Every Roo will feast tonight. The Roos place their trays at a long table, where hopefully there will be enough chairs for everybody. Those who missed practice for injuries or schoolwork are welcomed. Although the Roos are of the friendly, welcoming sort, few nonrunners who have dined with them will do it again. The runners' conversation is full of technical jargon.
Runners can talk about running for hours.
The Roos are no exception. Other topics include intimate relationships, past and future. Talk of schoolwork is mostly avoided, although the thought looms in their minds. Stories, true or exaggerated, new or a decade old, long and short, funny or somber, are retold for the hundredth time. The Roo who ate a stick of butter.