Is everyone afraid of lumberjacks?

[rockjock]

I just checked and I didn't see a single Teamtbb member signed up for Ironman Coeur d' Alene.  Can this be true?  Is everyone afraid of lumberjacks and therefor shunning the only full Ironman event in my neck of the woods?  Honest, lumberjacks aren't that bad (a bit smelly perhaps but generally nice people). 

Oh wait...there's that other one on the same day...what is it?  That little one...oh yeah...France.  Well, if you'd rather race France well then, I guess I can understand. 

 -Kevin

[Jocelyn Wong - "Wongstar"]

in college one of my cross country teammates I lived with was a lumberJILL from Wisconsin.  she was a world class log roller and got invited to all these international lumberjack competitions!  what did they call her event, the "boom run" or something like that.   

actually I was pretty dead set on doing IM CDA this year, but as I don't have my USA pro card yet, I tried to get in the old fashioned way...through Ralph's, which sold out before I signed up.

so lucky me, I get to go to China instead!!   

[rockjock]

I think that worked out pretty well for you Jocelyn (good luck in China!), though it would have been cool to have you at CDA.  Maybe we'll see you next year.  It can be an interesting course.  They've had 98°F races as well as 3+ foot waves in the lake but the bike course is really nice.

Seriously?  A lumberjill? I've lived in the US Pacific NW all my life and I can't say I've known anyone that did that stuff.  Very cool. 

[Beck]

Call me culturally challenged (or something like that), but what is a lumberjack? 

[KT]

A picture is worth 1000 words:

http://www.zanzibar.ca/Webtools/images/D'Arcy/Lumberjack.JPG

[Jocelyn Wong - "Wongstar"]

yeah good deal huh?  my college tri coach, Michael Lee, lives in Spokane and we've been talking about me coming up to do the race for YEARS.  but hey, team management said "come race in China!" so who am I to argue?  

and yes, really, a lumberjill!  surprisingly she wasn't a big bulky girl who ran around in flannel or smelled bad (like the guy in KT's pic, LOVE IT!), she had a lean runner's build with somewhat of a gymnastics upper body.  actually the two of us were sort of like the "fat" girls on the team because we actually had muscle unlike the anorexic skinny ass runner girls.  

[rockjock]

KT that is an AWESOME photo.  If he were wearing one of those floppy eared hats (or a tuque) he'd be perfect.

Beck, a lumberjack is a logger but in olden times they were...well pretty much KT's photo - burley guys that used axes and saws to whack down big trees.  You know, pancake eating, tobacco chewing, tree lifting manly men!  Anyway, Idaho, where the IM CDA is held, has a pretty rich lumberjack history.

I'm glad you stuck with Tri Jocelyn.  The image of you in flannel and carrying an axe is kind of frightening.