Carpool-4

Kelli and I carpooled again today. We have our last and final Baby Class tonight, “Baby Care and Parenting” after work.

So on our way to my work, it occurred to me Kelli was supposed to pay our tax guy for our taxes from April. She hadn’t in 3 months so I did. However, since her farm stuff drug our taxes way down and we weren’t getting a return I told her this was her responsibility.

“Kelli, you owe me money”, I said.
“For what?”
“Taxes that I had to pay for you.”
“Oh.” she shrugged, “How much do I owe you?”
“$100”
She then digs into her purse, pulls out her wallet, she rummages through and finally hands me a $100 Bill. “There. Are we even?”

I looked at her quizzically as this is not a normal routine to have $100 bill just whipped on a whim for us. “What? You said a hundred, right?” she asked

“I guess,” with a confused and scared look as I stuff the $100 into my pocket to bring my total money count I have on me to $101.15.

It just goes to show, I never know what will happen carpooling with Kelli.

Touring Cyclist Biathlon

I completed the 4.5Mile Run and 23Mile Bike race today.

4.5M Run = 0:36:17 for a 8:27 Pace
23M Bike = 1:21:26 for a 16.9 MPH Pace
Total Time = 1:57:43

This did not get started on the right note. I showed up late and was putting up my bike as the lady was counting down “5, 4, 3, 2, 1!!” I started my watch put the rest of my gear by my bike did one attempt to touch my toes stretch and started running to the start line. I officially started in dead last.

I’ve never done this race before but found it was a very hill course and provided a formidable challenge that I will hopefully do next year. At a few points the hills got so steep I thought my legs were going to explode both on the run and bike. I ended up finishing 62 of 119.

Not great, not bad, but all in a days work.

Inaugural Clubhouse Triathlon

What a hoot!

I was race director and my wife took over the role as head coordinator because she said she didn’t like the way the race director was making decisions. (I’m so lucky).

My goal was to have a dozen (12) people participate. Our official count was 26 total triathletes with another 4 people who only did certain parts of the event. I better then I expected. I even had shirts made by Kelly Tracy who owns/operates Kelly Tracy Advertising and Design, for a total count of 47 shirts, volunteers wanted the shirts as well.



Credit should definitely go to my Kelli’s family who not only kept the excitement of the race going and filled over half the field, but also had the area/land to do this. There was already a buzz about next year once the event was finished and sitting in the shade eating burgers/brats and drinking beers.

Finish Time
# Name Type Start End Time to (Next) Time to Finisher (First) Finisher
16 Ed t 0:00:00 0:43:49 0:00:00 0:00:00
34 *Tim* t 0:00:00 0:45:30 + 0:01:41 + 0:01:41
19 Evan t 0:00:00 0:47:54 + 0:02:24 + 0:04:05
2 Mike G t 0:00:00 0:49:06 + 0:01:12 + 0:05:17
28 Laura t 0:00:00 0:49:40 + 0:00:34 + 0:05:51
12 Clare t 0:00:00 0:50:16 + 0:00:36 + 0:06:27
26 Kyle A t 0:00:00 0:50:38 + 0:00:22 + 0:06:49
18 Erica t 0:00:00 0:51:10 + 0:00:32 + 0:07:21
24 John L t 0:00:00 0:53:06 + 0:01:56 + 0:09:17
33 Scott t 0:00:00 0:53:08 + 0:00:02 + 0:09:19
23 Joe L t 0:00:00 0:53:21 + 0:00:13 + 0:09:32
20 Grant t 0:00:00 0:53:27 + 0:00:06 + 0:09:38
21 Jackie t 0:00:00 0:53:28 + 0:00:01 + 0:09:39
31 Melissa t 0:00:00 0:53:35 + 0:00:07 + 0:09:46
13 Collin t 0:00:00 0:56:08 + 0:02:33 + 0:12:19
9 Amanda t 0:00:00 0:56:11 + 0:00:03 + 0:12:22
27 Kyle S t 0:00:00 0:59:56 + 0:03:45 + 0:16:07
22 Jake t 0:00:00 1:01:53 + 0:01:57 + 0:18:04
30 Megan t 0:00:00 1:08:13 + 0:06:20 + 0:24:24
11 Christinet 0:00:00 1:12:05 + 0:03:52 + 0:28:16
36 Team D.A.M.r.t. 0:00:00 1:13:53 + 0:01:48 + 0:30:04
14 Andy t 0:00:00 1:13:58 + 0:00:05 + 0:30:09
8 Alyssa t 0:00:00 1:23:05 + 0:09:07 + 0:39:16
15 Deanna t 0:00:00 1:23:05 + 0:00:00 + 0:39:16
17 Emilie t 0:00:00 1:23:05 + 0:00:00 + 0:39:16
1 Larry t 0:00:00 1:23:30 + 0:00:25 + 0:39:41
3 Mikey Joeb 0:00:00 DNF
4 Oscar b 0:00:00 DNF
7 Lucas s 0:00:00 DNF
10 Brian t 0:00:00 DNF
25 Kevin t 0:00:00 DNF
29 Lisa t 0:00:00 DNF
32 Ryan t 0:00:00 DNF
6 Tom b 0:00:00 DNF
35 Jeff DNF


Many thanks to the Volunteers. Congrats to all that completed the event, and we’ll see you next year.
Tim

July 4th

Wednesdays 4th of July’s are strange. It just doesn’t feel like the 4th because rather then being in party (or rather fun energetic) mode it’s like a Sunday because you have to work the next day.

What happened strange,…oh yes, it stormed. Not just any storm though. Where I enjoyed the 4th of July day it stayed dry yet had a lot of clouds all around us. This also kept a nice breeze on us the entire day with hardly any humidity which is strange for the Midwest (St. Louis Area) until 7:30 when the weather finally broke, and then it was humid. So that was strange.

Ok second we were eating BBQ, and as mentioned before it was storming all around. Well this was my first time I’ve ever heard Horizontal Lightning. It went right over our head. It was pretty wicked and freaky all in the same breath. A few dogs got scared but the ones who go duck/goose hunting could have cared less, which was kind of funny. A few ladies ran inside, but to hear the lightning travel overhead was quite different.

The guys didn’t go in however. Nope, we were too tough, too macho, and too stupid.

Tim