Miata Mailing List: January 1997, Message #47
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   From: (none)

Subject: Re: Polar Bear Run

   Date: (none)



we have some goofs that do something like this in Lake Michigan,

Chicago. Wow that has to be cold









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> From: Stuart Hellis 

> To: Multiple recipients of list 

> Subject: Polar Bear Run

> Date: Wednesday, January 01, 1997 4:57 PM

> 

> 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

> 

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