Ready….Set….Go!! And they’re off! Thousands of drag queens sprinting, dashing, toddling, waddling, and some pitter-pattering in full-blown elaborate costumes down 17th Street in Washington DC for the annual 17th Street High Heel Race on October 28, per MSN.com .
Washington Post reports that this racing actually started back in 1986, but the fun of the competition didn’t start until last year when Pacers, a local running store, offered to officially time the race.
The race, which takes place every year in the historic gay neighborhood of Dupont Circle, requires participants to wear a minimum of two-inch high heels and run the entire quarter-mile race as reported by America Blog . If you fall; get up, shake it off and get back to running.
The record-breaking time was set last year by William Dennis, aka Inertia Dolce, at 42.89 seconds. The slowest time is 15 minutes.
What started out years ago as a small event has now grown into a huge ordeal. John Arawosis with America Blog states he goes every year and is amazed to see thousands of people showing up at the race, ” including mostly quite-amused straight people,” he adds.
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