Guest Post by The Seed (Jeff Kozak)
Top 10 Reasons Why Andy Jones-Wilkins Should Take His Shot At The Grand Slam Record in 2011:
10. He’s “acquired” (as in prostituted himself) enough sponsor connections over the past several years to have a unique combination of them with zero product re-use for each race.
9. Age will catch up to him eventually…just not soon enough to have much, if any, impact on the 10 Year Bet as L.B. had hoped.
8. He’s got about as much of a chance of making a name(as if he needs more) for himself in races where the two zeroes that normally follow the 1 are removed as the author of this post did of escaping his first Oregon Boys-hosted Michigan Bluff training camp experience WITHOUT a nickname.
7. His nicknames are more “household” than his real name, which contains too many hyphens anyway, and he has enough of them to go by a unique one at each race as well.
6. He should have a much easier time than most convincing his family that crewing their summer away for him will be a great way to spend quality time together.
5. One of his recent blog posts suggests that he is drifting runner-less after his very successful summer as it contains the phrase “I am not training for anything,” an obviously very thinly-veiled cry for help and suggestions with it’s being proclaimed in such a popular public running forum.
4. Ohhhh, to think of the fun he will have this winter with Excel, spread-sheeting split times like a madman…split times that are mostly meaningless to the rest of us. “Let’s see…if I run :41.33 from the 50 mile spring to the tuning fork tree, it could set me up nicely for a sub-2:37.44 Cal Street but then again it might make it difficult to manage a 2:57.18 Chinscraper which would get me to the the far pillar of the I-80 overpass 4:37 off pace for reaching the 3rd step up to the Brighton Lodge A.S. in 17:06.38”.
3. He’s already earned (the hard way) his spot in the exclusive Big Dance club and, as unthinkable as it may seem now, one of these years he will once again have to experience the manic-depressive moods swings of lottery season which culminate on the first Saturday of December with either A) a euphoric declaration that “Today is the first day of my build-up to States” followed by a run much longer than necessary for a race still 7 months away or B) a trip to the pharmacist to buy $370 worth of Prozac.
2. The G.S. record holder, until this year’s Wasatch, most likely (although I have no proof) also set the more obscure but nonetheless noteworthy record of “most beers drank during a G.S. attempt”…a number that would undoubtedly be crushed like an aluminum can by Three Names.
And, the NUMBER ONE reason why AJW should take his shot at the G.S. record next year:
Isn’t it obvious? The guy once referred to as “The Bridesmaid” in countless race reports has a legitimate shot at sub-75 (one helluvalot better shot than sub-5 at Hayward Field anyway…)
11. He’ll have a trusted, local pacer to take him to the finish of the final race of the slam.
@Bryon Powell, The real question though is ‘Does The Jiz laminate the split time sheets for all of his pacers, or just his most trusted?’
@Koz, the first rule about Jiz pacing is you don’t talk about Jiz pacing.
The second rule about Jiz pacing IS YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT JIZ PACING.
@MonkeyBoy, Thanks Monkeyboy, I stand erected. However, all I know is that if I was pacing someone named The Jiz I would demand that my split sheets were laminated.
That is an outstanding post! I may just have to try this Slam thing (unless I get into Hardrock).
@AJW, What in the world does Hardrock have to do with your ability to slam next year? You can run Hardrock on two week’s rest.
@AJW, Glad you enjoyed it Mr. Jones-Jizzle Wizzle-Three Names-Tan Mitts-The Jiz-Wilkins. I figured you would; it is, afterall, about you. You could add Hardrock to the list, still go sub-75 for the original 4 and call it the Jizzle Wizzle-Wham-Bam-Thank You-Slam. Besides, that’s still only 5. Didn’t your East Coast drinking and puking bro do 6 in one summer? Six-packs, six one hundreds…has a sweetly subtle symmetry to it, eh?
Perhaps it’s just age, but I had a hard time following the logic of number 8.
The Seed can write a great post.
@SLF, what do you expect? Seed’s dad needed help writing his books, no?
@Craig,When you’ve got a picture of yourself standing at one of the poles naked with a globe hiding your wanker, who cares about the writing? Sex sells my babies…
@SLF, I had zero chance of leaving M.B. last spring without a nickname; The Jiz has zero chance of making a name for himself as a miler; The Jiz is training for a mile at Hayward in November against another ultrarunner-wannabe-miler when it is obvious he should be focusing on other things…what’s so hard to follow? I don’t think it’s age SLF…I’m thinkin’ you need to stop smokin’ that backwoods Oregon ibuprofen.