Just so you know I’m putting myself out there as well, I’m pleased to report that I have completed my FLRC Challenge today, as did Holly Folsom (@holly-folsom). We hiked the Pseudo Skunk Cabbage course on a cool but sunny morning with the amiable company of Karen Ingall (@kag22) and Mickie Sanders-Jauquet (@mickiejauquet), who had to go run Cornell Botanic Gardens a couple of times afterward to shake out her legs from the hiking pace. Big thanks to all three of them for making the three and a half hours pass by so quickly in conversation that I was almost surprised when we finished at the Ellis Hollow Community Center.
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Kudos to Dave Kania (@Dave_K), co-race director for Super Frosty Loomis and Monster Marathon, who dropped a speedy 5:48 mile on the East Hill Rec Way today to finish off his FLRC Challenge! That’s 72 people in, with 8 more who just have 1 or 2 courses left.
Congratulations to Mark Jauquet, who has been sitting on a pile of FLRC Challenge course completions associated with a “one-and-done” strategy and just today found the time to enter them into Webscorer! @mickiejauquet had told me that Mark had run all the courses, so I was hoping he’d enter them soon—this isn’t a surprise.
And we have one more! Kudos to Verity Platt (@veritymo) for completing her FLRC Challenge, adopting the classic one-and-done strategy and leaving the easiest course for last, a sprightly East Hill Rec Way.
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Thank you Adam! And Happy Holidays everyone!
And two more completions today—congratulations to Sooyoung Vandemark and Nathan Korson, who finished their tenth course each by running Pseudo Skunk Cabbage together this afternoon. Which I can confirm in person, since we happened to meet and cheered for them on the corner of Rt. 79 and Ellis Hollow Road on our way out to my parents’ house. (It seemed likely that two people running together on Rt. 79 in that spot would be doing the Challenge, and we were right.)
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Kudos and apologies to Sarah Ridenour (@gumbywhale) and Yinghua Wang (@ying), both of whom completed their ten FLRC Challenge courses recently, but whose Danby Down & Dirty results got stuck in the mud. I’ve extracted them and tickled Webscorer, so Sarah and Ying are now listed as our 77th and 78th finishers on the Completions page. Four more to hit our 50% completion rate!
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No worry Adam, I am excited I finally finished the 2021 challenge. I really appreciate the chance to run with FLRC, I benefited a lot, mentally more perservant, physically more strong.
Looking forward to the 2022 events, in particular the trail circuit series.
Wish you and FLRC a healthy and promising 2022!
Ying
Plenty of the day left, folks! Congrats to Aaron Hicks (@aaronholly), Margaret Frank (@Margaret_Frank), and new Finger Lakes 50s co-race director Nichole Cappadora (@nichole-cappadora) for completing the FLRC Challenge yesterday. Aaron ran Pseudo Skunk, Margaret laid down the second-fastest women’s time on the South Hill Rec Way (which catapulted her into second place in Most Points for women too!), and Nichole braved Forest Frolic. The weather was great for this—at about 40 and cloudy, but some of the trails were pretty muddy.
Today is all you have left—Webscorer will automatically stop accepting results at 11:59 PM.
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I’m on my way to the Psuedo Skunk course to finish now! Probably will be finishing right before the group run. Thanks to you, Adam, for the continued pushing/encouraging emails. Nothing like a hard deadline to get my butt in gear!
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My “one and done” is now done! Did the Pseudo Skunk this afternoon and what nice weather to be finishing with–50 degrees and partly sunny. Not good for skiing, but I’ll take it for a half marathon on the roads. 
I came late to the Challenge, but it was a lot of fun to read Adam’s encouraging posts and reports of other folks, and to push myself to do more mileage than I usually do. Ramping up to a half was definitely not on my radar in mid-November when I signed on. Glad I did. Looking forward to 2022! Happy New Year!
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The night’s not over yet, but I think we might have ended up at 86 completions, thanks to the last-minute efforts of Rebecca Lambert (@rebeccamlambert), Mik Kern (@Mikhail_Kern), Iris Packman (@Iris), Jim Hodges (@jhodges117), and Dina Maxwell (@Dina_Maxwell)—congratulations to one and all!
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