Philip LaVoie’s Blog

… the gang’s all here.

After IMLP i thought i was hanging up the wetsuit, helmet, & shoes. Not so fast, pal. Toughman here in Westchester (our backyard for training) is to take place tomorrow Sunday Sept. 13th & there was a lot of the local and not so local gang throwing down for it. Kate gave the nod of approval to open the doors of the house to them and in a moment of weakness, on both her and my part, said, “if you want to do it, sign up”, and I did. So here’s the resting order of talent we’re going to have in the crib:

Arriving yesterday, we have:

• Ironman Bobby – @ironmanbobby (of the famed http://www.ironmanbobby.com video podcast twitter )
• Katie (his GF and climber on a mission)

Today’s arrivals include:

• JH – @j_hirsch (ring leader of the C.R.E.W. – not running the course, but our professional sherpa 😉 http://johnhirsch.org
• Guru (aka Christina) – @holisticguru (the holistic goddess of awesome) http://www.liveandeatbetter.com/
• Grant – @gaidner (a dude to watch & front man for doing the right thing) http://www.teamcontinuum.net/

Now we just need to find the local man who has been hiding waiting to spring on us like Kato:

• Javier Gomez – @crash_gomez (yep, that one. Not the other one 😉 http://www.operationironman.com

It actually snuck up on me faster than i thought it would with the shorter work week and being in training for 50% of it and some longer days. This is quite the treat to have some good friends from around the intertubes hanging out.

I think there may even be some puppy hunting going on… so I’m oiling up the guns.

As for my training status, let’s just say that i have never been as tapered as i am for this race (as if you couldn’t tell from the posts).

~ by philiplavoie on September 12, 2009.

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