A message from the founding fathers!! Berlin 2008 update

King Clem thrown off his thrown! Long live the emperor Gil!!!

It is only 3 days ago that our little  contingent of premier SLG athletes left for Berlin. Again they were determined to make SLG running history at the 2008 Berlin Marathon.  While the official trip report will surely follow shortly here the board decided to release an interim update of this highly competitive race to the SLG community after receiving phone calls throughout the day.  We do feel sorry for the overall winner of the 2008 Berlin Marathon, since his new world record of 2:03:59 was clearly overshadowed by the dramatic outcome of this years race for the CMIYC trophy.  Here are the results...

Gil 03:42:09 - The King of Kings and Queens

Clem 03:46:06

Lief  04:17:08

Dora 04:28:30

Another awesome performance by all SLGers!!! Congrats to all of you and congrats to the new emperor of SLG - Gil Perrone!

Sr.LG

A slight name change, proposed by Mike and hopefully a temporary situation. Just to let you know that next Sunday, September 28th, all the SLG members who are running the Berlin marathon will be older than 50. So Mike thought it would be apporpriate to call us Sr. (for Senior)LG for this event.
Senior or not, we have left the thirty-somethings and the hardly 41-ers in the dust. The "old" runners will be vying for the "CMIYC" trophy and more importantly, will defend the SLG colors in Europe.
A bit sad but true... and hopefully this situation will be reversed. In the meantime, we are all accepting good wishes and good luck messages from our younger SLG members, either via this blog or to the participants personally.
And if anybody needs a reminder who is running, here is the (too) short list :
1/ Clem, supercoach and defending King of SLG
2/ Gil, the deposed King
3/ Lief, former yet eternal Queen of SLG
4/ Dora, SLG-er with still the best legs after all these years
5/ And to add to our paltry group, Gil's sister Gloria will be joining the pack.
Mike the Flyer did point out that if Gloria would be interested in joining SLG, we would have to consider very carefully whether SLG can manage another Perrone!. Quick thinking Mike. This will be even harder to decide since the founding fathers will not be present for the yearly boardmeeting.
And now, we are keeping our eyes peeled for good luck wishes streaming in!
Coach