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Comments: We were on our way towards the start line when who do we see... Ray Nagin! The mayor or Chocolate City himself! We just had to stop for a picture. Too bad Derek(DerekL) had to work and couldn't be there with us. So we walked along and picked up a woman Laurie works with as well as Noot, Haley's Aunt and Rustin within the first half mile. Angel had gone ahead to the start with Bear but she was walking so we were hoping to find her along the way as well. About a mile in we had to stop so Laurie could go to the bathroom. This was around the same time the "Chocolatini" girls snubbed Haley when she asked for one. Then there was some sort of incident with BodyGlide. It's kind of hard to remember it all. I wonder why? About a half mile later we ran into an open bar. Obviously we had to stop for more drinks. Later on down the road we hit the official beer stop. Too bad they were handing us Natural Light. Ugh. Haley managed to "find" herself a 'Re-elect Nagin' yard sign and that brought a smile to everyone's face. Around the half-way point Noot's friend met us with Sunny D mimosas! Thank goodness because I was worried about getting dehydrated today. We turned back to see the sag wagon coming down the street. There was no way we were going to let them catch us so we picked up the pace a little bit. Of course we had to stop so Haley could pee on a high school and then we all posed with our Nagin sign in front of an abandoned washing machine on the side of the road. But other than that we were making good time. Other than more public urination and lots of drunken good times, those were the highlights of the "race". What would you do differently?: NOTHING!  Post race
Warm down: Found Jeremy just past the finish line then and said good-bye to Noot, Rustin and his mom before we went into the stadium for the post-race festivities. We headed straight for the Abita beer truck (free beer of course) and then found Bear and Angel in the stands. They had managed to meet up with Rob(H13) and Joann(joannh13). So we all sat in the stands, enjoying our drinks and talking and laughing. It took us a while to work up the energy to leave after such an exhausting race. But Joel and I were getting tattoos that afternoon and Laurie was getting a piercing so we had to finally say good-bye. What limited your ability to perform faster: Beer, doughnuts, mimosas, public urination, screwdrivers from the bar, aqua-bra, grass skirt, a parrot on top of my flag pole. Oh, and the fact that I ran an Ironman the week before. Event comments: Awesome race. I'd bet it's even fun to run it. Profile Album Last updated: 2006-03-28 12:00 AM
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Got up around 5:30 and got my gear together. By gear I mean grass skirts, leis, coconut bras, fake parrots and every other Hawaiian accessory we could find a the party store the day before.
Got dressed in the parking lot with Noot, Haley's aunt and her cousin Rustin. I don't know why people kept staring at me. What's so strange about a guy wearing a water filled bra with little floating fish inside of it?
We headed down to the shuttles and met up with Laurie(tri it cajun style), Angel(Mrs. Bear) and Jeremy(jjweav). John(the Bear) and Joel(Tri-Pirate) had started early that morning and were going to run from the shuttle parking lot to the race start so they could get their long runs in that day.
The shuttle dropped us off and we had to walk a half mile or so to get to the staging area. We gave Bear his grass skirt and while Joel was putting on his aqua-bra we were approached by a camera crew. There weren't alot of people dressed up this year so we stood out and they wanted to interview us for a New Orleans tourism video!
Afterwards we opened a few pre-race beers and headed towards the start line. Bear was going to be running the 10K seriously (as serious as he could with a grass skirt on) so we wished him good luck as we made our way to the Cafe du Monde for beignets.
I got my first taste of a fried French doughnut, Joel got some cups of water to fill-up his fake breasts and Haley got to pee in public. Everyone was a winner!
Okay, maybe we should think about starting the race now.