Miata Mailing List: January 1997, Message #46
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Subject: Polar Bear Run

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Stuart Hellis			health4u@connect.ab.ca

Edmonton, Alberta CANADA	

				http://www.connect.ab.ca/~health4u



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 Since the weather has warmed up today to a balmy -19C (-2F), the Wild Rose

 Chapter went ahead with its First Anuual Polar Bear Run.  The first top

 down event of the year was sparsely attended, with only Richard Dekker, our

 benevolent Dictator, and I showing up.  After we each helped the other

 remove our hardtops, we went for a "bracing" run through downtown Edmonton.

 

 With the wind at 15km/hr (approximately 10 mph) we limited the run to about

 45 minutes.  We did attract some attention from the local gendarmes, and

 assorted pedestrians who cheered us on.  Some, like the tow truck driver in

 the next lane at a traffic light, merely shook their heads.  They just

 don't understand Miataholics.  To hear the crisp sound of the exhaust in

 the winter's air stirs the blood!  Thank God, for otherwise the blood might

 have frozen.

 

 A challenge, then, to anyone else who has the tenacity to top down it at

 temperatures where the windchill is around -25C.

 

 I can hardly wait for Spring, only another four months.  When my camera

 thaws out, we should have some photos to show for it.

 

 Happy New Year one and all,

 

 Regards,

 

 Stuart & Tabasco

 '90 Red (glad to have her hardtop back on)

 

 p.s.  A hardtop really does make a difference!

 

 Wild Rose Chapter

 M-Club #149

 Stuart Hellis			health4u@connect.ab.ca

 Edmonton, Alberta CANADA	

 				http://www.connect.ab.ca/~health4u