If it's free ...

One of our former athletes, loyal alum Conor Shelley, had a great saying: "If it's free, it's me." Shelley never met a hotel continental breakfast that he didn't raid, loading up his backpack with boxes of Fruit Loops and Frosted Flakes (never anything healthy for the big man). Any buffet meal on campus always meant Conor would be loading up on bags of potato chips, water bottles, etc. Well, Shelley doesn't know our current team members, but his legacy continued on today's 9-miler in the sun. These boys pictured -- Graham, Elias, Jungle Jim -- were in the latter stages of the run, heading to North Field for some hard strides. As they ran through the Route 9 tunnel, there was some campus group handing out free (key word!) popsicles and ice cream. Fortunately, these guys had the good sense not to get ice cream before their strides (as far as I know!). Besides, popsicles travel better. Of course, the Old Man (me) had to hold their icy treats while they did their strides.

In other news! Elias' treasured dog, Chip, celebrated a birthday yesterday (age x7 unknown). Chip deserves a shout-out here because apparently he is an avid blog reader (again, according to Elias). There you go. Happy birthday, Chip.