I didn't run this year since my allergies were really kicking my butt and I was having trouble breathing just standing still. I was acting as a range officer running one of the shooting stages, so I was too busy to take any pics of the shootin'.
Maximus Ram - funny you mentioned running through the brush & cactus with no clothes on.... We had one competitor (the event organizer's brother) who paints boats for a living down at the coast. He's about as brown as a gringo can get, has hair that looks about like an old mop, and big bushy "hippie" beard. Pretty much looks like he just walked out of the Woodstock video. Anyway, he ran the whole thing in nothing but FLIP-FLOPS and some kind of Hawaiian wrap-around surfer skirt, with a small canvas bag over one shoulder for his M-14 magazines and water, and his M-14 slung over the other shoulder. That dude is TOUGH!!!
I really wish I had gotten a picture of that! Pretty much flies in the face of most of the anti-gun stereotypes you can think of. Pretty interesting folks you meet that are willing to test/abuse themselves this way every year. :violent-smiley-031:
Oh yeah, the reason all the clothes are hanging everywhere is because it rained about 2-3 inches during the first 3-4 hours of the race, so the competitors who were running then got
soaked. I, however, was standing under a nice semi-dry awning.
