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Ice Cream Challenge 2022

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The 4th annual Ice Cream Challenge (ICC) took place on Memorial Day 2022, and had more competitors than any of its previous years. This year, we beefed up the caloric intake and shaved off a couple miles, to ensure that being a fast runner alone would not suffice - to win ICC 2022, your athletic abilities must extend to eating ice cream.. fast. Yes, that is an athletic ability. Pre-race brief The big news to start this year’s version was the late DNS of Tom Bowling, who won 2 of the previous 3 ICC championships - that would open up the chances for the field considerably. Here’s how it works, for those unfamiliar.  There are 2 divisions - Varsity and JV. Varsity : Eat the ice cream treat specified below, then run the 1-mile neighborhood out-and-back. (8 miles total). Loop 1: Snickers ice cream bar Loop 2: Klondike Bar Loop 3: Drumstick Loop 4: Chipwich Loop 5: Snickers ice cream bar Loop 6: Klondike Bar Loop 7: Drumstick Loop 8: Pint of ice cream! JV : Eat the ice cream treats specified