For once the bike pictures turned out alright! I think the aero bars make a huge difference in the coolness factor. Plus, they put the photographers at corners, so I look like a bona fide badass cornering. I didn't realize I leaned that much when I turned. I was still pedaling in THIS picture, so imagine how cool I'd look on a REAL turn!
Sorry folks, I just don't smile at the cameras. My face in the pictures is exactly like my face looks during the rest of the race. I didn't realize till I was weeding through other people's race photos today how many people actually DO smile at the camera. They almost all look like real fools.
Then I had to run. You can almost see on my face how much I am fearing running the next 13 miles. What's going through my head? Running is stupid. Running is stupid. Running is stupid. Running is stupid. Running is stupid. Running is stupid...
And then the finishing photo. My arms look like I'm going fast. The picture almost cuts off low enough so that you might imagine that I'm actually picking up my feet, but then...
(cue stabbing theme from psycho)
(cue stabbing theme from psycho)
...I look like I have...
...AN ENORMOUS GUT!
In other news, I finally got around to pirating some of the pictures from other races recently. There were some pretty great pictures from the Charles River swim, but for some reason they don't seem to be on the web site anymore. The good news? I'M the picture they chose to represent the finish line! Look how hard it was raining! I had to walk back to the subway in that!
And then there was the Cranmore Hill Climb. I was hoping for some pictures of how it was POURING, or the fog, or the mud, but most of the pictures were just from around the finish line. But you finally get a picture of Grandpa (although I'm starting to suspect there are actually 2 grandpas that look alike):
And now my favorite picture ever taken of me: On this one I'm coming down from the first loop, I'm soaked to the skin, I'm running down a trail that's muddy and wet and about a 25% grade, I'm wondering which will happen first: I'll fall down, or my pants will fall down, and then this putz appears with a camera. THIS is the face I made when I saw him:
8 comments:
With the headlights on, no one's even going to notice the huge gut.
:-D
Love the picture of you coming down the hill. I would probably look like that without hamming it up for the camera.
heh...
Runing down the hill that pic is priceless, it's like the "Help me I'm being chased by rabib natives with blowguns." scene from Raiders, alright now that I've proved I have no life back to work.
mmmmm. Neoprene.
**oops. did i say that out loud**
Gut? What gut? I was blinded by the high beams! What is it with exercising and its effect on the headlights? You look totally bad ass in those bike pictures, and the rain in that river swim is insane. Good for you for swimming in that!
How did you get your photos from capstone, I'm having issues.
I'll give you $50 to enter your next race as "Nip" (a la Elaine on Seinfeld) but only if it's a race where they put your name on your race number and everyone will be cheering for Nip.
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