Ramble: Second Wind

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Scott Bauh’s Chilly Championship

In my recent ode to the running store Transports, I discussed the adidas Transports Racing Team and mentioned Scott Bauh’s win at the 2008 USATF Club Cross Country Championship. What I did not have space to include was what Scott told me via email about the race, held in blisteringly cold conditions in Spokane, Washington.

Scott isn’t the kind of person who complains about the weather. He’s a 61:30 half-marathoner, who amassed three national collegiate titles at Chico State and represented the US at the World Championships in track and field and cross country.

But I’ll let him explain the race in his own words:

“This was the coldest, most miserable race I've ever run, and the infamy of the race is brought up whenever I encounter other people that ran that day. Here's my interview after the race; my face is too numb to talk normally:

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“We had 6 runners there and 4 finished quite well, but 2 DNFed. I think a modest 5th runner would have put us…