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Hey, I didn't know we made serious posts around here.  Am I in the right mentor group thread?

 The key is to look good out there!  My moto.... If you can't race good at least look good!

By the way Matt, nice photo.  Good job with the female sandwich you've got going on! 

Amen to that brother!! I used to have long hair and cut it because it looked dorky when I would transition from bike to run.  Now of course, with a hat on I look like a chemo patient with no hair (no disrespect intended).   That's what happens when you are a cheerleader. It's less important being dropped on your face, as long as you looked good while you were in the air!!  I'll have to dig up some old photos of me during my cheering prime to give everyone a good laugh. We might even forget about the little visitor inside Steve's face

Those are some other BT'ers.  There were about 7 of us there (at the race, not in the picture - but you probably figured that out)

I am missing something about pictures Matt?  I don't see them...

The nose is no longer a issue!  I think it was a false alarm...

Good idea on the hair.  My wife (also a cheerleader in her glory days) did the same thing for the same reason....

Rob,

I happen to think bald men are hot.  Yul Brunner and Jean Luc Picard are two very extreme hotties.  And yes, I am a total trekkie.  I once had the Star Fleet Academy decal on my car. A guy pulled up next to me and asked me where that school was.  "San Fransisco of course," I said.  Now if you are not a trekkie that was completely lost on you.  But the point is, bald me rock!!!!

By the way, no one said they knew what my bike was named after.  Another piece of great literary work.

Live Long and Prosper!

Technically, his LATEST broomstick was the Nimbus 2001, but I won't get picky  

These are the voyages of the mentor team swbkrun. Its mission to seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no nose has gone before.......................... last joke I promise!

I am curious, what does everyone do for a living? Or more accurately, what are we suppose to be doing while we are surfing BT?

You're off the hook on knowing the Potter stuff because you have a kid in that age bracket, not sure there is an excuse for the Trekkie stuff.

For a living - I work as a Systems Analyst for a hospital system (6 hospitals + OP clinics and imaging centers), mostly w/ healthcare information systems and data exchange projects.  (Who's the geek now!!!)

Have a great weeekend!!!!  GOOD WINE, GOOD LAUGHS, and LOTS OF R&R... Oh yeah, and SOME GREAT TRAINING!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck at the races to all racing!  KNOCK EM' DEAD... REMEMBER, IF YOU CAN'T BE GOOD, LOOK GOOD, and leave everything you've got out on the course!

Igo, great to hear from you!   Steve, Matt's female sandwich photo is the last entry on the bottom of page 26. 

As far as I am concerned, I am a teacher at heart, but had to leave teaching last year for family financial reasons. Currently I am working as a Quality Control Specialist for a biotech company.  So I am still in the world of Biology but it is not what I want to be doing.  I would love to return to teaching, but goodness the pay is bad.  So I am debating about being a domestic/triathlete goddess with a part time job, or just sticking it out where I am for a while longer.  But to be honest, if the opportunity to return to teaching presented itself, I would jump all over it.  Life is more important than money.

Every day I am soooo grateful I have you guys to share my time with. Triathlons are such a wonderful exerience on their own, but you guys have saved me from coming home in tears after work.  Thank you all so much.

Okay, sappiness over.  Best of luck to everyone racing this weekend. I am jealous. Such fun! 

Anybody seeing this time trial on the Tour?  It looks like Evans is totally choking. Go Vandevelde and Sastre!

Tracy, my wife has over 10 years teaching kinder, first, and second grade.  I have seen her first hand and she is as good of a teacher as she is mother and wife.  Unfortunately....as you mentioned, the pay stinks for what they have do deal with.  She has been at home with our now 2 children for the past couple of years but will definitely return to teaching. I think her current job title is domestic engineer.

I have been a corporate recruiter for Oracle the past couple of years and I love it.  The best part is I get to work from home with my family (and surf BT). 

Well Tri #3 is in the books for me, felt really good in all phases.  My wife and I were in the first 15 to go so we stayed around after we finished for about 30 mins but there were still people that hadn't jumped in the pool yet and we had to get back to the reunion so we had to head back.

We stopped back by on our way home and they had results up and I finished in 1:09 and some change.  LOL, I can't believe it, I think I finished 2nd in my AG from what my wife saw on the sheet.

Still waiting to see it posted online but I feel so bad that we didn't hang around.  Never placed like that before would have been cool to be there for it I think.

Will get my report up when I see the results since I didn't have a watch for the swim, I have no idea what my time was.

Tri #4 next weekend should be intersting doing them back to back like this.

Thanks, helps that it is a smaller event, lots of mtn bikes but hey I will take what I can get .  Still waiting to see official results.

She had a great time also, I think she took 20 mins off her time from last year.  I kept seeing her on the run and was worried she was going to run me down.  Good motivation, we are both pretty competetive at every sport we have ever played together.