[Tithers]

FINALLY we get to meet Mr. Meri.<br><br>
I saw that you did awesome at the 50k...ROCKSTAR!

 

[TheProFromDover]

Amazing – maybe not, but…<br><br>
1 – I’ve flown a few times in an A4. This is the plane flown by the Blue Angles for a while. Serious straight up, upside down, butt clenching 6 G’s, negative G’s, oxygen mask, helmet banging canopy flights. (As a passenger.)<br><br>
2 – I built a 1939, 80 Cu. in. foot clutch Harley Davidson, from the ground up, crankshaft to mirrors, a la Orange County Choppers (before it was cool).<br><br>
3 – I pulled a VW Beetle engine, start to finish, in 17 minutes.<br><br>
4 – In the summer of 2003 I had never run a race longer than 5M or a training run over 10M. With the encouragement of a 6x marathoner I jacked up my mileage, ran my first marathon, in October, and BQ’d.<br><br>
5 – In 2004 I could not swim…at all. In 2005 I did my first tri’s, and in 2006 completed Timberman Half Iron (in a frigin’ storm!).

 

[Thor]

My dad's better than you. He used to pull the engine regularly, like on a monthly basis, in 16:59.59. Damn thing was always breaking down.

 

[caffeinated]

1. I'm a recovering alcoholic/addict. 11 years sober.<br>
2. Despite #1, raised three kids (20, 18, 16) who don't smoke or abuse.<br>
3. My lying, cheating ex-wife is still alive.<br>
4. At 40, I'm in the best physical shape of my life. (This after two wars and 20 years in the Army.)<br>
5. I'm in love with my current wife. (Pretty amazing to me. There was a time I didn't think love was real, other than for children.)

 

[neil donnelly]

Great Thread a lot of Amazing people out there but I knew that anyway- tougher to think of the amazing things rather than the weird ones - I always find it difficult talking myself up<br><br>
1 I love to cook and for the last 6 years we have never had a pre-prepared meal in the house (except one that I pre-prepared and frooze)<br>
2 I spent 2 weeks in Belize doing EYe Examinations (Belize has no Eye care at all) and carried out over 1000 examinations and know that I saved the sight of a bunch of people - I still keep in touch with one of the kids<br>
3 I sang Live on Italian TV in front of the Italien Prim minister and the Pope and then met the Pope afterwards in the Vatican<br>
4 DW Choose me I still find that amazing even after 16 years and 2 super wonderful boys<br>
all 3 of whom I would walk over hot coals for .<br>
5 I have Represented Great Britain at Triathlon<br><br>
N

 

[mmoonptdeux]

Ahhh, you're the lucky one! Glad you're here<br><br>
Met her briefly at one of the aid stations at the Philly Marathon. Really nice, and it blew me away when I found out that she had an ultra the day before volunteering

 

[BethR]

I just thought of something about myself that is probably both amazing and weird -<br><br><b>Neither I nor my husband own a cell phone!</b><br><br>
We bought a cheap one that we could just add minutes to when we were contracting the house renovations, but it broke shortly after the house stuff was done, and we never got it fixed or bought another one.<br><br>
We also don't own IPods, and just upgraded to DSL from dial up a few months ago.<br><br>
This is all probably more weird than amazing - maybe it deserves to be posted in both threads!

 

[kristine25]

I just have to bump this thread up and say how sad it is that the "weird" thread gets 90 responses and this one gets only 26!!!<br><br>
Come on people, everyone has something amazing about themselves and we should all stop for a moment and think about what those things are!!!<br><br>
But I will admit the "weird" thread is quite entertaining!!

 

[Econo]

I love reading these! ([{|group hug!|}])<br><br>
1. I'm an excellent mimic, and pick up languages quickly<br><br>
2. my son (age 14), is the nicest kid ON EARTH<br><br>
3. 11 year breast cancer survivor (diagnosed at age 34; ugh!)<br><br>
4. due to swimming & some push-ups & chin-ups (not much, really), I'm gaining upper body muscle definition and looking kinda hawt!<br><br>
5. tomorrow I'm gonna break my half marathon PR <img alt="cool.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/cool.gif"><br><br>
oh, oh, one more! The apple pie I bake LOOKS like carp but tastes...to die for.

 

[RunningForT3]

Good luck Econo on your HM!! You'll do awesome!!

 

[pcsronbo]

This IS hard. It takes work to brag! DW had to help me, I could only come up with #1!<br>
1. I've lost 92lbs once I decided to get off my arse.<br>
2. Even obese, I was a smokin racquetball player (top 4 in fraternity intermurals.. as a sophmore)<br>
3. I'm a private pilot (it was tough finding an instructor under 110 so we didn't exceed the plane weight limits!)<br>
4. I've got a BS in CS and (2) masters degrees (MBA, MPM) and a bagillion computer certs (A+, N+, MCSE, CCSW, CNS, CCNA, blah blah blah). And I promise (see other thread) I only got straight A's my LAST semester. I pulled 27 credit hours and got a perfect A+ average. I realized if I DIDN'T then I'd have to stay another semester - NO WAY! MO-TI-VATION!<br>
5. I've owned and operated my own business since I was 15 and I think I'm broken and could never get a real job. Had a few, didn't care for 'em. In biz now 21+ years. In the computer industry, that's "like forever"

 

[Dougie Fresh]

Yes, this is hard so I am going to grasp at straws here:<br><br>
1. I've averaged 204 for a season in a bowling league, tried out for Team USA when bowling was a demonstration sport in Seoul in 1988 and bowled NCAA for one semester. That was all before age 20.<br><br>
2. I've played beach volleyball with/against two silver medalists and one future gold medalist. (Can this be any further from #1???)<br><br>
3. My undergrad major started with 120 people, graduated only 35 and I was #5 academically and didn't even know it until graduation.<br><br>
4. I've seen double since birth because of a defect with my eyes. As a child I had three operations and had to *learn* depth-perception (which made #2 harder than it should have been!)<br><br>
5. I used to be able to leg-press the entire rack on the leg press machine at the gym - 10 times straight. Now *that* I want to get back to. I have no idea how much weight it was but I remember the trainer telling me he'd never seen even the 'roidheads do that. (No knee or back problems back then!)