Dexter and Marmadaddy's Group: CLOSED (Page 13)

Yeah is is all about streamlining and technique...next time go without the suit at all...you will take off another 2 minutes...you may end up in jail...but it could be worth it......LOL

HNewman - 2010-02-02 11:11 PM Awwww. Thanks! But just the beginning. Do I hear February?

Charity of choice: Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan.

If we are doing Feb, I will kick some butt.  I rejoined WW on line and swear that I lost 3lbs in fluid yesterday.  Mental probably but I couldn't pass the bathroom without going.  TMI but you guys can handle it. 

Heather, I looked in to GOTR Greater Detroit and emailed Lindsay.  They do not show up as a chapter option for Chicago.  Should I maybe just go with GOTR international?  It asks you to choose a chapter.  I am waiting for Lindsay to respond.  I would feel better if I felt like my running had meaning.  Its not like I'm there for any other reason, like BQ or because I want to PR.  I just want to finish strong.

To sign up to raise funds for GOTR for Chicago, you go to the GOTR website and that takes you to ACTIVE to register.  They ask you to pick the chapter that you are raising funds for.  Your Southeastern Mich. chapter is there as is Berrien County, Greater Lansing, Battle Creek, etc.   There is no Greater Detroit option. 

I would love to do this.  I am hoping that I can direct my fundraising to stay in Michigan, it would be nice if it was in my county but I might have to direct it toward your chapter.  That would be okay, right?  You all wouldn't turn down some money. 

We've all been a little quiet.  I hope everyone's week is going well.  Any challenges for February?  Its not too late to start. 

One of many embarrassing moments, but the most recent in history as I seem to have a lot of them.  If nothing else, I should get the most-entertaining athlete award.

Women's Only Tri/Du in Sylvannia Ohio last year in July.  Lets start off with, I am a geek who would ride her bike with a basket with flowers and a bell if I had them to add on.  Many of my male teammates have told me to take the reflectors off my bike.  I like my reflectors.  I want to add more.  I went to do the Sylvania tri with the intention of setting a bike PR on a flat course.  There was this awful clicking sound coming from my front wheel.  Click, click, click, click.  My computer wasn't working so I thought it was the magnet or something.  I figured out that it was my reflector after a few miles.  Every volunteer I passed asked me if I needed help or what was wrong with my bike.  I was still cruising though, on my way to a PR, passing people and having a riot, laughing at this noise.  A group of women sped up to "ride with me".  They were sprinting to get up to me (I am not fast so these were not fast women, newbies).  The group caught me and said "we are trying to keep up because you sound really fast".  I told them it was my reflector not fast wheels that was making that sound.  They named me the "clicker queen" and followed me to transition chanting "CLICKER QUEEN, CLICKER QUEEN".  I dismounted in transition, and my bike locked.  As soon as I dismounted, the reflector had wedged in the fork and locked the front wheel.  I ended up doing a cross-bike carry to the rack.   As I finished the run, this group of women were there again chanting for me (I walked most of the run because of a gastroc tear that was healing).  I saw my coworker on Monday and she had done the same race.  She said, "my husband said there was a woman who's bike was making an awful noise.  Did you see her?".  I re-introduced myself to her as the "clicker queen".  For the record, my husband took that reflector off and lectured me that the jam in my fork could've happened when I was riding and I am lucky I didn't go flying off the bike.  Lesson learned. 

Oh, and the lesson learned before this was don't carry beer in your waterbottle during a race.  That is a whole nother story. 

Clicker queen  was my moniker for about 4 months on BT.

Beer story (seems appropriate with superbowl tonight):

Corktown 4 mile 2009- Its an Irish run.  Its a beer run.  Many of my teammates at talked about carrying beer, camelbacking beer, etc.  Race day, I was the only one who came ready to run with beer. Sort of like thinking its a costume party and being the only one to show up in costume (blushing).  I was determined, afterall I had brought it and didn't bring water.  Who knew that when you run and bounce up and down that beer would foam out the top of the water bottle?  Not me.  I'm a wine drinker.  I'd run 0.1 and have to drink, run more, drink more.  I think I wore more foam than I actually drank.  I was laughing so hard, because the THOUSANDS (the run happens before the St. Patty's parade) were cracking up  at me and egging me on to chug that I ended up peeing myself.  I don't know if anyone could tell but I'm sure that I smelt wonderful on the ride home (beer and pee, my husband is a lucky man and a kind one, he never said a word).  Lesson learned:  Try a camelback this year.

I'm bumping us back to the first page.  Knock, knock, anyone there?