University of Chicago Polar Bear Run 2009
Since 1983, the University of Chicago has celebrated a week-long festival in January called Kuviasungnerk or just Kuvia. Kuviasungnerk is an Inuit (Eskimo) word that means "the pursuit of happiness." The festival is an attempt to chase away winter blues.
Today's photos are from Kuvia in 2009.
Each year, the festival ends with the Polar Bear Run, streaking across the university's Main Quadrangle from the steps of Harper Memorial Library (above) through Hull Gate on the other side.
The Kuvia bear mascot also participates.
Roughly half the runners go fully naked except for shoes and socks.
And a few extreme runners even go barefoot.
Another barefoot runner.
Here's that last barefoot runner after the race is over, talking to a girl painted like a Piet Mondrian painting.
Another runner after the race.
And another giving us a rear view. Hey, guys (and gals), it's January in Chicago! Time to get your asses back indoors!
Here's to kuviasungnerk (the pursuit of happiness)!
8 comments:
thanks i like this ive seen this photos somewhere in the past now i saw it again.
How fun!!! Nothing like that ever happens around here - in Sin City.
Perhaps it was a post about Kuvia that I ran three years ago. It had photos from other years.
Being naked is definitely a contribution to being happy!
Love watching a floppy cock.
The ass in the last image is to die for!
Great to see this here. Glad to know it happens (ed). And thanks for these
Nude winter running. An acquired taste.
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