, in which was a man who clearly had had one too many beers. I pulled into the driveway, placed my bike on the driveway, walked into the open garage, and begged for water. The man kindly threw me an iced cold bottle of water from his mini refrigerator and then went inside and filled up my Nalgene with ice and water. I thanked him, hopped back on my bike once again, and sped down the road. When I caught up with Jessica again, she took the bottle of water and was tempted to chug the whole thing. Instead, she sipped it every few minutes and finished--with plenty in the tank--what proved to be a very, very difficult 18-mile route. Yay!