Happy 10th Anni-WUS-ary

WUS celebrates 10 years of drinking beer, not getting arrested, and fitting in some running in there

The Woodley Ultra Society running club has survived since 2006, owing to the strength of its core principle: trail running should be fun.  And preferably combined with tasty beverages and gooey pizza, in an establishment where the staff knows us well enough to not care that we stink.

Recognizing the importance of beverages in the history of WUS, we celebrated the tin anniversary with a Beer Mile, trail-style.  Kerry O. and Kirstin attended as the sole representatives of the original WUS group, which has mostly scattered to other nationally recognized trail running meccas like Bend, Frisco, and….Alexandria.

The high turnover of WUSsies means that newcomers are often the lifeblood of the club, and it was fitting that the Mile winners were both newbies.  Trevor B., WUS’s latest pride and joy, cruised to victory in the men’s race, even besting the JLD Donut King.

The fact that Sheila hasn’t WUSsed in a year appeared to be no limitation during her dominating victory in the women’s race.  But the Beer Mile is a race where the losers and winners pretty much get the same prize at the end: the chance to see Martha totally blasted out her mind.

 

Results

Trevor	8:17 – mic drop
JLD	10:02 – so tantalizing close to being Donut/Beer double champ, maybe if he WUSed more
Sheila	11:15 – queen of suds
Dr. JJ	11:40 – winner, PhD category
WHTom	11:53 – winner, best effort to make it to a Beer Mile
Marmot	13:19 – winner, didn’t poop my pants!
JoCo	18:21 – winner, best Beer Mile blowup
O’Sullivans	21:31 – winners!  always.  inscribed in the WUS rulebook
Kir and Ma Walcott	26:14:00 - first ma!
Brienne	DNF – but brought tasty snacks
Angie	DNF – but performed a vital task that unfortunately cannot be credited due to the tenuous nature of Angie’s employment
Liana	DNS – best reason for not doing a Beer Mile
Jabooter	DNS - best nickname
Aras	DNS - best performance by a toddler in what must have seemed a horror movie of bright lights and belching zombies
Momma Julian	DNS - best performance in soothing a toddler trapped inside a horror movie
Aaron	DNS – points points points!  for timing….for tolerating the drunk marmot….for finding Trevor’s wallet
Sarah and Scott	DNS – best visual depiction of a marmot

As commemoration of 10 years of WUSsies, we stretched our memories to come up with a top-10 list of WUS lore:

10.  Neal dropping a deuce in the fancy Georgetown house’s backyard in the final stretch of the Donut Run.

9.  The WUS when Aaron & co tried their best not to interuptus the coitus that was brazenly occurring along our WUS route.

8.  ‘I would run the s%*& out of that hill’ – PHT 2015

 

7.  The night Tom C. tried to get Matt to pass him the damn pepper.

6.  The Plague of Frogs WUS.

5.  The WUS when Joe and Michele were Uh, Just Looking at These Rocks Over Here.

4.  The moment when Nancy from the Track faceplanted over the final chain on the Glover Archibald Trail.  Trail fairies everywhere were extinguished in sorrow.

3.  Neal and Bobby collapsed beside each other at the finish line of the most Epic Beer Mile WUS.

2.  The surreal snowfall WUS when we came across a man with a long white beard and no shoes riding a white horse bareback while carrying a staff.

1. The time that Sean swapped his slightly-less-sweat-drenched shirt for Keith’s at CPBG so that Keith could keep macking unsuccessfully on waitress Kathleen.