Thanks Tet!! 

mariposai - though I was still too beat-up to run this year’s Seattle Marathon after trying to keep up to mega-larry and his entourage of 400-marathon goddess at the Wattle-Waddle Marathon on Thanksgiving morning, I was at the International District aid station (mile 3) when a pack of about ten singleted men   swooshed by in the 24-degree chill and, literally moments later, the scantily-clad leading woman. Temps warmed up when they broke out into the sun on the Lake Washington floating bridges at mile 5 and the rest of the way but the men's winner still finished with an icy moustache as if he’d been running up there with Erika instead of the supposedly temperate PNW..    
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No SM running for me didn’t mean I couldn’t joining the Marathon Maniac’s annual post race festivities at a nearby pizzarina with the Big Three founders (who authorized my membership in 2005 after Aamos forced me to admit I was one too after running that year’s SM and Ghost double), SLR (newly-entered into the 2015 Western States 100), Divechief’s superfast friend Mary from those days, etc. 
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holly - thanks for the “Red” Spicer jalepeno obit, and “hammering-by-rocks” quote. I’ll forward it on later this week with due credit when some things settle down and let you know.