Mark Your Calendars: BRS Hot Tub Time Machine Challenge

SPC Davis (aka God Dam Old) wrote that he found a “blackmail photo” of me in an old shoebox, from when I was 20 years old. 20, when I used to stop by Eastman to pick up my sister on our way home for thanksgiving break and eat steak and eggs at a breakfast joint with SPC in Rochester. When what kept me going day to day was the idea that the future had to be better than this, causing me to miss the fact that my prime had somehow passed me by undetected and it was all downhill from there. Did I have an inkling that I would find myself in this endless loop, another hellish work week like every other hellish week, getting blitzed on boxed wine as soon as the front door shuts behind me, then eating a bowl of ramen noodles balanced on my gut while reclining in my underwear in front of some cooking show on cable?
At that moment I was contemplating the best way to get the hell out of town for my 40th birthday, only 3 months from now. I could be one of those middle aged people reading a cheesy paperpack with an umbrella drink sitting by herself at a beach bar. Or, I could use this opportunity to cram another event into the BRS calendar, after an early end to this season.

Here’s the pitch: Hot Tub Time Machine. January 2-4 at a resort somewhere in Oregon that has a hot tub. Music selection: all 80’s. Must bring incriminating photos from your early 20’s. Screening of title film. TBD: painful athletic challenge and food/drink challenge. Open to suggestions….. party complements of Gerald (aka God Dam Older than SPC)

BRS Guest Speaker?

I like this guy:

http://roadtripnation.com/BruceSchwab

If you combined everyone at BRS, you might end up with him.

SBS - September's Big Swig

So my google images search for "swig" led me to this pic of Chris Mullin. Why, I don't know, and I really don't care. Chris Mullin is my favorite basketball player of all, ALL time...

September's Challenge. Swig Big, but not as big as Chris Mullin would have done. Each week you must drink at least, but not more than:

1) A six-pack of beer + bottle of wine

2) 2 six-packs of beer

3) 2 bottles of wine

Quantities don't have to be precise, just neighborhood-ish. If this seems arbitrary and capricious, then welcome to BRS monthly challenges!!!

BRSCI X (in pictures)

Last weekend was the BikeRunSwig Cycling Invitational (2010), a welcome taste of leisurely (relative) bicycle touring after the hellish TdM a few weeks back. I think we have all agreed that this pace is nice, stopping for beers along the way. Looking forward to more adventures, perhaps next time we can dispense with our cars altogether and pack everything we need on our bikes.

BRSCI-X

Tomorrow starts the first day of my first opportunity to host a major, the so-called Bike Run Swig Cycling Invitational '10 or BRSCI-X. We'll be spending the next two days touring some of the prettier areas of this side of our state. Tomorrow exploring some of the farmland around Burlington, Sedro Woolley and then over near Edison/lower Chuckanut. From there we'll be able to spy on our next route (and the event highlight) slated for early Saturday morning, a tour of Orcas Island culminating in a climb up to the top of Mt. Constitution. Then, lunch schedules and ferry schedules and the gods' smiling favors permitting we hope to have enough time to fit in a nice ride from Deception Pass around North Whidbey Island. I'm hoping we can see some of the Prowler squadrons in maneuvers as we skirt NAS Whidbey. There won't be any mistaking if we do, they are loud!

I think we are all good on t-shirts for swag (thanks TdM, EO, DC, you are more than half of my tshirt wardrobe now) so CI participants will receive custom etched bar pints. I think I set the quality bar quite low so that they will be easy to improve upon in coming years.

No One is Purrfect

So my TDM predictions were off a little this year. So what? I've got more important things, like taking cat naps and stealing tortillas chips...

Congratulations to theGuth. This year's 2010 TDM Champion AND KOM!!

Overall, a great Tour, especially considering the wet conditions. Plenty of hills, pain & suffering to go around, but nothing bagels & beer couldn't fix. Thanks Skirtsteak for outstanding support!

Confirmation

Meow - My name is Kotek. I am the guardian of Jorge's Stein. Note how I do not speak in all-caps or bold outline like my less-civilized brethren. I have to concur with NeeshaCat's assessment of this year's TdM. Team S has got it in the bag... or should I say stein?