could" and Tim Ritchie, who had already run 3:58 at Boston Indoor Games this winter, volunteered to man up for lap 3.

So the Warwickians who hadn't yet left, gathered around and we prepared to race. The official with the gun left, so they had to trigger the timer with a palm slap that the timing company informed us also had to serve as the start signal for the race to count as FAT. There was lightening in the distance, but a serendipitous break in the deluge, and the roughly 40 people in attendance had to stay totally silent so that we could hear the fleshy thud that signaled the start. The only sound we heard coming off the line was our own spikes digging into the wet tracka willingness to explore new frontiers and crave the unconventional.

Alison Teiman, one of the founding Honey Badgers, has an online comic called Xenospora. She is an amazing artist and you should check it out.

Alison is also very much an advocate of women, along with being a men’s rights activist (MRA). There is palatable irony that she was thrown out of the Calgary Expo with the Badgers in their stand against censorship. Though she believes women can be agents in their own life stories without a victim-hood narrative, people at the con and others tweeting about the con, excluded her from the in-group from which they claim to speak for all women.

I am a woman. I wanted to see the Honey Badger Brigade and if I was at the