Another Streaker and Hybrid World Record!

Our 17th straight year at Ocen City, New Jersey is predicated on the running of the Sea Isle City Beach Run.  It occurs on the first or second Saturday in August depending on the timing of high tide, because the miserable run is mostly on the beach.  With soft sand, rock jetties, and the wind in your face both directions, it is seriously worse than any marathon I've run.  I don't even bother anymore, but Barb Black soldiers on, this time for her 17th straight.  That has taken quite a bit of magic, defeating many obstacles no one else could have triumphed over. I'm not kidding either.

While Ron "Bile" (Bee Lay) Ferguson isn't a PSU Track Alumni, he certainly has put up with many of us over the years.  We may even entice him to join the group someday. I hear he can putt.  Ron's streak at the race would be 30-something years if it hadn't been for his recent open-heart surgery!  The implantation of a cow heart valve hasn't slowed him up much and we conclude that this year's effort is a world record for such hybrid humans of his age group.  Let someone else convince us otherwise.  He even posed as L. Viren at a tune-up Fun Run earlier in the week. 

While milling about Sea Isle city during the race, I saw many PSU Track shirts but didn't get to talk to anyone.  The reach and scope of the PSU Track community seems to be expanding, as this was the largest number of PSU Track enthusiasts I've seen "down the shore" in those 17 years.