Team 1 Donald's Defiant Dashers Bios/Info

[Big Vic]

Good afternoon Team 1. Hoping everyone is doing well.

I don't have any information for you, so we'll go direct to the bios.

Since there is a separate WISH Team bios/picture thread, please post your particulars there, and then post the link here. That would save on having to post it twice.

Here's mine (I'm towards the bottom of the page) Big Vic Bio

Take care.

 

[twotoohappy]

I'm excited for the challenge

Here's my bio link
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=22832565&posted=1#post22832565

Let the games begin

 

[windwalker]

Hi guys and pretty princesses.

Good luck with your training. I hope everyone has an awesome year.

Visiting Panda

 

[SamSam]

I'm excited to be part of Team 1. Here's a link to my bio.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=22847327#post22847327

Go Team 1

 

[goingthedistance]

One of these days I will create a bio and post the link here, but time is always precious.

Just wanted to check in. Oh, and BTW, we are going to win this thing. I am looking at doing 2-3 marathons this year, and am being recruited to run a 50-mile ultra (not committed to doing that one yet) so that should help our mileage totals.

Paul

Go Team 1!!!

 

[nepatsfan73]

Hi Team:

No time for a full bio, but will give some quick background. I am a very overweight male who just turned 45. I am happily married to my DW of 18.5 years (although, in that DW is stuck with me "for life," I am not sure if she is "happily" married ). We have 4 very active children, 3 DDs and 1 DS. By trade, I am a litigation attorney in Connecticut primarily practicing in the areas of intellectual property and commercial litigation.

After getting brand, spankin' new titanium hips over the past 2.5 years and having several surgeries to get one of them right without the presence of infection, my chronic back problems decided to also cry for some attention. I decided I needed to get back in shape so, at the risk of being committed by my wife, decided the best way of doing this was to take up distance walking, even though I was having problems walking up a flight of stairs and standing up straight. I planned to do the WDW half this year, but reality slapped me in the face and I begrudgingly bowed out. My goals still include making it to WDW marathon weekend and I hope to do at least one half marathon this fall, the ToT 13K and be a lean, mean, endurance event machine at WDW in January 2009.

I am happy and proud to be a member of Senior Master Sergeant/Captain Vic's team and hoping his 11 month Butt Kickin' Boot Camp has me at the starting corrals in January. I also hope he can expectorate as well as his clippie persona.

(OK-maybe I did have time for a full bio.)

 

[Minnie]

Hi Team

I haven't posted a bio and do to a family understanding I won't post pics on the internet so I figured I'd post my story here

I joined the Wish team back in 2005 after following a link on where to stay during marathon weekend and have been here every since. I'm a divorced 33yr old mom of a 14yr old DS. I have an MBA and work as a financial analyst at a brand new factory for a large corporation.

To say the last few years has been a rocky road is well like saying Mt Everest is just a large pile of rocks I injured my back training for the 2006 1/2 marathon. Lots of chiropractor and physical therapy bills later an MRI showed a bulging disk in my lower back that presses on my sciatic nerve. As surgery scares the beejees out of me, I manage it with meds and stretching. This will be my 3rd time trying to get to the starting line of the 1/2marathon and I'm determined to make it

Looking forward to piling up the miles/hours with each of you

 

[SamSam]

Donald's Defiant Dashers is going to be a fantastic team! I'm enjoying 'getting to know' everyone.
Bill- my son is an attorney in California, as is his wife but she is not practising now. They have 5 wonderful children, so she is a SAHM for now.
Minnie- Hang in there, I'm considering the 1/2 so hopefully I'll be seeing you there.
Donald's Defiant Dashers Rock!

 

[wfloyd]

Since I don't have much time I will just post here and work on the big one later.

I am 35 and have been running for 3 years now. I got started after DW (Lynnda) completed the WDW half in 2005. I figured I could do it to and figured out a plan. Since then I have done 2 marathons, 2 half's, 1 Goofy, and a handful of 5k's and 10k's and a few other distances.

