Taking a Break from TNT

So since I will need to take a Saturday class for grad school (boo!), there's no TNT participation this Spring season (we had thought about doing Tahoe as captains). Stay tuned, though...

Coming up:

• Doing the largest triathlon in the US?


• Binni as a TNT coach?


• Chris does a half-marathon?


• Spring wedding endurance madness

In the meantime, happy holidays to everyone!

Tapas Party

Last Saturday Chris and I had a tapas party fundraiser (for Team In Training) at our friend Kelly's house. It was a huge success, and we made way too much food, as usual. 3 rounds of food - appetizers and munchies, main dishes...the hot food, and dessert. Those who had never been to one of our parties before thought the first round was it for food...they know better now.

On the menu were 6 types of crostini, cherry tomatoes stuffed with crabmeat, olives, stuffed mushrooms, an apple and manchego salad, Piquillo peppers stuffed with goat cheese, chorizo with mashed potatoes, mussels, meatballs in a tomato sauce and a blue cheese sauce, garlic shrimp, and a chickpea stew. For dessert, Chris made chocolate rice pudding, caramel sauce, kit-kat bars ala Citronelle, and flan. The flan was out of this world. Like I said, it was a lot of food.

Sorry, no pictures this time. We were so busy cooking and plating food that I totally forgot about taking pictures.

Oh, last thing...Chris and I have signed up for our first 2008 event - the Cherry Blossom 10-Miler on April 6.

El Tour de Tucson Recap

It's been a few weeks since we participated in El Tour de Tucson, and it's definitely time for a recap of the event. First, a picture of Chris and me before the start of the ride and on the ride:
It was the 25th anniversary of El Tour de Tucson and 10,000 riders were registered. With that many riders, it took us 30 minutes to cross the start line. Once we got out of downtown Tucson, the ride was beautiful...The course, a little hillier than we originally thought, took us through Sagauro National Park, passed an airplane graveyard, and across two dry riverbeds (where we had to lift our bikes and walk). And of course, there were cacti everywhere.
This is the back of Dave's jersey; the boy in the top, middle is his son Chris, our honored teammate (and cheerleader).

Since El Tour de Tucson, we've been to Houston for Thanksgiving and back to Tucson for a wedding (Congratulations, Frank and Kathleen!). Now, we're back in MD/DC and have no races planned for the rest of the year, but 2008 is right around the corner, and I just heard that registration for the Cherry Blossom 10-Miler opens next Tuesday!