![]() The Color Me Bare run, for instance, in Los Gatos, California, features “paint throwers” who cover the naked runners with a mix of corn starch and powdered tempera along the course. So many more have started up since then that some have added new traditions to distinguish themselves. What is purportedly the oldest of these clothing-optional events celebrates its 30th anniversary July 27: the USATF-sanctioned Bare Buns Fun Run in Deer Lake, Washington. ![]() Tourist agencies in places like Pasco County, Florida, encourage the nude runs there because of the business they bring in. Many are not timed.īut other features are surprisingly similar. Participants are allowed to remain anonymous, with results often posted only by first name and last initial, for example. There are some things about these races that differ from conventional events. The course records are a respectable 15:49 and 19:29 for men and women, respectively. “We get a lot of top runners from around Florida” for the run, Williams says. Williams also directs the Streak the Cove 5K in Kissimmee, Florida in September. This year’s race, held in May, attracted a record 312 runners from 25 states. “There’s no question there’s a bucket-list mentality to this,” says Pete Williams, director of the Caliente Bare Dare 5K, at the upscale Caliente Resort in Land O’Lakes, Florida. Most of these runs are held at nudist resorts or on other private property, but they’re increasingly attracting runners with no experience of nudism who want to try something different. “Of course, there’s no razor wire or anything like that to catch on dangly bits,” says Rich Gilbreath, director of the new race, called Mud, Sweat, and Boobs. And what is apparently the first-in-the-nation naked obstacle race debuted in Burlington, Wisconsin, in June. There’s even a National Championship of Nude Running and a 5K Nude Racing Series, consisting of five runs in Texas and Oklahoma, organized by the American Association for Nude Recreation, with another circuit proposed for Florida. More runners are getting up the nerve to run naked, in a growing number of clothing-optional runs-nearly 30 of them, nationwide-that are beginning to emerge from beneath the radar. But I just kind of got the nerve up and went out and did it.” “There were people there I see at regular races-actual people who I knew. “I didn’t want everyone to see me naked,” says Lasseter, seen above, who ended up winning among the women and who won again the next year. That’s because the runners in this Florida event compete nude, except for their shoes and the occasional GPS watch. But the first time she entered the Caliente Bare Dare 5K, she hid behind her car until just moments before the start. I watched it at home on BluRay from my public library, my wife skipped, not her kind of movie.Like all runners, Whitney Lasseter had often experienced butterflies before races. This is a good movie for those who appreciate and enjoy this type of British underworld movie, there aren't really any characters who are good people, there are just different degrees of badness. ![]() The cast includes a number of well-known actors and the roles are uniformly interesting. So the movie is mainly about that and how Mickey and those loyal to him devise methods to protect him and his investments. As the news of that gets around a number of shady operators want to get their cuts from a number of devious means. The price? Just 400 million British Pounds. Now in middle age has decided to sell his marijuana empire, which included a dozen well-hidden farms, and retire to a leisurely life and maybe have a few rug rats with his beautiful and devoted wife. He soon learned that he had a knack for selling drugs to fellow students and that eventually blossomed into his vocation on a very broad scale. Matthew McConaughey is American Mickey Pearson who went to England as a young man on a Rhodes Scholarship. This is a typical Guy Ritchie movie, there is a story, it isn't always easy to follow, but style is even more important.
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