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Originally Posted by elvis hitler
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Elvis thanks for posting the vid. I had just found it as well but you beat me to it. The youtube user that originally posted the video has a second vid which is really just a slideshow. There's one pic of the red runners in the slideshow, which I resized and posted below. Because it's from a youtube vid, the resolution is terrible, but I figure it's worth posting, if nothing else than because it shows them casually hanging out naked on the side of the course waiting for more runners to come by.
Seeing the pic and the video, it's obvious why we don't have more photos of them. It looks like instead of actually participating in the race (or the walk) they're just hanging out (literally) on the side during the competitive early morning portion of the event, and jumping onto the route for a hundred meters or so to distract the lead runners (the orange-topped team actually finished second in the team race) then going back and doing it all over. So this is all taking place relatively early in the morning way ahead of the crowds and all the folks carrying cameras, on a relatively isolated section of the coure. My guess is that they were long gone before the walkers or joggers showed up. When I saw the first pictures, I had hoped that that they were actually running naked as part of the one of the earlier faster running groups (from blogs I've read there are apparently a few examples of people doing so), but no such luck. Pretty smart on their part I guess: they get to have some fun getting naked in public, do something pretty funny (the looks on the runners' faces are priceless), and avoid having tons of pictures of them flooding the internet. I'm still searching though!