This past summer I ran a 10K bandit. This is by no means anything new for me, or for my family. In fact, one could argue that it is a family tradition to run 10Ks bandit. For years Buck (my Dad) dragged at least half of his four uber-annoying kids down to Detroit to run in the Turkey Trot 10K. In fact, it wasn’t until I was in 8th grade (or grade 8 for all you Canadians) that I realized we should be paying to run in this event.
In all honesty, I haven’t run this race in 5 years. So, I’m thinking of getting some of my family members together and running it. But the question is, should a group of job holding financial (mostly) responsible people run a race bandit?
Yeah, I know, I’m encouraging the ripping off of a good charity. And, believe it or not, such things actually bother me. But I do have two compromise positions. First, I’ll take the cost of the race and donate that amount directly to the charity. The way I justify it, that is more actual money for the charity. Or, run under an pseudonym.
Either way, the Parade Company will be getting some greenbacks and I’ll be running the 10K Turkey Trot with a few members of my family.
What would your racing pseudonym be?
December / 2013 Recap and The End
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Lightning McQueen (because that's the first thing I thought of)
Buffy Sargent (my "porn name")
Sarah McSpeedy (you know why)
Barry Allen, the alter-ego of the Flash.
McFLY!
I am a total comedy stealer so I would have to be Regina Filange.
Happy Thanksgiving!
If you are running bandit, then you need a real bandit's name. How about Butch Cassidy or Jesse James?
So, how did it go and what was the name?
Getting caught up.... I've never ran bandit, but it sounds FUN. How'd it go?
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