TAN #29 The case of the disappearing TAN (Page 78)

well, thank god for that.  You have maintained a little respect!  .

Nice work getting out there.  proud of ya....

Congrats!!!  

chadtower - 2008-06-19 10:28 AM

crowny2 - 2008-06-19 1:25 PM That is awesome. Great feeling isn't it. Wait till you do all three together.

 

Can I assume it is normal that several times during the course to be unable to come up with a valid reason to be out there and be convinced that when you're done you'll never do it again? I was actually stronger on the run than I thought I'd be. I thought the bike was going to take more out of me because it's literally ALL hills.

If that happened, I would never have finished a race.  It's normal to think over a 100 times that you WANT to quit, but I have never come up with an actual valid reason TO quit.

Sweet.  I checked this morning and they weren't.  Going to check now. 

Uh, shouldn't go through the lost and found for event pictures, just stick with the ones they find for you.

Worst picture I've seen of myself in a long time:

http://brightroom.com/view_user_photo.asp?PID=&EVENTID=37871&PWD=&ID=52304901&FROM=browser&START=566&SHOW=50&CAT=0&SUB=0

What I normally look like: 

http://brightroom.com/view_user_photo.asp?EVENTID=37871&PWD=&ID=52304540&FROM=photos&BIB=22 

Beer and trivia - that's the ticket to improvement! 

chadtower - 2008-06-19 12:28 PM

crowny2 - 2008-06-19 1:25 PM That is awesome. Great feeling isn't it. Wait till you do all three together.

 

Can I assume it is normal that several times during the course to be unable to come up with a valid reason to be out there and be convinced that when you're done you'll never do it again? I was actually stronger on the run than I thought I'd be. I thought the bike was going to take more out of me because it's literally ALL hills.

On my first one, yes.  I was miserable.  Mainly because of calf cramps.  BUT, it didn't discourage me.  Made me want to go out and do better on the next one. 

So - tell me this - what ever happened to phone manners.  When I call someone - at a business, not my buddy - I say "this is John from so and so, I was calling to speak to so and so, is s/he available?" 

I get phone calls all of the time where people say - "John - do I have any carpet coming this week?"  and that's it - not who it is or what store they are calling from or anything.  I am not sure if they expect me to recognize their voice or what, but it happens with people I have never spoken with before too.  I have a way of getting around them thinking that I don't know them, but really, isn't it just good manners to state who you are when you call someone?

People's phone manners do suck these days.  A lot of people are still surprised when I ask if I caught them at a good time. 

Of course.  I would say that it's still the norm to do that, but there has been a rise in the incident you mentioned.

I will have a client call, and start prattling over some project.  I have to interupt them and say, "I'm sorry, but could you please tell me what project you are even talking about"?.  I think they forget that I have dozens that I manage concurrently.  To them, their's is the only one that exists - which I understand, but they need to understand it's not the case for me.  However, I try to make sure each client FEELS like their's is the most important to me....

Well, you ARE only working on ONE truck right?  And it's their's, so who ELSE could it be!

I'm guessing about the same as a $40 jersey, except for the little label on the left sleeve.....