My hamster won the Petco regional in San Diego!!

Hey just wanted to let you know that my hamster, Ham*Star, won the Petco
regional Hamster Derby races in San Diego today.

There were 16 entrants in all. She was in the first heat and won it easily.
There were 2 other heats with syrians and 1 heat with dwarfs. Then the
winners of the 4 heats matched off in a final race, and Ham*Star won that to
take overall first place! The heat-winning dwarf failed to finish and was
exhausted by that point.

The track was only about 8 feet long, definitely not the international 10
meter course. Some hamster owners let their hamsters get too tired by
practice running them. I only let Ham*Star do a few practice runs. Track
alignment is also key -- the start is the most important part of the race.

Overall it was a great time. I was amazed to see so many hamster owners
there today.. it was too bad that not everybody entered their hamsters
because I must have seen 2 dozen there.

Congratulation! I've been waiting for that all month and totally
forgot about it today! Good point about not tiring them out before the
race.

I wanted to enter, but wasn't sure if I would (if I went). Were the
entrants' owners mostly kids or were there grown ups there, too?



On Mar 31, 9:06 pm, "Zarky Zork" <zorkyz....RemoveThis@bonkaloo.net> wrote:
> Hey just wanted to let you know that my hamster, Ham*Star, won the Petco
> regional Hamster Derby races in San Diego today.
>
> There were 16 entrants in all. She was in the first heat and won it easily.
> There were 2 other heats with syrians and 1 heat with dwarfs. Then the
> winners of the 4 heats matched off in a final race, and Ham*Star won that to
> take overall first place! The heat-winning dwarf failed to finish and was
> exhausted by that point.
>
> The track was only about 8 feet long, definitely not the international 10
> meter course. Some hamster owners let their hamsters get too tired by
> practice running them. I only let Ham*Star do a few practice runs. Track
> alignment is also key -- the start is the most important part of the race.
>
> Overall it was a great time. I was amazed to see so many hamster owners
> there today.. it was too bad that not everybody entered their hamsters
> because I must have seen 2 dozen there.