I need your help.......
Wrastlin' Around in Denver.......
Well, it's time to get fired up because we are less than 84 hours away from the start of the 2007 Hunger Ride.
Man, I can hardly believe it!
I rolled out of Memphis Friday afternoon with my Ford Ranger stuffed full with all the necessities for the summer.
After a brief stop in Sanger,TX this weekend to visit two of my best friends from college, Grant Edwards and Craig Debell,
I now sit in the great state of Colorado, awaiting departure for the V-Couv on Wednesday morning. (Vancouver,BC)
Here's the schedule for this week:
Tuesday: Hang out in Denver, last long bike ride, get bike boxed up for the airlines, hang out with Team Denver (my Denver riding buddies that will be meeting up with me in San Fran)
Wednesday: Fly to Vancouver,BC in the morning. Get settled in the hotel, put bike together.
Thursday: Hang out in Vancouver. Last minute bike check. Get in a short ride. Carbo load for the first ride.
Friday: The 2007 Hunger Ride begins. Day 1 is about an 80 mile ride from Vancouver to Burlington,WA.
How will this summer be different from last summer.......you may be asking yourself?
Well, I'm traveling about half the distance of last years' trip for starters. 3400 miles compared to roughly 1800 this year.
In addition, I will not be carrying any of my gear this year. I've found some fine volunteers that will be doing that.
And let me tell you, that's a HUGE burden off my back.
However, I would like to draw your attention to what I believe to be the most significant difference between this summer and last summer.
My threads.
As you can see from the picture above, I will be wearing a wrestling singlet for most of the summer as I ride. The biking community calls it a "bib," but let's be honest.......let's call it what it is, a wrestling singlet.
King Kong Bundy and Andre the Giant without question took this outfit to another level back in the 80's when they wrestled for the WWF.
So why wear are you wrestling singlet, you ask?
It's simple. You eliminate a waistband and all of the irritation/chaffing that goes with it. That will save me a half a stick of "Body Glide" when it's all said and done.
But more importantly, I'm not going to lie to you.....I've always wanted to wear a wrestling singlet. (It's actually every man's secret desire in life.)
For me personally, I've just never had a reason. I did watch a lot of WWF wrestling as a kid....a little too much actually as Dad and Mom had to impose a time limit (60 min) on how much I could watch on television. If I remember right, they created this law in the Rand household because of some article they read in the Milwaukee Journal about some kid watching what turned out to be a little bit too much wrestling. Apparently this kid, let's call him Johnny, not only watched wrestling, but he taped every episode, re-watched each episode in slow-motion, and perfected each wrestler’s finishing move. Consequently, Johnny put his older sister in one of these moves that he had learned and she ended up in the hospital. I remember being pretty hacked off at Johnny, thinking to myself, "Thanks for ruining it for everyone, pal....now I can only watch 60 minutes a week because of you."
Incidently, I did wear a singlet once for 7th grade wrestling practice at Harry Horning MIddle School back in 1991. One might say that my days as a wrestler were short-lived. Literally ten minutes into my first practice I got slammed onto the mat by Andy Lapp. I sat out the rest of practice (I cried in the corner) and never came back. To this day, it's still the only sport that I've ever quit at in my entire life.
Alright Alright.......Why do I tell you all of this? Well, for one very important reason. I figure that if I'm going to be wearing a wrestling singlet this summer, I'll need to have a wrestling NAME, despite the fact that I won't actually be doing any wrestling.
That's an insignificant point though.
So, here's 4 potential names........I'll need y'all to pick which name you think would be best suited for me this summer. Please e-mail me with your TOP CHOICE.
Here's the list that we've come up with:
1. "The Exercisor" (my finishing move would be "jumping jacks" or a seated "bicycle kick" to my opponents face or mid-section.)
2. "T-Bone" (my finishing move would be first distracting the referee as my agent would then hand me a dog bone carefully hidden under the arena mat that I would then use to clock my opponent on the head with. Just as the referee became "undistracted," I'd pin my opponent.
3. Terrible Tom or T2 for short. I haven't exactly figured this guy out yet....but I'm thinking that this character a) should not bathe more than twice per month b) eat a steady diet of garlic and raw onions c) should not have any sort of vocabulary whatsoever.....only grumbling, moaning, shouting.
4. Other???
2 Comments:
Okay, Macho Man Randy Rand. I like that you're growing your beard out...it makes you look like the evil Hulk Hogan during his NWO days.
Hello Tom, Stephen, and MR. Douglas, hey have a great first day of the Hunger Ride, We are praying for you and cheeering you on from back in cheeseland.
Tom, our vote for you name is "Fred the Exterminator".
Love,
Dad & Mom
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