On the trip home I learned the following:
- Tinari spelled backwards is "I ran it". Now that is cool :)
- George Gluppe spelled backwards is Eppulg Egroeg. Not so cool.
- Reed backwards is "Deer". Appropriate as Dave runs gracefully like a deer.
- The handles above the doors in a van can come in very handy when navigating tight mountain roads while George is driving.
- GPS devices are very cool. But why the hell at 10PM, we got off of I5 heading North to go on a sightseeing tour of downtown Bellingham and then got back on the I5 15 minutes later do not know.
We stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere to get some dinner. I thought pizza would be good so while the others headed to Subway I popped into the pizza store next door. Since we were in a hurry to get home, I enquired how long it would take to get a pizza. "Five minutes" I was told by the kid behind the counter. Then, after pausing, he added "but you have to cook it yourself". WTF??? Where the hell am I going to find a pizza oven? I don't think the cigarette lighter is going to do a very good job cooking my pizza. Apparently, this pizza joint is quite popular in the US. I thought the whole idea of going out to get pizza was that you didn't have to cook.
Now I am really dragging things out here. Dave's bib # was 800 - pretty cool for an 800m runner. My bib # was 642, which was only significant in that the sum of my finishing places was 6 (two third places) and I am 42 years old. Spooky.....
Now how cool is this race? M40 200 Meters "Johnny Speed" running against "Rod Jett". I think I am now going to officially change my name to "Warren Whizzer"
M40 200 Meter Dash
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Name Age Team Prelims Wind H#
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1 John Simpson M42 Corsicana, TX 23.42Q -1.6 1
2 Aaron Thigpen M43 Brentwood, CA 23.69Q -1.0 2
3 Johnny Speed M44 Oxnard, CA 23.70Q -1.0 2
4 Andre Freeman M44 Carlsbad, CA 23.88Q -1.6 1
5 *Christian Lemassif M41 Canada 23.72q -1.0 2
6 Felton Turnage M42 San Marcos, CA 24.23q -1.6 1
7 John Garratt M41 Santa Monica, CA 24.50q -1.0 2
8 Rod Jett M41 Sacramento, CA 24.87q -1.6 1
9 Todd Freitag M42 Kennewick, WA 47.44 -1.6 1
On that note, I shall now go and watch the Olympics. Thanks for reading!
Woz