A Great Weekend... and Another Win!
Last weekend was another great one with the boom boom girls. I swear, I couldn’t be luckier to have a great group of friends like them. We are all so unique, yet get along so well.
I flew into Nashville, TN on Thursday night, and then drove down to Decatur, Alabama fairly late. STIHL gave us all suites at the Country Inn hotel! Thank god, because it was too hot to do anything other than sit in our rooms!
I did a media appearance with Jenny on Friday morning, and managed to fall in on the boom and make an idiot of myself. But hey, I’m good at that. During the day Friday I picked a few folks up at the airport, and hung by the pool with Katie. Normally, I would love a day hanging by the pool, but when it’s over 100 degrees and humid, even the pool isn’t refreshing. I got some great reading in though. One of my clients John Kovalic writes comic books. I finally got the time to read some of them, and I just LOVE them! He’s a very talented man.
Saturday and Sunday were hot days of competition. We were all so close it was amazing. Luckily I pulled it off on Sunday and was the winner. But man were we all close! The difference between first and seventh place was under one second! I was most impressed with Lizzie, Olivia, and Maggie’s boom running. Lizzie stepped it up to hold the fastest time of the weekend, but I lucked out with the brackets. Olivia has finally turned herself into a rock solid boom runner. No more trips for her! And Maggie had one of the most amazing runs of her life, despite the fact she doesn’t have anything like a boom run out in Hermosa Beach, California. I still don’t feel sorry for her though, she gets to live in Southern Cali!
Sunday night we drove into Madison, Alabama (Decatur doesn’t sell liquor on Sundays… bad for them, we could have done quite a favor for their local economy!) and I was DD as usual. We took over a little bar, and had a blast! I got to meet some pretty cool new folks, and laughed my ass off watching the others play flip cup. This little Alabama town didn’t know what hit it!
So now I’m back in Madison, and training hard for the next three contests this year. Only three more! Summer totally flies by.
Upcoming contest dates:
Saturday July 15th: Waterford Valley Contest - La Crosse, Wisconsin
Friday July 21st – Sunday July 23rd: STIHL Timbersport Finals, and ILRA World Championships – Stillwater, Minnesota
Friday July 28th – Sunday July 30th: Lumberjack World Championships – Hayward, WI
And log rolling classes all summer long here in Madison!
Here is a short write-up about the event:
http://www.stihltimbersports.com/current/2006/dailyrep_decatur2.html
Last weekend was another great one with the boom boom girls. I swear, I couldn’t be luckier to have a great group of friends like them. We are all so unique, yet get along so well.
I flew into Nashville, TN on Thursday night, and then drove down to Decatur, Alabama fairly late. STIHL gave us all suites at the Country Inn hotel! Thank god, because it was too hot to do anything other than sit in our rooms!
I did a media appearance with Jenny on Friday morning, and managed to fall in on the boom and make an idiot of myself. But hey, I’m good at that. During the day Friday I picked a few folks up at the airport, and hung by the pool with Katie. Normally, I would love a day hanging by the pool, but when it’s over 100 degrees and humid, even the pool isn’t refreshing. I got some great reading in though. One of my clients John Kovalic writes comic books. I finally got the time to read some of them, and I just LOVE them! He’s a very talented man.
Saturday and Sunday were hot days of competition. We were all so close it was amazing. Luckily I pulled it off on Sunday and was the winner. But man were we all close! The difference between first and seventh place was under one second! I was most impressed with Lizzie, Olivia, and Maggie’s boom running. Lizzie stepped it up to hold the fastest time of the weekend, but I lucked out with the brackets. Olivia has finally turned herself into a rock solid boom runner. No more trips for her! And Maggie had one of the most amazing runs of her life, despite the fact she doesn’t have anything like a boom run out in Hermosa Beach, California. I still don’t feel sorry for her though, she gets to live in Southern Cali!
Sunday night we drove into Madison, Alabama (Decatur doesn’t sell liquor on Sundays… bad for them, we could have done quite a favor for their local economy!) and I was DD as usual. We took over a little bar, and had a blast! I got to meet some pretty cool new folks, and laughed my ass off watching the others play flip cup. This little Alabama town didn’t know what hit it!
So now I’m back in Madison, and training hard for the next three contests this year. Only three more! Summer totally flies by.
Upcoming contest dates:
Saturday July 15th: Waterford Valley Contest - La Crosse, Wisconsin
Friday July 21st – Sunday July 23rd: STIHL Timbersport Finals, and ILRA World Championships – Stillwater, Minnesota
Friday July 28th – Sunday July 30th: Lumberjack World Championships – Hayward, WI
And log rolling classes all summer long here in Madison!
Here is a short write-up about the event:
http://www.stihltimbersports.com/current/2006/dailyrep_decatur2.html
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