RIP Paint Creek 50K

This may be way early to post, but I found out the following info today.

I sent an email to Craig who ran the Paint Creek 50 K which was very informal 50 K towards the end of January and he informed me that he's not going on with it for 2009. I was kinda of looking forward to trying 25 k this winter.

With that being said I was curious if any BT'ers wanted to make a very informal BT long run this winter. I won't be able to do 50 K, but I was thinking somewhere like Kensington would work where we could do 2 loops and make it more beginner friendly for folks that may want to only do 1 loop of 8 miles instead of the longer distances, and the metroparks always have some bathrooms open with the shorter multi loop set up we could have more BT'ers show up that aren't ready to run further then 8 miles. Then maybe grab a sandwich and brewski or pop at a local bar afterwards.

If we had more east siders interested we could always do Stony Creek, I assume they try to clear the paved path and have some restrooms open on there loop too. Maybe one of the locals on the east side know for certain. I'm not certain on how long the paved trail is???

At this point I'm looking at the last weekend of Jan and Feb (Jan 31 and Feb 1) or (Feb 28 March 1) Of course this is very dependent on some half decent weather.

I know it's way out there but will there be any interest out there? Are there any folks going to be looking at an early season marathon needing to do some long runs. Is Matt doing the Martian full mary again? His training seemed to get us together a lot last winter.