Author: Cathy

Tagged

Zappoman tagged me while I was in Death Valley and I am a little late responding. I apologize in advance to the four people I tagged.

Jobs I’ve held (in somewhat chronological order. Many overlap)

  • City Planner research assistant
  • Architectural Intern / CAD Operator / AutoLISP Programmer
  • Hoddy. Mixed and hauled mud for adobe/stucco construction
  • Architect
  • Bike Mechanic. (The job, along with programmer, that I am best at, but by the time I was 36 my hands couldn’t take wrenching full time.)
  • Ski tech. (A bike mechanic has to do something in the winter.)
  • Dishwasher
  • Rental bike fleet manager and camp resident manager
  • Web designer/HTML coder
  • Web/DB programmer

Movies I Can Watch Over & Over (While there are lots of movies I like, it is rare I want to watch a movie many times.)

Favorite books (Yep, I added this question. It was a glaring omission really.)

My Guilty Pleasures

  • Electronic gadgets and computers.
  • Running shoes. Seems like every time I find a shoe that fits it’s discontinued so I am constantly searching.
  • Books … though my Safari subscription has dramatically slowed the growth rate of my book collection.
  • Beer, especially home brew.
  • Dark chocolate.
  • Dark coffee.

Places I Have Lived

  • Oklahoma
  • Texas
  • Connecticut
  • New York City
  • Colorado
  • Vermont

Shows I Enjoy

  • Versus/OLN series Fearless. No longer on. : ( Short biographies of contemporary athletes. The episode about B.A.S.E. jumper, Jeb Corliss was one of my favorites. Karen Smyers and Pat Tillman are permanently on my DVR.
  • Discovery I Shouldn’t Be Alive.
  • Discovery Man vs. Wild, but the name of the show offends me.

(Favorite) Places I have Been on Vacation

  • Rio Lagartos, Mexico
  • Greek Islands
  • Paris
  • Switzerland
  • Krueger Park, South Africa
  • Death Valley

Favorite Foods

  • Macaroni and cheese. Unfortunately there is no good vegan substitute.
  • Bird bars, vegan muffalettas, almond macaroons, yummy vegan salads and anything else vegan from my friends’ bakery
  • Gingerbread and brownies from my friends’ bakery. Unfortunately they’re not vegan so I live vicariously by giving them to friends and family.

Websites I visit Daily

Body Parts I have injured

  • Collarbone broken when I was 4 jumping off the top of a slide
  • Both shoulders injured in bike crashes.
  • Broke hand falling down stairs.
  • Tore meniscus in knee falling down stairs. (Different fall)
  • Compartment syndrome in AT compartment while running ultra
  • Stress fracture in right foot.
  • Scar on forehead from being hit by a golf ball during a high school match. It was a drive on a hole paralleling the one I was playing, Fortunately it bounced once before it hit me.

Awards You’ve Won

  • Boring stuff. Mostly school and golf.

Nicknames you’ve been called

  • Kramer, as in Seinfeld. I used to have hair like his.

Pick 4 Other Bloggers…

Who invented compression shorts?

Terry MillerI was having dinner at a neighbor’s house yesterday evening. After we ate, I read an article about the host that had appeared in his hometown newspaper. There was a short paragraph mentioning his idea to use a girdle for running back Terry Miller’s recurring hamstring issues because ace bandages kept slipping off. I saw Terry Miller play many times when I was a kid, but I never knew he was wearing a girdle!

I said, “I think you invented compression shorts!” He replied that Miller had no more hamstring problems after he started wearing the girdle. He also said several articles had been published about Miller’s girdle. I found this one that appeared in Time Magazine in 1976. My neighbor is Dr. Donald Cooper. For many years he was the head physician for the Oklahoma State University Athletic Department. He was also the USA team physician for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and was a long time member of the President’s Council on Fitness. (He also said that when my foot has zero pain my stress fracture is healed. ; ) )

Does anyone know of another candidate for inventor of compression shorts? It is not like Dr. Cooper is going to make any money off this, but it would be interesting to know if he was the first person to come up with this idea.

Home

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I thought about putting a question mark after that, but it is home for now. This was the view driving into the valley yesterday evening.

George, Leigh and Bonnie outside Panamint.Bonnie and I had an incredible adventure. Bonnie stayed with a wonderful family in Lone Pine, while I worked with the Badwater race staff. After the official event was over, Lisa Smith-Batchen and her crew welcomed Bonnie and I to their team. Lisa was not able to complete the solo double this year, but her amazing crew ran a relay from the finish line back to the start line. You can read more about the relay on Lisa’s blog.

If you can spare a dollar or ten for MPD research please consider donating through Lisa’s FirstGiving page.

Thanks to Mike Ehredt for the photo of George, Leigh and Bonnie.