Sometimes mistakes are made. I could have gone to Perth last Saturday – in hindsight I really wish I had!<\/p>\n
But, no. The spouse and I decided it was past time to be good householders and fix a troublesome screen door – which ended up requiring separate trips to three different stores before that important ventilation project could be called a success.<\/p>\n
I knew I’d missed a much better time in Perth the second I saw this video<\/a> from “ActiveSteve<\/a>“, in which he reviews the 3rd annual Perth Kilt run.<\/p>\n [embedplusvideo height=”312″ width=”500″ standard=”http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y7L7A9EXGVM?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=y7L7A9EXGVM&width=450&height=281&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep3756″ \/]<\/p>\n Perth, Ontario already set a Guinness World Record for most runners dressed in kilts in an organized race way back in the 2010 inaugural event. (The event’s official name and website can be found here: Lanark Mutual Perth’s World Record Kilt Run<\/a> )<\/p>\n You may recall from an earlier post<\/a> that this year Perth, Scotland<\/a> was gunning for that distinction. Well, that effort fell shy of the 2010 Ontario record (1,089) and won’t hold a candle to this past weekend’s tally. (Which might be as high as 1,764?)<\/p>\n I haven’t seen the final\/verified number as of this writing. If you know what that is, please post it as a comment.<\/p>\n From various sources I gather there was a haggis throw, a kilt tug-of-war, lots of music, voyageur canoe rides and a new race division for those who don’t think running 8K is quite enough. In the warrior event, 50 participants had to carry a sword and shield the whole route, and complete an unusual obstacle course, after downing a shot of scotch! Oh yes, they also had to adhere to regimental dress\u00a0 (AKA: ‘go commando’). No undies.<\/p>\n ActiveSteve (real name: Stephen Meyer) went on to win the Warrior Class, while (I presume) also filming it en route.<\/p>\n Good job ActiveSteve and great going to everyone who put on a “you-had-to-be-there” event in Perth. (And go Canada, for beating Perth Scotland, eh?)<\/p>\n I’m still kicking myself for missing that much fun. But, I must say, a working screen door on the patio is pretty nice too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes mistakes are made. I could have gone to Perth last Saturday – in hindsight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6858,880,6860,6681,6861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}