Girls on the Track • A Crit • BBQ on Aberdeen
Another fun-filled weekend in LA has passed and here is the report! Friday night, a crew headed back to Hollywood Park to enjoy big winnings, cheap beer and $1 hot dogs. Paul won $60 on one race around the track... and everyone else seemed to at least pay for their brew. (above: Anneka, Paul, Seth & Jeanette)
Between the races, the host was promoting what we all thought was a bikini contest. Then, between the last two races of the night they began loading girls in bikini's into the horse starter-stalls. Next thing you know, about 20 girls were running a 100 or 200 yard dash on the track in their bikini's and running shoes (pic above). It was nuts! For the rest of the night as you walked around the facility, guys would holler at you, "I would have bet on you honey." In the photo below are Michelle Moriarity, me & Karen Ma.
We adjourned to enjoy a concert by The Romantics after the last race. As it turns out, Michelle's beau, Val (in the fedora, below), manages the group, and he invited us to party with them after the show. Being the lame early-to-bed crowd we are, though, I had to turn the offer down, and headed home by midnight.
The next morning, Dani and I met Rejean at the Cycle for Life Crit in Inglewood to cheer him on. We enjoyed watching him race, along with clubber Charles Sharp. Crits can be pretty exciting to watch... at the end of the one Rejean and Charles were in, there was a pretty impressive wreck where one poor fellow rode away in an ambulance. I sure hope he was okay! Charles only suffered some strawberries and some bike damage, and Rejean avoided it completely.
It was great seeing Neva out there >> one of my favorite people and one of the most impressive athletes I know! (Pictured above: Dani Paxson & Rejean Labbe; Neva Day w/me)
Later that afternoon I headed over to see buddies Tom and Tim for a BBQ at their current place of residence, which happens to be Kirsty Alley's home in Los Feliz. A few brews, time in the pool, camaraderie, a BBQ and lastly, a screening of Pushing the Limits, capped off an awesome, but H-O-T, LA weekend. (pictured: Tom Mullen & Jon Grogan playing ball in the awesome pool, below that, everyone gathers on the back porch for grilled veggies & yummy bbq).
Another fun-filled weekend in LA has passed and here is the report! Friday night, a crew headed back to Hollywood Park to enjoy big winnings, cheap beer and $1 hot dogs. Paul won $60 on one race around the track... and everyone else seemed to at least pay for their brew. (above: Anneka, Paul, Seth & Jeanette)
Between the races, the host was promoting what we all thought was a bikini contest. Then, between the last two races of the night they began loading girls in bikini's into the horse starter-stalls. Next thing you know, about 20 girls were running a 100 or 200 yard dash on the track in their bikini's and running shoes (pic above). It was nuts! For the rest of the night as you walked around the facility, guys would holler at you, "I would have bet on you honey." In the photo below are Michelle Moriarity, me & Karen Ma.
We adjourned to enjoy a concert by The Romantics after the last race. As it turns out, Michelle's beau, Val (in the fedora, below), manages the group, and he invited us to party with them after the show. Being the lame early-to-bed crowd we are, though, I had to turn the offer down, and headed home by midnight.
The next morning, Dani and I met Rejean at the Cycle for Life Crit in Inglewood to cheer him on. We enjoyed watching him race, along with clubber Charles Sharp. Crits can be pretty exciting to watch... at the end of the one Rejean and Charles were in, there was a pretty impressive wreck where one poor fellow rode away in an ambulance. I sure hope he was okay! Charles only suffered some strawberries and some bike damage, and Rejean avoided it completely.
It was great seeing Neva out there >> one of my favorite people and one of the most impressive athletes I know! (Pictured above: Dani Paxson & Rejean Labbe; Neva Day w/me)
Later that afternoon I headed over to see buddies Tom and Tim for a BBQ at their current place of residence, which happens to be Kirsty Alley's home in Los Feliz. A few brews, time in the pool, camaraderie, a BBQ and lastly, a screening of Pushing the Limits, capped off an awesome, but H-O-T, LA weekend. (pictured: Tom Mullen & Jon Grogan playing ball in the awesome pool, below that, everyone gathers on the back porch for grilled veggies & yummy bbq).
