Flashback Friday: Hustle Edition

Fun fact: “Hustle up the Hancock” is a cool name for a race up the almost 100 flights of stairs in Chicago’s John Hancock Center.

Other fun fact: “The Social Climbers” is the coolest Hustle up the Hancock team name ever invented by a team captain named Jake and emblazoned in a custom design on the team’s T-shirts.

Fact: Climbing almost 100 flights of stairs on a freezing February morning is really not all that fun.

Other fact: Though is feels like 700 hours of gasping and quad-screaming, the climb actually lasts only 20ish minutes.

One more fact: John Hancock Insurance removed its name from the John Hancock Center in February 2018, leaving the building with the stirring—and instantly memorable—name 875 North Michigan Avenue ... and this year causing Hustle Up the Hancock to be renamed the less alliterative but more badass Hustle Chicago.

FACT:

You eat 28 spiders in your sleep each calendar year. Always 28. If you’ve eaten only 3 so far in 2018, good luck falling asleep tonight.

First of all, 10:58 pace!

That’s freaking FAST for me. But it’s probably because it was so damn dark during our entire run that we couldn’t see how fast we were going. #Physics!

Second of all, did I mention it was dark out? Because IT WAS FREAKING DARK.

(you: How dark was it?)

It was so dark that once we got on the trail where there were no street lights WE AND I AM NOT EXAGGERATING HERE COULD BARELY SEE THE TRAIL. Which, thankfully is so straight (you: How straight is it?) it’s so straight that it actually makes Rob look gay. (you: But doesn’t he love show tunes?) (Rob: Shut up.)

It was also so dark (you: How also was it so dark?) that we had to take our post-run selfie staring into a street light, but not in a dramatic theatrical fashion because we’re dudes (you: Really?) (us: Shut up.).

(you: Did you talk smack about Scott as you ran because he blew you off this morning?) (us: DUH.)