After some thinking, I decided to run this as part of team chippy rather than on my own. What a great decision. Got to the race site and met the other BT'ers who were hanging around waiting for the start. I skipped my start in the scarlet wave and joined the others in the gold wave. I'll leave most of the details to the other reports, as I'm sure they'll be more entertaining than mine, and just point out a few highlights:

1) The moron who, around mile 3, decides to bomb down the hill at a full sprint nearly taking out me, Liz, and a few others, and then has the audacity to talk smack to us. Passed him at the bottom of the hill as he stood there, hands on knee's, catching his breath. Exchanged a few words with his dumb ass, started to walk back to where he was, and, at rkreusers urging, let it go at that. What kind of idiot does that near the back end of a jam-packed marathon, at mile 3??? Seriously, WTF?

2) Listening to Shannon's rendition of "Baby got Back" around mile 19, as it spurred Chippy through her ITB issues to crank out intermittant 8:30's pace. Girl got some speed when she wants to. Shannon and I looked at each other with a little concern, not knowing if we were going to be able to keep up. Shannon- "I didn't sign up for this!" :)

3) Watching the Rorshack (sp) sweat designs materialize on CubeFarmGopher's shirt. The dude was a human salt lick, seriously-check out his pics: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/photos/photo-thumbnail... :)

4) Lane showing up with cookies right where he said he would. Dude, you rock.

5) A mile later, washing said cookies down with HHH beer.

6) Hearing to some dude around mile 23 say "hey Ironman, your calves are a work of art". Umm...thanks dude, but your kinda creeping me out.

7) Listening to Aaron talk to every Marathon Maniac out there, and all the people who recognized him from other races.

8) The general mahem and horrified stares from onlookers at the conversations between Shannon and Trixie :)

9) Sharing the finish line with such a wonderful group of people, especially those who were first timers. You did great! :)

Nada

Getting lost at the finish festival...