Now we freely admit, in the TA's house this question normally accompanies the discovery of empty packets and trails of crumbs, but that's our problem and to be honest, in the quest for a light bike, cutting cookies would be a lot cheaper than going overboard on crabon fribé tube-sets and titanium bolts. Not that a full-on crabon frame hung with a groupset milled from exotic metals and held in place with bolts made from even more exotic metals wouldn't be cool, but ultimately, putting the kibosh on a$20/week biscuit habit would be a more economical choice. ITTET and all.
Rather, we are talking about Cookie McKilt, the prize in the Cookie Counter/Tartan Tally smackdown. Ron McScotch gave Cookie a new home, which we understand to be full of bacon, and indeed pork-based breakfast items of many kinds.
Whilst famously addicted to chocolate chip cookies, one suspects breakfast biscuits of the Southern style are becoming part of Cookie's diet.
Back to the Tally. To remind you, the end-of-season numbers looked like this;
Ron won the match on absolute numbers, with 38 events (up to and including the Wine Run on the morning of the banquet) vs. Mark's 22 events. This 22 included two RDing gigs (DILB and Shubie-Doobie).
We always said we would not discriminate between 5Ks and Ironman (or beyond). This turned out not to be an issue as they were pretty even in the events they took on; Ron raced over distances from 5 km to 287 km, Mark from 5 km to 224 km. If we took into account distance traveled, well Ron came out with 1436.6 kms (give or take) with Mark at 1050 km. Score another one for the kilt. However, dividing by the number of races (see note below the table), then Mark travelled 52.3 kms per event, whilst Ron travelled on average 37.8 km. In other words, Mark did the equivalent of an Ultramarathon each time out of the gate, whilst Ron "only" managed three miles short of a full marathon each time he pinned on a number. So Mark won that one and was duly awarded a Cookie Monster tuque, to accompany him on his ski-marathons (and beyond).
By now the obvious question has presented itself and we know your brows are furrowing as you try to figure out how you did last year. Let us start the ball rolling. Since disposing of a horribly fast 5K (for us) on Boxing Day, we were able to finally do the math and finished the year with 22 events, from 5K to the marathon for a total of 452 km. That's all races; running, dus, tris, bike-races, anything with a chip or a bib-number or a plate-number.
Looks like three peaks; one at 10K for 10Ks and cyclocross (8 races of various types), another at the half-marathon (three halfs) and a third at the marathon (three fulls and the duathlons were all about this long too). This averages out at 20.5 km per race, or about a half-marathon each time we were handed a handful of safety-pins or a chip, with the 5Ks cancelling out the marathons. Sounds about right.
As for Cookie, we were nowhere close. But we still have our knees (well kinda), so it's all swings-and-roundabouts.
So tell us, how did you do? Answers; # races, total kms and average kms on the right please. Again, that's any race in any discipline; so long as there was a bib, plate, chip or something "official" (a cat#6 sprint over the MacDonald Bridge on the morning commute doesn't count). The fields are independent, so you'll have to tell us all three. They are also anonymous, so don't worry.
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