the weather couldn't have been nicer for the annual running of the vulture bait trail race around fanshaw lake in london this saturday. the pylons had an impressive showing, with homey, robbie, vents, boots, the grumpy little portuguese, and mrs. beaver going for 25k, and me, captain, digger and the beave doing 50. much to the captains' dismay, there were way too many rule infractions to even count, and something was mentioned about resorting to handing out fines.
we managed to get distracted with the contents of diggers' cooler,
and further distracted by digger injuring himself before he even started (something about stabbing himself while trying to attach his race bib)
to the point where we found ourselves not at all ready when they started the race. clothing was not entirely in place, and watches hadn't even been reset from previous runs!
i managed to catch up with homey just before the end of my first loop, and could congratulate him on an awesome finish - especially considering he'd been on the disabled list for most of september and october! i don't have any exact times, but i think robbie was first pylon across the line, followed by boots, homey, mrs. beaver, vents and the glp. super super job everybody! and vents, don't even think you're giving up baby! you know it's not in the constitution, AND, i just won't allow it!!!
beave was the first finisher in the 50k - some stoopid fast time like 4:30 or something like that! damn skinny-little-boy-bum !!! digger and captain were just a minute apart, and i brought up the rear! digger caused a bit of an altercation by pushing some poor girl out of the way crossing the finish line, and the cap was forced into a sprint with some other guy. me, i came in without incident at 5:13, and would have been a bit sooner if i wasn't forced to 'pull a robbie' on the second loop. oh, and brian, sorry for passing you at the 45k mark and not recognizing you. and even more sorry for my horrible singing.
here's digger and the glp waiting for me to come in.
AND look who i met at the finish line! rita and harry! it was sooo great to see them! they took time out from their busy schedule of trying to spend all their children's inheritance to come and watch us. unfortunately though, they slept in, and missed christine coming across the line. DOH!
'honestly honey, we thought we had lots of time . . . '
here's captain and the beave post-race. not sure what cap's laughing at??
and here's me, homey and meanie queen mrs. beaver just being silly.
we were just about to leave, when they called nick roberts up for 3rd place - who the hell is nick roberts??? congratulations beave - love the trophy! and of course homey just had to get in the picture.
now let's take a look at homeys' new car. the country pylons are moving up in the world. we're driving a benz baby! check out the plate - be homey 016 - purely coincidental.
one last thing. we met scott simpson and his buddy adrian out on the course. both were wearing half of matt tathams' race bib. matt loved the vulture bait and it was only fitting that he run it one more time. you were with us in spirit my friend.
'long may you run'
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