Sarah, BJ (another good friend of mine), Penny, Buster, and Bart all met down at the softball stadium at the U of A for the race. Jokingly we entered Penny into the race. If you know Penny, then you know she is the slowest out of all 3 of our wieners and thus the least likely to win a race. Buster and Bart are both pretty quick, but can be easily distracted.
This is the race track. The wieners are each put into one of 8 lanes at the end. On the announcers cue the little gates are open and in theory the wieners race out and across the finish line. The catch is they MUST cross the finish line within the red rectangle that you see above.
Barts game face! Grr...
Penny was in the first heat. The gates open and..... all the dogs except Penny ran off the course. Penny, being Penny was terrified and stood there for a second. They she started walking (yes walking, not running, not even jogging or trotting, just plain old walking), she started to veer left, then she decided to veer right. I'm screaming her name at the top of my lungs. She slowly makes it down to my end, while the other competitors in her race have left the field. She stops about 6 inches from the finish line and then finally when I pull out a treat she crosses and is named the winner of her heat!!! Hahahaha
It was sooooooo funny. I didn't video tape it, because I thought it was all going to happen so fast that I wouldn't have time. Who knew she was going to walk across the line.
Next up from our group was Bart. I got a tape of his race. See below. Bart came out of gate 7, I believe.
Then it was Buster's turn. Let's just say he was in a similar group to Penny's, but even more dysfunctional. Buster's heat got to race 3 times before a winner was announced. The first 2 races all the dogs left the field. Buster wasn't even close - he got too distracted with other things!
As the winner of her heat, Penny got to be part of the University of Arizona Men's Basketball halftime show. If she won this race, then we would be off to San Diego. As you can see from the video of Bart's race, there was some real competition out there and the chance of Penny winning was pretty slim.
Pre race pictures (waiting for halftime):
Penny resting before her big race. Please note she was very polite and went up to her competitors while waiting and sniffed their butts. She did not growl as did some of the competition.
Penny's race support team.
It's show time:
Does she look terrified to you?
Our goal at this point in the game was that Penny did not poop or pee in front of thousands of people, like she often does when she gets nervous and/or scared.
The halftime set up. Penny is in slot #1!
Video of Penny's Race - watch spot #1!
Please note Penny did leave her slot before the winner crossed the finish line! According to Sarah the only reason she left was because she pushed her little booty out of there! hehe
Oh well - we had a great time and I got a free Wienerschnitzel t-shirt out of it. yeah.
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