One of my first memories of Mike Mahon was at the state meet at Franklin Park my sophomore year of high school back in 2005. I had already run my race (back then there was 2 divisions for boys cross country, I was in division 1) and I was calmly chatting with some teammates about 50 meters from the finishing chute area. The division 2 race was kind of going on in the background, but I wasn't focused on it. Suddenly, Mahon came sprinting out of nowhere - with one fist raised high in the air in triumph - yelling "Hopedale!" in the same sort of manner Mel Gibson yelled "they will never take our Freedom" in Braveheart.
Then there was the time recently (less than a year ago) where he commented (really trolled would be a more appropriate term) on my Facebook profile picture. It was a picture of me running a personal best in the mile, with 4:08.5 as the caption. Mahon posted simply "Fast time, You never get under 4:00 per mile."
Mahon is such a high spirit guy and a significant part of Massachusetts cross country, particularly on the high school scene. He was always a lot of fun.