From 1pm to about 4.30pm today the average temperature was about 41F (5C) and winds gusting continually at 15-24mph. It rained on and off. I was dressed in jeans and hoodie – brilliant plan to stay outdoors for that long a time just to see some amateurs ride their bikes around a small oval track.
Little 5 came and went. The Cutters (yea, they really exist – borrowing the names and independent spirit from the movie’s real Cutters) ran away with it by lap 184 or so but the sprint to the finish for second and third was great. I wonder if, like basketball, Little 500 should be considered a fourth quarter game because the rest of it was more fun spent people drunk sorority girls watching and eavesdropping on fratboy confessions about peeing on their roofs four times that day. That’s when I wasn’t jumping up and down on the bleachers trying to get blood to the tips of my toes.
Now I think I can say I’ve had the full Hoosier experience? Only thing left to do while in Indiana, really, is to go see Touchdown Jesus.
Some pics from the event are now in an album in the gallery.