"Well, that was too easy." With a seeming sense of disappointment, she forced the pliars onto the opposite tooth. A second wrenching motion, but to no avail. A third, and still nothing. "This is more like it!" she smiled, with a hint of saliva on her lips. She pressed closer to me and reset the pliars onto the tooth with one hand, the other hand pressing into my face for leverage. A feeling of enormous pressure flowed thru my jaw as she worked the tooth back and forth without success. "Now we're hot!" She lifted her bare foot, brought it down against my chest, placed both hands on the pliars, took a full breath, and pulled with everything she had. "Come on!! COME ON!!" she screamed, wrenching the tooth back and forth, back and forth. A sudden crunching and ripping noise rewarded her to screams of "YES! YES! OH GOD, YES!" as the tooth exploded outwards and darkness enveloped me. The darkness slowly turned into a red haze of distant familiarity, and I was aware of her dusky breathing in my ear. "Was it good for you too?"
Ok, back to race news. Jaime S. obviously had a good day, despite starting almost two minutes behind the rest of the pack. Technically his time was 26:03, but since he came in first place anyway...
On the women's side, Aileen Mason, otherwise known as the Bane of Pizza Thievery Everywhere, continues to dominate.
Men's Open ==================================================== 1 Jaime Sarkesian 24:03 ** 2 Mark Winter 27:05 3 Peter Terhune 28:13 4 Billy West 28:36 5 Greg Hammond 29:07 6 Doug Peterson 29:24 7 Mike Menoogian 31:29 8 Bob Eastman 31:39 9 Carl Something 32:59 10 Alexander Walan 33:30 11 Jake Jacobson 33:32 12 Ed O'Connor 33:57 13 Shawn Boland 35:50 14 Shawn Lynch 39:17 15 Greg Menounos 40:01 16 Tom Hagerty 41:09 17 Dave Brno 41:25 Men's Masters ==================================================== 1 Jorge Espada 26:05 2 Steve Burton 26:07 3 Mark Hemenway 26:29 4 Dudley Moulton 30:00 PR!! 5 Dave McLean 31:37 Happy Birthday!! 6 Kevin Mucci 33:24 7 Wayne Ramsey 35:15 8 Brian Poli 35:35 9 Bernie Dolan 39:06 10 Chuck Powers 40:05 Women's Open ==================================================== 1 Aileen Mason 29:17 2 Holly Taylor 33:06 3 Maureen Thieson 33:09 4 Mary Lee Dempsey 33:56 5 Althea Chen 34:45 6 Rachel Evans 35:16 7 Nanci Macri 36:15 8 Kristin Stilt 38:28 9 Stephanie Schroot 39:15 10 Ellen Parker 40:02 11 Kelly Okamoto 40:06 12 Heather Kispert 41:23