Beating John Curley
So it’s been ages since I’ve written anything in this blog and if I’m going to pick running there are definitely more interesting developments like my recent marathon, ultra marathon, or even forgetting my shoes at the Cougar Mountain race this weekend, but instead, dedicated reader, you get ibeatjohncurley.
Apparently John Curley is some local news personality, who’s willing to pay thousands of dollars on wheels for his bike, one-upping me in his stuffwhitepeoplelike quotient. All I know is there’s this deal where you can run some upcoming race and if you sign up to beat him, he gets a 3 second handicap on his start and if you *do* beat him, you get a free Brooks technical shirt and get entered in a raffle for $1,000 to go to a charity of your choice at the awards after the race.
He ran the Fremont 5K last Friday and finished in 22:50 after what appears to be about a 2:00 handicap (40 challengers earn a 3 second handicap each for a net of 2 minutes). Seafair has 46 challengers at the moment, which means Planned Parenthood has pretty good odds on getting that $1,000 on race day.
Howard said,
June 15, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
Err, didn’t you go all stuffwhitepeoplelike on your bike years ago? Or did you forget about the thousands of dollars and minutes you spent at the bike shop?