Those Lycra lovelies were out again. Sweating,
swaying, sprinting and shuffling round the Britannic Asset Management
Women’s 10K Road race on Sunday 15th May 2005. We shout
hooray and throw our towels in the air to salute their perspiration,
hail their application, admire their Britannic Assets as more personal
bests (PB) were set and cartilage damaged in the name of the sisterhood.
What hot blooded male could resist these gorgeous
Glenmoron (luckily none are grannies so I can stop the alliteration
there) matriarchs as they navigated the mean streets of the south side
in the pursuit of personal fulfilment.
"Phew It’s a Scorcher" would have been the headline
of any self-respecting tabloid newspaper. However editors are only human
and male so instead a picture of a bevy of Celtic cuties would have to
do.
Our first home was sexy mother of one Rosi Masterton
in 46min49sec in 280th place. Then that bubbly Brummie babe
Mary Cox rolled in not far behind at 50:07 (PB) 648th;
flaming read-head temptress Sue Johnston was third 53.42 (PB) 1386th,
Cora "The Sprint" Moffat powered home in 56:17 2220th (PB)
overtaking many on the final straight with well judged reserves of Va Va
Voom. Naughty nurse Jackie took our temperature with a tempting 59:23
3462nd in her first outing over the distance; Isobel broke
free of the chasing pack of admirers and paparazzi to coast home in
58:56 Dr Elvire broke hearts and set pulses racing as she prescribed a
time of 59:36, "just what the doctor ordered" was her prescription after
our consultation; there was no need of a bed bath from the matron of the
club, curvaceous cutie Sister Kate Stewart 1:00:19 3897th, she knows how
to apply a salve and in that uniform who wouldn’t want her to apply a
cold compress; boffin Lorna Gillespie proved that you can travel in time
by clocking 1:02:27 but with brains as well as the body it was a
pleasure to wait; Anna McLeay engineered a time of 1:02:47
So
another race over! The result is not important we celebrate their
achievement and wait for the advertising assignments to flow in. The
post race party in Kate and Alan Stewart’s sumptuous garden was a gala
affair; with A list celebrities dropping in to sign autographs and talk
to fans who lined the red carpet. Veronica dropped by to meet her well
wishers and Alan worked up a sweat over the Barbie.
Rosi’s time was the fastest in her age group by a
good margin. In fact she would have been tenth in the band ten years
younger. So a special hooray to Rosi
So till next year "happy trails"
Gordon
