YHC is also the much belated. And yes, I’m writing this while fartsacking the Skinny.
On May 12, 2018 the PAX gathered at Audubon Park to clown car out to Elmwood for the Huey P. Long Bridge 5K. Uptown PAX don’t travel well so we like strength in numbers. T claps to Tinkles for driving.
After collecting our race bibs, doing a warm up jog, and getting buzzed by a drone filming the events, the runners were ready. It was hot and 1300+ runners pressed in. Mulligan, Tinkles and El Guapo moved to the front where they could position to lead the scrum. The gun sounded and we were off. A quick mosey through the Elmwood office park and then up.
“The Huey P. Long is a cantilevered steel through truss bridge that carries a two-track railroad line over the Mississippi River at mile 106.1 with three lanes of US 90 on each side of the central tracks…. In 2014, a writer in The New Yorker described the bridge as “a structure so vaulting and high that it seems to extend from one white, towering Gulf Coast cloud to the next.” Thank you Wikipedia.
And so we reached for the clouds.
Cashbar kept a brutal pace charging up the hill and YHC had to skip taking landscape photos from the top. At the finish line in Bridge City, we reassembled. Mulligan and Guapo had won their respective divisions and the entire PAX finished in 30’47”. YHC was the six. We collected our t-shirts and jambalaya and took the shuttle bus back to Elmwood.
Glad to run this one with the F3 Pax and my 2.0.
#GeauxOverIt
