Chuck Lewis: accounts of C4P....... It was a fun weekend... It was an eye opener as to what it's like to do multiple back-to-back long runs. I never have done anything like this before…

Just a few words of warning, "Don't let Barb lead on the downhills and watch out for the short guy (Mitch) on the uphills!""…

Welp, when we left our hometown of Ridgecrest Thursday afternoon sporting our great looking Bubba teeth we were in rare form. Seven crazy Ridgecrest runners, showed up at La Jolla Canyon in Pt. Mugu State Park to start off our 4 days of roaming the mountains and valleys of Ventura County:  Chris Rios, Chuck Lewis, Andrew Mitchell, Randy Klassen, Mark McKinney, Barbee May Miller and Billy Bob (that's me) Miller.

The beginning of our four play, Oops I meant four day wild adventure was about to begin. We were greeted by old and new found friends followed by a seven mile warm up dinner run (Chuck & Carol Jones joined us later that evening for dinner). Dinner was great (Mexican) we all received our goodie bags with cool pull over C4P sweaters (Patagonia), either a pair of shorts or suspendered shorts made by Teva and a few of Chris Scott’s (He's the race director) crap including his junk mail, soap and shampoo from his past stays at some Hotels. We headed back to the Motel 6 and caught a few winks before Fridays 50 miler.

The morning was great, no wind or rain, but the first hill (10 miles up) was a bit muddy from a downpour the prior week. Mark and Chuck Jones were the Ridgecrest hero's completing the whole course, Barbee May and Billy Bob (that's me) did 42 miles, the rest of the gang Mitch, Randy, Chris and Chuck Lewis did 32 miles, and Carol enjoyed her hike through the mud.

Dinner was great (Veggie place); Chris Scott gave us our official C4P t-shirts and read out our marching orders for Saturday’s 40 mile run. We drug ourselves back to Motel 6 and slept for 2 hours, or at least that's what it seemed like.

The morning was beautiful and the afternoon warmed up a bit in the canyons, but in a good kind of way. The two Chucks completed the whole enchilada, Mark did a fast 38, Barbee May did 31, Mitch and Chris did 28, and Carol did approx. 20 or so. Billy Bob (the whine bag) hobbled around the course with a map and compass circum navigating 20 miles with a backpack full of beer and a big smile on his face.

The dinner for the night consisted of Italian cuisine. All runners were harassed and teased by Chris Scott (we loved it). The girls received butterfly and dragonfly things to put in their hair so they'd look real purty for Sundays 30 mile run, Billy Bob won a CD for singing the best song of the night, and we all wore our C4P suspendered shorts at Chris Scott’s request.

Mother nature just couldn't hold back  Sunday morning, the wind and the rain was so bad that I was amazed that anyone in their right mind would show up much less run 30 miles. The two amazing Chucks kicked major butt by finishing the whole course in some fine fashion, Chris and Randy hung tough with about 9 miles, and Mark, Barbee May and Billy Bob (that's me) finished in time for the party (probably covering about 2 miles in the mud, the blood and the beer), Mitch started.

The party was a wet one. Tarps were hung, but it didn't help much, and no one really seemed to mind. What a great event, Chris Scott and all of the JABOYS (Just a bunch of yahoos) took care of our every need throughout the weekend. If any of our club members are interested in next year’s event I'd highly recommend it. You can't beat the price, $125.00 for all the great stuff, dinner 3 nights in a different restaurant, bar-b-q on Sunday, and just about all the running you can stand, not to mention lots and lots of FUN!!!!

Connie Anderson 60 DNF, Kolega Randall 33 DNF, Jann Philpott 51 DNF, Dinha Renfore 52 DNF, Antonia Diamond 50+ DNF, Joe Oliver 58 DNF, Michael Schwerin 56 DNFPaul Weinholm 34 DNF