We have 2 kids who are growing way too fast right now. The oldest is starting to get excited about running and can go short distances and beat his parents.

Bill

 

[ironz]

Yay! I'm a Donald Defiant Dasher!!

Quick info, and hopefully I'll get something on the other bio post.

I "met" Big Vic by recognizing him from his avatar and jumping out to say hi while cheering at the marathon this year! Sorry, Vic...it was all about the margaritas by then!

So...I've been "active" since training for my first marathon in 1999. Got into triathlon shortly thereafter, and love it! Have run 3 marathons (stand alone), and completed 5 Ironman triathlons, with numerous shorter running races and triathlons along the way. I'm not fast, but I enjoy being active and fit.

Looking forward to this challenge and being accountable for training!

Oh, and I do contract work in health care, live in Texas (but travel a lot), and am an old maid. haha! ok...45 and never married. please don't ask why...I don't know!

 

[Hey Mickey]

Don't have time to post a full one, but I'm feeling left out so i figured I'd better post something:

Hi, I'm Erica *but not *that* Erica, as I kept having to explain down in WDW). I live in a 200 yr old house on the north shore of Long Island, which i am rehabbing in my spare (bwahahahaha) time. I have been married to my DH, Dan, for 16+ years, and we have 2 sons, Casey (12.5) and Matt (known universally as Mookie, age 9.5 (side note -- remember when being a half a year was still important to you?).

I am a lawyer, specializing in intellectual property litigation (because every team needs at least 2 of those, right? what are the odds). I left a big firm a few years ago to start my own practice so I'd have more time with my kids and to do other stuff. Unfortunately, it still keeps me busier than I'd like, but at least I have some extra flexibility to go on school trips and attend class plays and be there when they get home from school most days.

In addition to practicing law, I am currently getting my Ph.D. in psychology (my family calls it my mid-life crisis). I am in my last semester of coursework and then will just have the dissertation to do. Still no clue what i want to be when I grow up.

I found this board after the 2007 marathon -- I couldn;t help but notice the shirts and the message on them pulled me through several rough miles. This year, I went Goofy, and am now trying to decide on 2009 (boy, i hope Goofy closes out soon, because I am definitely w'vering but promised my family I would only do 1.

Ok, this got long. so much for not having time, huh? Can't wait to get out there and rack up the miles, because we are so going to win this thing!

 

[TnTsParty]

Yeah for Donald's Defiant Dashers (even though I got to love that Stitch team's logo )

I haven't had time to post a bio over on the other thread and I should just include a link to my blog but dang it I can't remember my address (LOL - smart right?? )

So here is a little about me. I am a native Floridian who has never really been that active besides dance in high school and a little bit of soccer here and there. Oh and that one year (8th grade) that I ran cross country (and sat down half way through the race!! Good thing my sister was there to run me in to the finish line) I am 35 years old and have been married to my DH Brian for 7 years even though we have been together for 12 years. My sister got me obsessed about Disney in 2004 (I had been numerous times as a kid and through high school grad nite) I have now got Brian obsessed with WDW as well. On a trip to WDW in Feb of 2006 I overheard a conversation on the bus - the lady had run the 2006 marathon a few weeks before and for some reason I got intrigued. I tried to "get into" running after that and ran my first 5k race. Shortly after that I gave up. Then June 13 of 2007 I decided I had enough of being a couch potato and I got out there and started running again. Granted I don't run fast and I don't run the whole time but at least I am doing something. I found my way again to the WISH board and really appreciate the teamwork and compassion on this board. Since June I have done 4 5k's and the TOT 13k and signed up for the Minnie 15k with plans of signing up for the 5k with my neice. And now I signed up for the full marathon in 2009. I am planning to sign up Brian and myself as a team for the Everest 5k and I am planning on doing this years TOT 13k. I also would like to squeeze a local half marathon in before the full. One thing I must say about my DH Brian is that he ALWAYS there for me at my races. He always has faith in me that I will be able to finish it (he knows I am determined) both at the race and during training.

