Creek Road Runners (better-late-than-never) Bob Opila, Mark Deshon, Bob Bennett, Vic Kaliakin, Steve Tague, Charlie Riordan, and Bruce Hubbard salute the new year 2006.
 

The Iditarod was in full land mode this year at Fair Hill, as we passed a small team of huskies with musher. There was a lot of early jostling for position, with Bob Bennett pressing for an early lead just past Oprah’s. Just after the group had finally reformed, Mark Deshon took a necessary nature break and then worked hard to catch up. As usual, the hill strung everyone out, after which Charlie Riordan and Steve Tague (as part of a bike-run-bike biathlon from home) had taken the lead for good.

While enjoying the post-run Munchkins™, mega-distance man Bob Opila finished, having started at the wrong parking lot, a la Steve Goodwin (see the 2002 run). We gave him a few of the goodies, as he was catching his breath, and subsequently gave him a ride back to his car. ’Twas the least we could do for the seventh man’s nearly seven-mile effort on this seventh annual run.

So important is this event that Bob Bennett not only cut his vacation in Akron short by a day but, as a result, had to purchase a plane ticket for his wife to return a day later. That’s sacrifice!

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