St. John's Santa Monica 5000 2007
102107. A few thousand people took part in Sunday's 2nd annual Santa Monica 5000. For the 2nd year running I acted as VIP Director. This year, we hosted about 150 sponsors and Elite Runners, as well as celebrities. See here are some of the early-morning pit crew:
Jeanette, ready to offer Mimosa's to our guests:

Walking around the Expo, I checked in before mayhem hit, with the first shift of pancake makers:

Here I am, flanked by two of our special guests: Josie Maran and Rainbeau Mars.

A view of the EXPO in full-swing:

Back in the VIP tent, our guests pose in front of the LEXUS banner: Yennifer Behrens, Gillian White, Cristina Nardozzi, Rainbeau Mars & Josie Maran.

LATCers in the house! Chris & Kennedy Minton (soon to be first-time parents), Marrielle & I.

Rainbeau & Josie on stage with Emcee, Alex Bell, to present the plaques to our winning runners.

The Santa Monica 5000, 2007 top overall finishers with their plaques:

Emcee, Alex Bell with Michelle Lindner.

Post-Event... Generic Events team, Michelle Lindner, me, Beth Kallok and Marrielle Canales.

Pasadena Triathlon :: Reverse Sprint

The first annual Pasadena Triathlon was greeted by a beautiful, but COLD morning. Jennifer Grandy (JG) and I drove up with many excuses at-hand, trying to decide if we were ready to swim/bike & run (or, in this case, Run/Bike & Swim), in the 50-ish weather.... but, fortunately, it warmed up very quickly and became the perfect day for a tri. Below, Michelle Linder and JG stay warm with hugs before the event.

And, just to skip to the good part... We did participate! And, here we are, all smiles, post-Swim!

Summer Bond made this race her first OFFICIAL Triathlon event EVER! And, she kicked some serious butt! She smoked JG and I... and, almost took Paul too! Here she is, with Brian, just after the race.

Here I am with Alex Bell, who just told us all that he and his wife, Kim, will be moving to Sausalito in a month. Booooo!!! We'll sure miss them around LA....

Mike Gwaltney, Team in Training Coach, brought out a big group of TnTers for this reverse tri... they were all smiles at the finish.

The Hekimians!! Yoshi, Paul, Lucas & Sylvia made it a family outing. Little Lucas will surly be swimming, biking and running ANY DAY now!