So here's hoping the Donald Defiant Dashers will ROCK!!!

 

[Kira G.]

Hello fellow Dashers!! Let the games begin!

I don't know how to post a link, so I'm just pasting my bio from the other thread:

Here is my family in WDW last August - my husband Tom (43), Annika (9), Will (13), Hannah (15 now, 16 in a few weeks - yikes!), Ally (7) & me (43).

We live in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia with our enormous Collie dog and three cats. I work in the school of my 3 younger children as the Director of Admissions. I really love my job - I helped found the school back when Hannah was just 2 years old. I have also just started a home-based travel business, Blue Sky Destinations, which is a wonderful new adventure for me.

My husband and I have been married for 20 years. We met when we were both just 18, and he truly is the love of my life! My kids are all amazing, and bless and challenge me each day.

I am so excited to be starting this new journey of running. I have always gotten away with taking my body for granted, and I am ready to begin to explore challenging myself in this way. I think that more than anything else, I love the idea of finally becoming an athlete. I am also excited that Tom has decided to do this with me. He doesn't Dis (at least not for now), but you will probably all get to know him anyway!

 

[goingthedistance]

Ok, posted my bio on the main thread. The link to the page (not techically savvy enough to link to the bio itself) is http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=22885265#post22885265

Paul

 

[bubba73]

Wow! This is my first team competition on the WISH boards. Actually, my first team competition since High School. I am really looking forward to it. I will now attempt to give a brief bio.

I am about to turn 35, married and have 2 kids (14, 11). I work in retail so my hours are very sporatic. I have been training consistantly for almost 10 years now. I also started a thread here on WISH called "Dieting for Disney". When training, I do everything. Weights, abs, cardio. You name it. I try to make sure that I get a full body workout to maintain a healthy standard. Also, on that note, in the middle of last year, I had my knee scoped which has limited me on certain things but I refuse to let it stop me.

Oh well. That's all that I can think about for now. I just hope that I can help this team in any and every aspect. Let's get out there and do this thing!!!

 

[Optimator]

Hey Triple-D's!

It's great to be part of the team! I'm really looking forward to getting to know everyone.

It's just a shame I don't have more intellectual property 'cause it would surely be protected around here.

Here's a link to my bio (I hope) Optimator Mike's Bio

Vic - I'm sorry to say that tomorrow is a rest day for me. A bad way to kick off the reporting period, I know.

Paul - I never got to say congrats on your great run in the full. Pretty amazing to PR on day 2. It was a real lift for me to see you on the turn around by WWOS.


Happy Training!

 

[Big Vic]

Vic - I'm sorry to say that tomorrow is a rest day for me. A bad way to kick off the reporting period, I know.

Not to worry. I've been home most of the week with a bout of pneumonia. I won't be reporting for a bit, myself.

 

[ironz]

Aww...Vic! Get better soon!! (not for the contest--for you!) I hope you darling wife is taking good care of you!

 

[Hey Mickey]

Oh, Vic, that sucks (for the team and for you). But don't worry, Captain, we'll pick up the slack while you are resting and recuperating, so you just focus on getting better.

 

[Hey Mickey]

It's just a shame I don't have more intellectual property 'cause it would surely be protected around here.

Yeah, those other teams don't stand a chance in heck in a heated trademark battle! Actually, seems like Team 5 may be knowingly and willfully infringing on Paul's user name. We may need to issue a cease and desist letter due to the high likelihood of confusion...

So, Mike, have you ever thought about legally protecting "optimator" for any line of goods or services (but not beer, of course -- thats taken)? Maybe inventing a new line of running gear (in flourescent green) that gives people on your team an edge in competition? What about writing your memoirs, recapping your life as a running god? C'mon, you've got plenty of intellectual property just waiting to happen!