Me, TNT and beer

Evidently, around the TNT circles, there is a association between me and beer.

Now, seriously, I am not sure how or why this association ever got started.

Sure, in the early years of my TNT training, there were a couple (ok, some, no wait, most) of runs I may have been out until 2 or 3 in the morning Friday night.

But damnit, I was there. I never missed a training session because I was out drinking the night before.

Well, there is another member of the KC area TNT circle that started ttraining around the same time I did. And I just found out last Sunday that several of our running mates have been all but taking bets each Saturday for the past two years on which of us would be the most hungover for each training run.

Now, I am not always a competitive person.

But seriously, had I known there was this kind of competition going on, I may have tried a little harder. Stayed out a little later. Had a couple more drinks on Friday night. Because while he maybe much faster than I am out on the trails, I am pretty sure I was the better drinker.

It's such a shame I had to hang up mybeer stein for tri-training.

The next association came from the recruiting meeting Saturday morning. There were two TNT alums speaking at the recruiting meeting, me and Courtney. Well, I also spoke at the meeting where Courtney signed up and she reminded me of this little gem.

I guess that at the recruiting meeting from last January, while stressing how, with the TNT training schedule, you don't have to give up everything to be successful and you don't have to change your lifestyle to be successful, I just may have said something along the line of "Look at me. I have completed 3 marathons following the TNT schedule and the Goofy Challenge in the past year and I still drink beer".

Amazingly enough, they still invite me back to speak at the recruiting meetings.

And for the record, Saturday morning, all of the people that attended the recruiting session signed up.