Outside the fence, on Winner Avenue, Rogers Avenue and all the other roads around historic Pimlico Race Course, people walk, drive, talk, roll past, yell, banter.
Often during the early days of The Orange Rhino Challenge, when I found myself struggling and wanting to quit because I felt it was too late to stop yelling and that my kids would always remember the awful times I had yelled in the past, I would find myself thinking of my wedding day and that moment at the back of the church.
Approaching one clutch of Citibikers, I shifted into sixth gear, raced past, yelled at one to "choose a lane," and said to myself, "So long suckers".
As they sit, they recall their past and yell at those who stop to watch them.
Standing close to their yellow motors - mostly variations on an Eighties Lada theme - they yell 'Taxi!' as you ski past, just in case you want a lazy lift back to your forest lodge.
The type of people you invite will also determine how mellow your party is; if you invite people who have been known to yell a lot in the past, it will not really be very mellow.
Outside, a man drove past slowly and yelled, "Murderers".
He then moved to the cameraman, lifted him, and yelled at him before pushing past and diving into the water to retrieve his boat.
"I heard a few shots, some screaming, then nothing for 15 minutes, but saw police cars driving past and people yelling with flashlights," said Mr. Braxton, 36.
