Its Six o'Clock on a Monday night in Canberra and all the important people are gathered around a topless gas bottle at Womble street in Narrabundah. Except POPTART, she wasnt there. Oh, and nor was SEXCHANGE. And so, together with WEATHERMAN (the venue) and CRUNCHY (the faux dumplings) DISTEMPER has put on a run away from the light rail clad streets of Harrison and Franklin. Instead we ran around the streets of Narrabunda. SEEDLESS likened it to playing a game of snakes on an early model Nokia MobPh. The runners following each other in a daisy chain of love around the streets, through the alleyways, across parks and up the one hill in a hundred miles. 2/10. The walkers maintained a steady pace for over an hour (almost as long as the chalk talk) and finally happened upon the marvellous drink / chip stop. 2/10. Well done DISTEMPER. CRASH and BURN took a while to get the circle to order. The Grandest of Mattresses toying with him and yet being sympathetic at the same time. Those big puppy eyes and that lolling tongue just waiting for another "Who's a good doggy then??" Finally we got things underway. WEATHERMAN was finally lost for a rythm and the hare song lost all momentum. CRASH announced that there were NO returnees. (except for HELLO KITTY, POOSHOOTER, DISTEMPER, HIDDEN FLAGON and DUCKHEAD (thats rather a lot really)) HIDDEN FLAGON was charged for missing one goat in two years. GREASE NIPPLE was told he runs like a Clydesdale. GERBILs was chastised for not backmarking. FRIZZY LIZZIE has achieved the not inconsiderable feat of being seen to leave 291 times and she doubled up on the Media Slut awards. DISTEMPER received the PPP award for not marking trail to FLUID MOVEMENTS exacting standards (In other words, She got lost) Just a reminder to start saving your pennies. The annual Capital pilgrimage to Perisher will take place 3-5 Nov this year to celebrate the 1900th run. As usual, I make no apologies for blatently misrepresenting the truth. It's how i won my Pulitzers.