It was a grey, cool day, one I’m sure seals could appreciate for the ‘Save Our Seals Sprint’ 5km fun walk/run, co-organized by Friends of Animals and OrganicAthlete Victoria. The event is modeled slightly after a ‘zombie run’, where runners are ‘humans’, and out on the course are ‘zombies’. In this case, our runners are seals, and out on the course we had a couple seal ‘clubbers’, who would chase and harass the seals as they were out for a 5 kilometer ‘swim’ around the scenic paths along Dallas Road to raise awareness about the awful seal slaughter on the East Coast that occurs this time of the year each year. We had 7 walkers (thanks for coming out Steph, Sara, Kelly, Donald, Todd, Dee Dee and Linda), and 10 runners (listed below in the results). There were also at least five dogs out as well! Each participant also received…
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