We are all worn out with the heat and the prospects of Saturday + August humidity = Kinda Scary. What's a girl to do? Look for something to laugh about, of course!
In a desperate attempt to at least read about marathoning (sort of but not quite the same as training outside) I sat down with a copy of Runner's magazine that Suz passed on to me.
Now, LISTEN up! I found the event for you! You can't do it this year because it's October 6, but next year I can definitely see Chuck, Kelvin, Phil, Floyd, Mark and Clark and you other guys entering this event.
On October 6, Bethel, Maine, hosts the North American Wife Carrying Championship!!! It's a Scandanavian tradition. A man carries his wife or other random female, 278 yards over log hurdles and thru mud pits. (You should be laughing by now.) The Winner, and this is big, gets his wife's weight in BEER! Believe it or not. Check it out. There's a UTube Video, and according to the website they also WILL let the female carry the male.
http://www.sundayriver.com/summer/wifecarry.html
Told you it was a Laugh Out Loud.
See ya Saturday!
Debra
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5 comments:
I think the August heat must be getting to you!! :-)
Good laugh!
Clark
That is hysterical. I'm glad I don't have a wife to carry or I'd probably be signing up for that, too.
I think you need one of those Tucson Cool Caps on your head because you are definitely having vapors girl!!! I think it would be more fun if they drank their wife's weight in beer first and then carried (I am using that word loosely) over the logs and mud pit. Much more entertaining!!! Suz
Hey, we could do that after the Butt championship!
Seems fitting, don't you think?
It seems it would pay to have a fat wife! I can do that!
Jana
Can't we just get a couple of pitchers for you and Suz pulling me in the wagon??
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