OPERATION SNEAKY WEASEL
(IDIOCY FOR A WORTHY CAUSE)
Not the 1940's MI6 Operation to bring down the fall of the Thousand Year Reich by stealing all the squirrels in the Berlin Zoo (look it up), but in fact a team of two (now three) idiots who seem to think that racing across the Indian Subcontinent, in a vehicle designed to carry fat ex-pats from their tennis club to the hotel bar, will somehow bring meaning to their lives. Or death.
It is more likely to be the latter.
For the uninitiated The Rickshaw Run is a race between Kathmandu and Pondicherry on the southern tip of India. It is 2300 miles through the desert, the monsoon and the Himalayas run in auto-rickshaws which are Asias silliest form of public transport. If this all sounds allarmingly like a mid life crisis... well dont tell my shrink!
PS you can reach us on Operationsneakyweasel@hotmail.co.uk
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Authors Note: The Final Race Report... Finally
At 12:32 on 26-03-2009 Jon said...
The following is a diary, a chronicle if you will, of Operation Sneaky Weasel, a team of three idiots who took part in the Summer Rickshaw Run of 2008, a charity rally, raced in auto-rickshaws/tuk tuks from Kathmandu to Pondicherry in Southern India*.
We were neither the best team nor the worst; neither first nor last. There were teams that quit, teams that crashed, teams that rolled their tuk tuk. There were teams that took in the sites, teams that concluded multi million dollar deals on an Indian highway...[Read More]
