Barloworld Team Thread (Page 7)

Thanks for the kudos - there is one picture in my race report, as well as a link to the official results with my name in it in my blog.  I guess I'll have to get some in an album too to make it "happen"

Hope the injured barlo-ers in this thread heal quickly.

I must proudly announce that I completed the savageman bike course today, and I'm signing up for the race tonight.  You have to be a special kind of sick to want to suffer like that, but I think I'm that special

By the way, it was also my longest bike ride ever!

You guys are super, super, SUPER!

We are wrapping up an explosive first week of TdF here at BT, filled with all kinds of firsts and honors for the newbie Barloworlders.

Josh v1.0 blasts his first tri and perseveres in the face of mechanical difficulties.  Also bikes the crazy course of and signs up for his first HIM! That’s savage, man, savage. J

Josh v2.0 has a deer blast his bike and perseveres in his triathlon--and unending, inimitable good cheer.  Picks up a friend named Keith as a BarloDisciple.

Chrissy blasts a training PR—a 1:12:40 split for 15.93mi on a hilly, technical ride.

Mark’s son Zack blasts onto BT with his first post at the tender age of three—on the Barloworld thread. Mark exercises that most difficult of training strategies--holding back and saving for some serious mountains here at TdF and at home waiting for BarloBabe!

Judi blasts ahead and stays in the lead for completed stages, AND blows up the water on her first open-water swim!

Dolores blasts through her first brick … without blasting her legs!

Yanti blasts out her longest ride ever—without a drinking problem.

All of us have done things this week that we have never done before, and I imagine that some time ago we would not have thought possible. You guys are TRUE CHAMPIONS. It takes, as Josh 1.0 says, “a special kind of sick” to get over that greatest of barriers—a first step in a new direction.

You ROCK my BarloWORLD.

Yes!!!! As Cat said, Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez takes FOURTH in Stage 7!!!

It's so funny ... a lot of the newsfeeds have been adding words like "surprisingly" to the stellar performances that newbies Barloworld have been putting out.  Me ... well, like with our Barloworld team, there was never a doubt!

I think it's great that a pack of wild-card puppies with experience and budget only 1/10, even 1/15 of the hotshot teams are kicking such .

I was talking about us, of course.

You're an awsome team leader, and very humble... but I for one think your own PR ride should have been on your list of accomplishments for Barlo.  I do have to say, it is quite a list of accomplishments as a team!  And TriAya... thanks for the quote... I like it more now that you've said it.

Just for my beloved Barloworlders ... I did have a major first today, something a lot more startling to me than my cycling PR ...

So, there's always a gazillion pics of me, because my friends are a bunch of happy shutterbugs and we do a lot of events/social/sports stuff (oh, and I'm an attention hog). My coach just posted a bunch of pics of our AIDS Marathon training groups, and I kept looking through them, but couldn't find any with me.

I looked harder at the ones with people from my pace group and with great shock realized that the normal-sized girl in there was me. That's why I couldn't find me. I was looking for the fat chick and she wasn't there. I am sure other people haven't thought I was fat for a long time, so my body has been making the transition, but my mind finally caught up. I have a ways to go, but I didn't know until today how far I'd come.

I know a bunch of us have some serious before 'n' after pics, and all of you, for overcoming whatever your personal challenges have been, have my deepest respect.

Edit: I was going to point out who in the group pic was me ... but you get to look for her, just like I did

(BeforeNAfter.jpg)

TriAya - huge congratulations on your achievement... and to everyone else... this team seems to be setting personal milestones all over the place!

This is just a quick reminder that reporting for the challenge is Monday (USA time) so TriAya can get the results to me on Tuesday for an update on Wednesday.

NB: TriAya either post them in the team leaders thread OR email them to me... whatever is easiest!!

Also feel free to mention any of the teams personal achievements to so they can be included in the update  I think this team has a lot to mention....

Kudos to triaya for her accomplishment!!!

And kudos to team barlo for a sweet first week of the tour... the fact that we're on page 6 and the next closest team is on page four speaks loudly, methinks.  What it speaks loudly about is another matter, but here are some possibilities, all of which make me proud:

• we talk way more smack than any of those other loser teams
• our team spirit far exceeds those other loser teams
• we are a bunch of idiots (woo hoo)... but that's better than being on a loser team
• we ride so much that simply reporting our rides put us 2 pages in front of those loser teams
• our enthusiasm cannot be tamed, unlike those loser teams
• those loser teams are riding too much to have time to post in their team threads

Josh 2.0 - you da man for sticking it out despite your less-than-ideal circumstances.

Phew - at least now I don't need to be afraid of having a beverage from wurkit's fridge after our DC/Virginia team barlo group ride (which by the way, we need to pin down a date or all of our schedules are going to be too full).

Thanks everyone for checking in. Chrissy--congrats on the brand spankin' clean kitchen! (There are creatures living in mine ... shudder)

Just remember, as Cat (kaqphin) said--whatever's been in your logs beginning last Saturday up through the end of today is what I'm reporting. Make sure it's all good and you'll be credited for all the CRAZY HARD RIDIN' you've been doing!!!

Way to BUST A MOVE BARLOBEASTS!