Great story! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 3:52 AM Alan Cole <wisselstro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use to do that as well until my Lab passed on in 2020 aged 14. At our > ages we decided against another dog. We now feed a tribe of Feral Cats! > > If I can find another slowish (about 6min/km) running partner, I may > resume. The younger & quicker members of our Club get annoyed with me > because I hold them up. Long gone are the 4min/km days. > > One race which I really enjoyed was the annual Skukuza Half Marathon in the > Kruger Park (with an army of Rangers to keep us safe). Quite tough with a > lot of dirt roads. It is actually a fundraising event for conservation > projects. I ran my 20th in 2014 in 01:58 when I was 71. I'm really > considering a comeback next year when I am 80 for my 21st Skukuza (even if > I have to walk half of it - they give you 3hrs. if you need it) & probably > my Swansong. > > There has only been one "incident" I am aware of in the 30 odd years of the > event. A pride of Lions wandered onto the route on an out-and-back section > around 15km. in about 2000. The rangers stopped the lead runners while they > chased to Lions away but it took about 10min so they ended up with a > pile-up of about 50 runners before they could let them go. I was still on > the way out when the group jogged past in the opposite direction joyfully > in song as Blacks do. There was no proper open category "winner" as such > that year. The older age-group categories were unaffected. > > Alan C > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
