cock-eyed and pear shaped

Hello there,
So sorry for the freakish nature of this week's posts. If you haven't figured it out, all of this freakishness is owing to the fact that this weekend is the PA 24-Hour Challenge in lovely Tell City, Indiana.
As I write, I can feel all the cool SmartWool swag spreading out to cover all of my living room floor. Why, you ask, have I so much SmartWool on my floor? It's because this weekend, we'll be conducting our traditional Best Garbage and Treats for Trash programs. Likewise, we'll be busy making this race Leave No Trace Aware duriing the pre-race meeting. Racers can win great SmartWool prizes just for answering some sneaky quiz questions during our LNT presentation, so keep your ears peeled!
At this race, you'll find some terrific ORGANIC COTTON swag bags, provided by ARFE and SmartWool, and you'll also find that race management has taken a step of its own and purchased race T-shirts made of BAMBOO. [Please don't eat the shirts, no matter how hungry you get during the race. This would be akin to you smoking a hemp T-shirt. Just don't do it.]
Also--this weekend's race might just be the nation's first-ever Step It Up event! That's only because we're staring way earlier than any other event scheduled, but hey, we'll take what we can get. The PA 24 racers will be the first to ask Congress to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2020! Yeah, it's brave and ballsy, but we'd expect no less of racers.
This weekend Team ARFE-SmartWool and Team ARFE-SmartWool Senior, our Master's Squad, will be competing! As usual, you can keep your eyes peeled on the 'blog right here for a live-blogging extravaganza!
Right, then. Back to more sorting.
I do have a News Roundup for you, believe it or not. It's just buried under all these piles of luxurious Merino Wool...