Run the Rivah!

Or at least eat the chili! Saturday morning saw the 20th anniversary of Stephen "Petey" Peterson's awesome 10-mile trail race along the Merrimack River. A great course, with plenty of challenges, including an insane hill at the power lines, and nearly 200 brave souls showed up to run it! The Marathon Men were on hand too, but too afraid of inflicting a last-minute injury on the rocks, roots, and stream crossings of the trail course, so we opted for the pavement course through Andover instead. But that didn't stop us from sharing in Scott's chili, as you'll see shortly. Here's Petey, waving his flag, trying desperately to get people to listen to him: Carlos isn't looking too intimidated by his competition. Game face for Gametime.

Despite a last minute shoelace snafu, Scott is off and running!

Carlos, with barely a mud spatter on him, finishes the 10 mile trek

The E Streeters at large. Notice John has already claimed first blood

But Barry and Sean were right behind him, giving their thumbs up to the food offerings

Finally, the spoils of victory! What every marathoner needs to enjoy 9 days before the big race

Once again, congrats to Petey, seen here awarding the coveted YooHoo award at race's end to the first member of the 200 mile club who's run in all 20 of the annual events.

And for those of you worried that Andrew missed out on the feedbag, worry not - a bowl of Scott's ultra chili made its way home to the young lad.

Finally, here's Barry proudly displaying his autographed, personalized photo of Boston Bruin 7th Player award winner Brad Marchand, who wished him good luck at the Boston Marathon! Marchand wrote "You're Not Ready for the Marathon, Barry" but we appreciate his well-wishes anyways!

See everyone at next year's Rivah race!