By my own dubious,\u00a0non-scientific calculations, the merry band of Red Liners ran circa 250 miles this year in various bursts and 100, 200, 400, 800 meters and up and down hills.\u00a0 We ran our warm up lap over 50 times and never once did a\u00a0side stradle\u00a0hop or a merkin.\u00a0 We ran up to Carolina, up to Jersey and sometimes all the way up to Mozelles which never\u00a0seemed to be open when we got there.\u00a0 We ran the lights of downtown and the hills of outer buena vista and the west end.<\/p>\n
\n
We prayed for wives and children and parents.\u00a0 We prayed for surgeries, tragedies and triumphs alike.\u00a0 We prayed to be better fathers and husbands and bosses and workers and leaders.\u00a0 \u00a0We prayed for peace and courage and wisdom.\u00a0 We learned the hills dont get any flatter, but the legs and lungs just get better at carrying you to the top.\u00a0 We sang a song of gratitude, and commitment, and community each time we ran in circles in the pre-dawn darkness.<\/p>\n
\n
Without further ado, Here are the 2025 Redline Class superlatives.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Chomper as Site Q emeritus gallantly led the charge in the first half of the year.\u00a0 He gets the Award for most random location leading us in a workout up the beautiful rolling hills of the Publix parking lot.<\/p>\n
\n
Suede gets the award for best parking job for the time he double parked in the road and joined the warm up lap<\/p>\n
\n
Mongoose gets the award for most school spirit<\/p>\n
\n
Winklevoss the most likely to query the Q’s instructions award.<\/p>\n
\n
Balco gets the award for most times parking at Bobby Boi but never once bringing coffee and pastries for the PAX<\/p>\n
\n
Doublewide gets the Most Dystopian Q Award for offering himself as the human fox\/tribute to be hunted down.<\/p>\n
\n
Tax Break and Interference tied for the Pure Speed award – next week 100m head to head to decide the winner<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Beverley wins the Redline is Just My Warm up Award<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Hitman gets the Creeper Award for always creeping out of the bushes just as we begin the warmup lap<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Resistor gets the most likely to warm up before the warm up lap award<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Pinky gets the award for most workouts nearly completed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Padre gets the fastest Priest award.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Edge gets the award for most quarterback pressures<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Greenspan gets the Explorers Award for leading us through random parts of the West End<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Frostbite wins the the most likely to set off too fast on the opening lap award<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Wobegon the most pleasantly surprised to like redline award<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Zephyr gets the award for the coolest Redline name<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Rose gets the best headwear award.<\/p>\n
\n
Pollster gets the One who got away Award<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Palin gets the award for most annoying flashlight<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Turnover gets the award for leading us in the most professional looking warm up of the year<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There are countless others who joined us – my site Q records have been found lacking for which I apologize – but for all you nameless, faceless runners I salute you.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Each time I pull in to a dark\u00a0parking lot\u00a0at 5:30am\u00a0Im slightly\u00a0bemused and grateful that there are always a few other\u00a0idiots already there waiting for\u00a0me.\u00a0 For 2026 I hope more of you join us at Redline – we take all speeds,\u00a0shapes and sizes.\u00a0 Running intervals and hills is not as bad as it sounds, and actually it is rather great.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
See you out there in 2026. Onwards and upwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By my own dubious,\u00a0non-scientific calculations, the merry band of Red Liners ran circa 250 miles this year in various bursts and 100, 200, 400, 800 meters and up and down hills.\u00a0 We ran our warm up lap over 50 times and never once did a\u00a0side stradle\u00a0hop or a merkin.\u00a0 We ran up to Carolina, up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redline"],"acf":{"q":"Wooly Bugger","date":"Every Tuesday, 2025","pax":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26200,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196\/revisions\/26200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}