Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 I'm tired of runnin' let's walk for a minute....So apparently I'm asking for more bodily pain and aspire to have insane goals that I would laugh at in others (laugh at in a "You're out of your mind" kinda way). Well, I'm planning on doing a triathlon in September.
Now, before you remind me how much I loathed running the marathon 2 years ago (or how much I asked you to remind me how much I loathed running the marathon 2 years ago), I'll point out to you that the distance is substantially shorter. It's a sprint distance, meaning 500m swim, 20k bike, and 5k run. So technically, it's only ~3 miles running, not 26.2. Those crazy Ironman peole can just go ahead and be crazy.
But so far, I've thoroughly enjoyed the training. It's a nice variety to decide which discipline to do on any given day. And I'm comfortable being able to do any of the separate legs on their own. It's just putting them together I'm not all that sure about. I went biking last Friday and did ~16 miles and discovered what my weak leg is going to be. Man do I suck at biking. I'll ignore the fact that it was up into the 90's when I went.
So I'll keep you posted about the progress of the training. Suz and I have a bike/run on Sat, and hopefully it's not as mother-truckin' hot then as it is now, or else we're going to be doing our training before the sun comes up. And if I have issues riding a bike in the daylight, I think riding in the dark might be hazardous to my health.
They had the Lifetime Fitness triathlon on tv last weekend too. I got incredibly inspired. Allthough I'm guessing that I'm not going to be running any 5:30 minute miles (and that was the chicks!!).
