This past Saturday was the 2006 Red Dress Run, put on by the New Orleans Hash House Harriers.
I met up with Jeremy, William, and Kung Fu Andy II™ (representing missed Andy) at Molly’s at ~11am, and we rolled over to the start point, Tucker’s (used to be Polynesian Joe’s). After a couple of hours of drinking Bud Light straight from taps sticking out of the side of the beer truck, we the rest of our crew arrived: Sonny, Lara, Oscar, and John.
Shortly thereafter, all ~650 of us took off. Ran through the Riverwalk Mall. _All_ of it. Awesome. The rest, well, is the rest. We ran between 5 bars (Club Deactur/Ryan’s, Bonndock Saint/that whole block, Razzoo? (ugh), Bourbon Cowboy?(ugh)/Bourbon House, Lucy’s/Vic’s, back to Tucker’s) by chasing a flour trail. And we only lost the “scent” once.
Jeremy even managed to run through one or more fountains in Jackson Square. Afterwards, on the ride back to Molly’s, William apaprently got hit by a car while riding my chopper, Angelina. He’s pretty much okay, Bot not KFAII, so much. He definitely got it the worst. By the end of the day, he had no hair, no hands/foreams, and the car took his legs. Poor guy.
After that, we rolled to the R. I took a meander back to Molly’s, and then back to the R, where I ended up meeting two ladies who happened to be behind me in line at Forever 21 when Lara and I picked up my first dress (I later got a different one from Buffalo Exchange that I like much better).
After everything was said and done, I ran ~4.5 miles, drank a bunch of crappy beer, got many a compliment of my dress, got a bit burned and a bit sore. But no hangover! And there’s photographic evidence! Below are some of my favorite shots, but there are many more, all in chronological order: