A Venture in a Sport Event

[Nacho]

Hi there folks:

This weekend I've been busy helping with my Venture to organise a Triathlon in my home town. as all of you know a triathlon is a very hard sport where participants have to swim (in this case it was 750 meters), then they have to ride 20 km (12.5 miles) on bicycle and finally 5 kilometres by running (3.12 miles).

As one of the organisers was one of my cousins, he called me to ask for the use of a big motorcycle opening the bicycles race. As you may expect, was very pleased to offer my help and there I was with my Venture opening the race and flashing everybody with my stroboscopic real police flashing lights.

Boy what a pleasure it was to flash all those policemen cutting the traffic of the city with my FORBIDDEN and very ILLEGAL lights. Non of them said nothing about it. Even more, after the race, a couple of them came to where I was and when I thought that I was gonna get a very expensive ticket, they simply asked me for help to install flashes in their private bikes. Now I have new friends who may take some tickets away when I get them.

Anyway, here are some pictures of the race (basically ME) and my city. I hope you like them.

Best regards to all,

Nacho.

[johnjr]

Hey fantastic Nacho...how great to be part of that event...and for you make those new friends.......as I understand it....you will need them in the future...so good move by you!!! ;D

[Falko]

wow wow wow....

but i dont see a European Venturer Flag on your Bike ;-)) !?

btw. it seems Valladolid isnt a small town ?

couldnt you get more members of the spanish club into this ?
would have a real pleasure and fun for all of them ?

[Nacho]

Well, I could have put some flags in my antennas Falko, but I guess that the event was about a different style of life (usually these triathletes don't drink the amounts of beers you guys do and they are very used to hard efforts, while most of us would get REAL TIRED right after the first corner). I didn't want to make any publicity and maybe the organiser wouldn't like it.

And no, Valladolid is not a small city. It has more than 500.000 people living in there and it is capital of Castilla y León, a big area made out of 9 different provinces with a total extension of about 300 km from North to South and 400 km from West to East. Actually they say is the biggest region of Europe (depending on the same local government or Autonomic Community). Somebody told me once that is bigger than Switzerland, Luxemburg and some other small European countries.

And for more Ventures involved in the event, there is only 3 in the Province of Valladolid. all of them are members of the Spanish Venture Club, of course, but they could not join (I called them).

It would have been great to have 3 Ventures together opening the race. Nobody would have seen the bicycles!!!

Things like this are the ones that make life easier.

Regards to all,

Nacho.

[roland]

Hey, Nacho!

Great time to use the Venture with the strobos. Think You had a lot of fun doing this.

Best regards
Roland

[TwoWheels]

Thanks Nacho for those pics,it must have been a great honour to be involved in one of the hardest races in the athletic world,for us Venturers,maybe you could organise a pub crawl race ;D

[Nacho]

No way!!!! John would be the winner in one of those crawl races and then Falko would get second position!!! Boy, they drink fast!!!

Besides, if they see the strobos during the race, they might think they are in a disco or something and they could try to start dancing, which actually I think is the worst view a man can see on this earth.

But it could be funny, anyway. Maybe we can try in 2008 in Spain.

Best regards,

Nacho.

[valhalla]

WELL Natcho,
what can one say a wondweful experiance for you , and good friends made all round by the sounds of things, as for the pub crawl trust Noel to think of that one . John jr and falko are both big boys and can certainly out drink me two pints and i am anybodys. But never the less a good idea for on of the future rallys . yours Colin ;D ;D ;D