Brufut Marathon

This morning Paul has entered the Brufut marathon which was starting from the traffic lights. walked over to check out the timings of the race and pay his entry fee he returned with a t-shirt with his entry number written on in black marker pen. Just before 9.30am Paul left to join the other runners at the traffic lights, myself and the children set of walking towards the golf course and headed through the farmers fields only to be met by three little piglets trotting along the path when they saw us they made a slight detour and then continued on their way. We continued on passing the ghetto and then saw one of the palm wine tapers up a tree I did manage to discreetly get a photo as they don’t like you taking their photo. We exited the fields onto the main Senegambia highway as we thought this would be the best place to see the race. After waiting a while we decided to start walking towards the traffic lights as we could see Paul walking towards us, he said the bikers were to start first. At 10.00am the bikers started with a police motor bike escort. We waited and waited eventually word came that they had set of the women runners who were starting further on down the course and the men would have to wait for the ambulance to return. When 11.00am came and went the runners were getting very annoyed and surrounding the organisers car, I decided to leave at this point as I was making sausage rolls for tonight’s party and Abigail wanted to put up the Christmas tree which Jackie had borrowed us. Paul then turned up shortly after us he and some others had asked for a refund. Paul was later told by a guy that he had seen him on Gambian television as they had highlighted the race and disagreements