Saturday, December 19, 2009

Long Beach Urban Fitness Challenge

I was invited by Cory to be a member of his team for the Long Beach Urban Challenge. I will admit I was not very excited about doing this race because I have not been to the gym regularly for the past month.


http://urbanfitnesschallenge.com/

This is our Pre-race photo. The tall person standing next to me is Nick, he is one of Cory's former students who was home for Christmas from MIT (he plays water polo and is only 21). Then there is Cory. And on the end is another Nick who is a kick boxer who goes to the same gym as we do. We were all fresh and clean here. Eli got in the photo so that Paula could take it. I think that he thought that he was going on the challenge.


To start the challenge we were given some instructions. Paula had not left yet, so she photographed us reading the inital instructions. We were still fresh and clean here.
3 hours later, some kayaking, some biking and many miles of running down this is what we looked like...
I have to admit that I was not really excited about this challenge, but it was a lot of fun. I would do it again. We were the second fastest team. We actually won first place in the race because the team ahead of us did not follow the instructions on the first challenge. Out team followed all instructions, ran the whole way and still beat the rest of the teams. It was a very fun day!! Thanks for the invite Cory.

Friday, December 11, 2009

First time out of JFK airport in New York

December in Manhattan... all I can say is cold, cold, cold... I am basically freezing my axx off.
Fun city, but frigid in December. This is cold looks like in the day.
This is cold looks like at night.