P.S. to Fatty: I am so sorry, I sometimes fall behind when life happens and binge read your blog (I read everything, but maybe a couple of weeks later). I missed the 100 MON kick off. So happy you reopened it today — I snuck in. To answer your questions from a few days ago, I had not planned to enter it this year, for two reasons: one, I am training for a half marathon in November. Two, I have done it three years in a row, and because it always sells out, I wanted to give someone else a chance. I figured I’d do a bandit 10 MON, with a donation to Camp Kesem. However, I’m pleased and proud to be doing my fourth straight 100 MON, although it will have to wait until after the running business takes a back seat.

I admit I was a bit disappointed that you didn’t publish any of my race reports, but not disappointed enough to find a tiny corner of the internet to share it with my own family and friends. If I got my 2014 report up, would you want to link to it? That might give me the push to get it done.

A couple years ago when I raced Lotoja I was in the 5th wave of the Cat 5 men. We were racing quickly coming up right behind the women’s pack when all of a sudden all the women stopped suddenly at the same spot on the road you described. Many remained in the middle of the road holding bikes for those that were doing their business on the side of the road. I will say that it was quite a show seeing all those women drop their shorts in unison.

However, that was actually a pretty scary moment for us because there were cars coming down the opposite side of the road and it wasn’t easy to get a whole group of men barreling down the road to stop that quickly. Someone needs to announce that neutral pee break tradition to the cat 5 men before the start of the race.