Meet your IM CDA Race Captain!!!!!
That's me!!! Been drafted by Race Director Stark to lead you sorry turkeys to IM glory so don't let me down. I will go easy on you all as long as you follow a few simple rules:
- No visible compression gear in public, that's a violation.
- Post race everyone drinks a beer.
- Race captains never pay for beer
- Everyone has fun.
Ok mainly kidding about the rules, or on second thought, they all seem pretty good to me.....
Honestly, I don't know what the F I'm doing so will try to keep things as fun as possible. I hear it's an easy gig. Post-race at the brewery, need to find a pre-race dinner location, plus lots of other little things.
We also have this smartphone app called Beluga which will mainly be used for race week to communicate amongst ourselves as well as our families. This way RnP can let our families know where they are, what they are seeing, etc. Our families can also use it to communicate during the race as well to each other. We just need to get everyone signed up into it.
Please let me know if you'd like to be invited now so you can check it out. It has messaging and mapping functions. It's a neat little toy if you are into those things. We can play with it along with the discussion groups if there is interest.
I don't have much else right now. Feel free to destroy me now.
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Congrats Captain! Do your Captain Morgan pose!
As I have no family coming with me this time, I plan on running right from finish to the brewery, stinking pants and all.
tucker,
thanks for serving in this role. very generous of you.
sincerely, gh
Also, I was going to experiment with compression socks, actually just the calf guards, as the socks helped during the winter UNDER MY RUNNING PANTS...aka, out of visible sight. However, they seemed to help, so, I was going to give them a shot on some of these long runs...please don't eject me from the team if I make a race day decision to roll with them!
@ Tucker, I'm glad you clarified your rule regarding compression gear as I was about ready to start a mutiny
. It's good to have you as our race captain!
Can I get my Beluga with a side of vodka?
Alright, I just kidding...even thought that is probably actually pretty comfortable.
Here is my email...kurshing@aol.com...for the Beluga thing? Thanks for your work!
*While I am no fan of domestic macro brews, this is mostly water anyway, so seems to be the appropriate choice
@ Art, I'll probably already be stumbling to the finish line, so I think I'll hold off on the beer until post race. I like the big mac idea. Just put some french fries in your bento box and you'll be set.
@Art: 20 ounce?! Just take the whole six pack!
http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/misc-gadgets/bike-6-pack-holder/
Love the bike holder!
Tucker:
Thanks for doing the RC gig! I knew you would make it fun! Between you, Peter and Carly you will have it all covered!
All - jump on the Beluga app and starting playing with it. Works for iPhone, Android and just text if you don't have a smartphone. We used a similar app at IMAZ last November and it was very, very cool. Great way to keep everyone in the loop all week long and for general smack talk.
Beluga will be the (almost) exclusive team comms channel for Rich and Patrick druing race week at EN IM events this year.
Again, big thanks to Tucker for being da Man.
John
EN Race Director
I just downloaded the Beluga app on my phone. How do we get connected in Beluga? Is it just a matter of friending each other on Facebook? My email is allen@peakportfolio.com.
I didn't like the whole facebook aspect of it either but they do own Beluga now so what can you do. Apparently if you went through the web there was a different process.
my email for the beluga deal is:
gilberto.hernandez.jr@gmail.com
thanks!
GH
Tucker - congrats and good luck on being our fearless leader. My email for beluga is: james.r.price@usdoj.gov. Thanks!
Welcome Rob! I just moved from Richmond last year!
Here's my email for the Beluga jtthompson@optonline.net