A Minivan Called Desire: Part 1 - The Invitation

by Jon Waldron

It all started with Pat Moreton, of course, as so many memorable running experiences in the last few years have started with him. Pat moved to California two years ago, and got hooked up with a bunch of Bay-area runners who needed a couple of fast men to fill out their twelve-person team for the 1994 Hood-to-Coast Relay, a race that starts halfway to the summit of 11,000-foot Mount Hood, 50 miles east of Portland, Oregon, and finishes almost 200 miles to the west at the Pacific Ocean. Pat signed on, and sent out an electronic call for another CSU runner to join him. (more…)

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A Minivan Called Desire: Part 2

by Jon Waldron

Team Name Gridlock

After much debate, the team chose to compete under the name “Flying Buttresses,” a tribute to the club’s deep and abiding interest in Gothic Architecture…NOT! (more…)

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A Minivan Called Desire: Part 3 - The Start

by Jon Waldron

About 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon, August 25th, the Van One people packed themselves into Van One and the Van Two people packed themselves into Van Two, and both vans left the Komanecky’s and headed out to the Mountain. Traffic was heavy, and it took us a good 45 minutes before we intersected the race route about 35 miles West of the start. It was very strange to drive by runners whose teams had started hours before, who were by now 30 miles ahead of us, when we still had two hours to go before our start. Stranger still to realize that we would catch many of them before the next afternoon. (more…)

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A Minivan Called Desire: Part 4

by Jon Waldron

A Glitch in Time

Meanwhile, Pat Moreton had found a dreary and depressing vacant lot near the van exchange zone where the team could get an hour of sleep. It had been slow navigating through Portland, and it wouldn’t be as much sleep as they wanted. They were all tired now, because they already had one race under their belts. (more…)

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A Minivan Called Desire: Part 5 - On the Beach

by Jon Waldron

After the race was over and after we had had our picture taken on the beach, we commenced a stiff walk to the hotel, about 8 blocks away, or maybe it was two blocks away and it felt like 8 blocks. The first order of business was to retrieve Van #2, which we had parked some further blocks away. (more…)

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