The Seconds Bank
O.K. let’s count the ways that Matt Curran, one second off his p.r. on Mt. Washington in 2003, could have made up those two seconds:
- He could have cut the corner like Dave Dunham told him to and
Peter got yelled at for doing. - He could have had one bagel less and lightened his load.
- He could have had one bagel more and increased his octane.
- He could have drafted two seconds longer on John.
- He could have submerged himself in the start line stream 30
seconds longer or 30 seconds shorter, whichever would have worked. - He could have slid into the finish line as if it were second
base, spiking the timer.
You get the idea. To prevent such a thing ever repeating itself
there will be established next year the Matt Curran Memorial Seconds Bank.
Each Team Gloucester runner will donate 10 seconds of his or her time to the bank, totaling 70 to 90 seconds. That time will be available to any Team
Gloucester runner who otherwise would spend the entire year pissing and
moaning about what might have been.
Race Director Bob Teschek has endorsed the Seconds Bank with these stipulations:
- he get no begging letters from Curran for three years about anything
- that Curran not stiff him again on his homemade tortilla tacos which he didn’t this time offer to share with Teschek who is well known to love them.
