Cody’s Wednesday Night – A Respite From The Rain

Susan Keezer and Allison Rourke, Kathie Moskal in back and below

We’ve certainly had our share of rain this week, but as tough Wicked runners a little rain is not going to scare us off from getting out there and “doing our thing.” Wednesday night, however, posed a bit of a dilemma for this particular runner. Usually, I would head over to Lynn Woods, but with the torrential downpours and memories of being out on the trails in thunderstorms, I thought it best to skip the Woods this week. Lo and behold, however, around 6:30 PM the rains let up, and living very close to the start of the Danvers Fun Run, I decided to jog over there. I hadn’t run this particular race for a while, and having read that a lot of our newer members were going to be there, I was interested in seeing them. It was great to see Kathie Moskal, Susan Keezer, Alison Rourke, Annie Willis, Nicky Blumberg, Eileen Dunn, and Billy Prentiss. Check out the results at Danvers 5K Slightly Damp Run. Congratulations to Annie Willis for finishing second place overall. As it claims to be, it was a “fun” run and the nice cold beer at the finish always makes the “journey” much more rewarding.

Tim Short, get back to Danvers and reclaim your title!!!!

Congratulations to Rich Tomlins and Billy Prentiss who both rain in the rain last night in Reading at the FORR 5K. Out of 59 runners, Rich finished 7th overall, 2nd in his age group, with a time of 18:17. Billy finished 14th overall, 1st in his age group, with a time of 20:30. That’s 4 first place finishes in a row for Billy!

Special recognition to all those runners (and there were a lot!) who showed up last night at Forest River for the Toomey Clinic. One never knows what the weather conditions might be on the day of the big race, so running last night in those torrential downpours certainly proved to all who participated, “We can do it! We are Wicked!”

Belated congratulations to Beth O’Grady and Doug Bollen who traveled to Stowe, Vermont, last Sunday to run in the Stowe 8 Miler. Check out their times under Race Results.

Finally, have you noticed we are approaching number 100 for our membership? How exciting! Enjoy the weekend. It’s supposed to be a nice one.