Wednesday Caption
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:28AM Cormac Heron I guest-tweeted for Lap The Lough using the hashtag #LTL11. It was great to see the event grow, and to see the new faces, as well as people from the previous laps.
Just like last year everyone got a T-shirt designed by Marc Johns so I thought it would be appropriate to use his image for this week's Wednesday Caption.
Image by Marc Johns
Although the event was great fun for many it was marred by a nasty accident which resulted in a serious injury of a young woman taking part in the event. The accident set the tone for the day for the organisers who had issue upon issue to deal with.
I must say that the way in which the Lap The Lough Organisers responded to the criticism has been absolutely exemplary. It shows courage, bravery and real committment to deal with this level of criticism transparently and openly. They have always done this and it has helped the growth of the event and the loyalty of the lappers.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman who was involved in the accident and her family and friends.
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""The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones." ~ Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman