Drunk guy running the 100m

Somehow it just doesn’t surprise me that this happened to me on a Saturday afternoon in the Finnish summer. I was just about to leave the athletics stadium in Nastola, a 15.000 soul community just east of Lahti (southern Finland), as two taxis shot into the large and abandoned car park, a bunch of rounder shaped men all about in their 30’s, early 40’s squeezed themselves out of the cars and came visibly alcoholized dangling towards me, “hey, we have a bet going that this one friend of ours here won’t be able to run 100m below 22 seconds…” Read the rest of this entry »