hook line and sinker.

Will, a new addition to Team Timex this year, who is an avid Xterra-racing nut, sure made camp interesting. After doing push-ups in the fire pit our first night in town, he showed up to dinner the next night in a full lycra home-made superhero suit. It had stirrup pants. Did anyone know they still made stirrup pants? At the bar after dinner, I told him I needed a picture. He decided to show me how to stand like Captain Obvious (his alter ego). It went like this: Shoulders back, hands on hips, stomach in, and chest out - and I fell for it. The camera flashed at chest out, of course.

I found this photo amusing and decided to try my hand at photojournalism.. or pimping, whatever you want to call it. Here I am, getting my assistant's costume in place and discussing strategy.

And then I started asking the girls on the team if I could take their photo with Captain Obvious. They all said sure and went right up and put an arm around him and smiled. And he said, no, no, let me show you how to stand like a superhero. Shoulders back.. and so it went:

Camp was really busy this year, and I feel like I only got to catch up with half the people I wanted to.. here's the gang sober(ish).

I did get a quick visit in with Kirsten and Beth at the lululemon store in Carlsbad. Lots of shopping was done.. and the lululemon tramp stamp that I sported during the race (it's a little high, but it's hard to tramp stamp oneself.. try it sometime) was recorded forever. Look for Kirsten in a certain magazine's swimsuit issue coming soon..

Chris, the 70.3 Age Group World Champ, dominated the mens 35-39 once again in Oceanside. And then, after the round of tequila shots I unwisely invested in at Fidel's, he and Roger said something about wanting to be on the blog or something...

Now I'm back in Hawaii.. it was a 4 am wake up in California, an 8 am flight, 1 pm arrival and work until 8 pm. I got about ten minutes in with the kids before I passed out. I left my suitcase open on the garage floor, which is pretty much just begging the cats to pee in it. But I'm too tired to care. That's it for fun photos and fun stories, because now it's back to life as usual..

The last of the race photos: the sand made up about a mile of the run and was not that fun to run through..