It was a warm and windy June morning. Wisconsin had not quite woken, but 23 brave runners from the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Annual Meeting were "off to see the statue of Juneau and Wisconsin lake". This approximately 4-mile run (give or take a mile, as usual) had the simplest route one can imagine - straight to the lake and back. Despite the simplicity, we had 4 people who were declared "missing in action" at the end of the race. The race director is pleased to announce that two of them showed up alive and well a short time later. However, at the time of production, the race director had no information on the whereabouts of Mary Bradley (spouse) and Sue Oberling (guest), who were last spotted at the Juneau statue. The race director assumes that if Mary Bradley had indeed vanished, her husband, ANS Executive Director Harry Bradley, would have noticed and contacted the race director by now.

For the men's race, Ross Radel from the University of Wisconsin came in first. Catherine Prolong from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland was the first to arrive in the women's race. Naturally, following our unwritten rules and bylaws, both have been disqualified for trying too hard. Adding in a little local flavor, NA-YGN took the opportunity to research the relationship between the consumption of Wisconsin cheese and the level of optimism toward the future of nuclear science and technology. More specifically, we asked our participants when they had last consumed Wisconsin Cheese, and when they expected the next NPP to be built. Overall, this study indicated that a daily portion of Wisconsin cheese creates and/or maintains a positive attitude towards nuclear science and technology. Further deduction led us to the conclusion that a chronic lack of cheese might cause severe RBD (running behavioral disorder). This was illustrated by Charlie Rombough, who, according to the survey, had never heard of Wisconsin cheese, and was preparing for the Western States 100-mile (yes, no typo) run.

Finally, let's get to the point. After carefully manipulating the actual results, the following runners are declared the official winners of the NA-YGN 2001 Summer Meeting Fun Run: Robert Bari from Brookhaven and Bilge Jildiz from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Congratulations! We hope to see all of you at the ANS Winter Meeting in Reno, NV for our first edition of the "NA-YGN T-shirt Run." Log on to www.na-ygn.org for more information.