Gandalf and Aragorn at the Barkley
Mar. 21st, 2024 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mildred_of_midgardThe awesome stories accumulate.
1. One runner came in from loop one, was a page short, went back out and got it, and came back in time to start loop 2 with a huge grin on his face!
No word on whether he skipped a book and had to go find it, or whether he dropped a page and it miraculously hadn't blown away (as happened to poor Guillaume in 2022).
I've always wondered what would happen if you got to the gate with a missing page and time to go back, and now I know!
ETA: Okay, I wrote that yesterday, and now I have details: It was in fact Guillaume, and what happened was he was going to quit at the gate, but he was encouraged to go back and look for the page he'd dropped. He went back and started asking every runner if they'd found his page. Someone had, gave it to him, and he finished the loop.
This is AMAZING. All the more so because of that 2022 year when he had to drop because one of his pages blew away. Guillaume, that sounds like a problem you should solve!
(2022 was also the infamous year John Kelly dropped his belt bag with his pages in it, and only found it after 3 hours, costing him the time he needed to finish.)
2. In the first loop (and often after), the official tweeter only gives us confusing descriptions of runners, so you have no idea who's who. This year's descriptions included "Guy with awesome glasses," "guy with very daring shorts," and other gems. My favorite tweet, though, was when he said
"A guy with a gray beard and a muscular guy with tree trunk legs came through the fire tower at 12:55." and somebody replied, "Gandalf and Aragorn?"
ROFL!
Obligatory use of my Aragorn icon for this one.
(For those of you who started following me 10 years ago for the Tolkien scholarship; yes, Aragorn is canonically lean and it's more likely Boromir who had the tree trunk legs. Still funny.)
1. One runner came in from loop one, was a page short, went back out and got it, and came back in time to start loop 2 with a huge grin on his face!
No word on whether he skipped a book and had to go find it, or whether he dropped a page and it miraculously hadn't blown away (as happened to poor Guillaume in 2022).
I've always wondered what would happen if you got to the gate with a missing page and time to go back, and now I know!
ETA: Okay, I wrote that yesterday, and now I have details: It was in fact Guillaume, and what happened was he was going to quit at the gate, but he was encouraged to go back and look for the page he'd dropped. He went back and started asking every runner if they'd found his page. Someone had, gave it to him, and he finished the loop.
This is AMAZING. All the more so because of that 2022 year when he had to drop because one of his pages blew away. Guillaume, that sounds like a problem you should solve!
(2022 was also the infamous year John Kelly dropped his belt bag with his pages in it, and only found it after 3 hours, costing him the time he needed to finish.)
2. In the first loop (and often after), the official tweeter only gives us confusing descriptions of runners, so you have no idea who's who. This year's descriptions included "Guy with awesome glasses," "guy with very daring shorts," and other gems. My favorite tweet, though, was when he said
"A guy with a gray beard and a muscular guy with tree trunk legs came through the fire tower at 12:55." and somebody replied, "Gandalf and Aragorn?"
ROFL!
Obligatory use of my Aragorn icon for this one.
(For those of you who started following me 10 years ago for the Tolkien scholarship; yes, Aragorn is canonically lean and it's more likely Boromir who had the tree trunk legs. Still funny.)
