Doctor's Run, May 16, 2004

Number of repeats: eight for Peter; 12 or more for Matt and John.

Bonus: Swim at Steel Derrick quarry following Matt's lead and where Rick Ciolino dove in with such force as to knock the watch off his wrist. About 10 swimmers.

Quote of the day: After the swim: "What did we do to deserve all of this?" Bob Gillis

Thanks: To Pat Watson for blueberry pancakes.

Winner of the Imp(h)oster Cup for 2004: Among the committee's finalists were Rick Ciolino for his watch-losing dive; Matt Curran for pacing us up and down again and then into the water; John Barbour for his relentless, and in the later repeats gaining, pursuit of Matt; Ellen Clark for her head start on the hill; Wes Lassen for offering to take us all for breakfast someday on his Dogtown 5k winnings; Jenn Lassen for her light footedness in carrying the least weight and age up the hill; Sheryl Smith for the sheer good fortune to have won a place in the lottery and Pixie Harrington for the sheer good fortune not to have not won a place in the lottery.

But the cup, by a unanimous vote of the committee, goes to......

Mark Asaro, fresh from knee surgery and unable to run the mountain this year, for his unstinting devotion to the mountain as exemplified, in true Greasy Pole tradition, by delegating his son Peter to run in his place, by coming to Prep Day anyway to support it and us and to shoot it photographically and by running one "symbolic" hill repeat with Peter. Not just "one small step for Mark Asaro." It was "a giant leap forward" for his training for Mt. Washington 2005.

Photos coming soon.