Personal Summary

Always striving to push my limits and see how good my best is.

• TRAINING LOG



• Athletic Summary
• Upcoming Events


• Adventure Racing
• October 22-24, USARA Nationals, Pilot Point TX
• 2009 Fall Sprint; Story Indiana
• 2009 Indianapolis Adventure Race, (2nd Overall)
• 2009 Thunder Rolls 24 Hr AR, (2nd Overall)
• 2009 PA Urban Sprint, (1st Overall)
• 2009 Midget AR, (1st division)
• 2009 Mission 18 Hr AR, (1st Overall)
• 2009 Planet Adventure Sprint, (1st Coed, 2nd Overall)
• 2009 LBL Challenge 24Hr, (5th Coed, 5th Overall)
• 2008 PA Sprint Redux
• 2008 Indianapolis Adventure Race, (1st Coed, 4th Overall)
• 2008 PA Urban Sprint (2nd Coed, 2nd Overall)
• 2008 Infiterra Adventure Rage 30 hr (7th)
• 2008 Odyssey Wild, Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (4th overall)
• 2007 PA Urban Sprint; Indianapolis, IN (2nd coed, 2nd overall)
• 2007 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (1st premier)
• 2007 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Tell City, IN (5th co-ed,7th overall)
• 2007 Sunflower 24 hr; Lawrence, KS (13th overall)
• 2006 Adventure Rage 30Hr; Cadillac, MI (8th overall)
• 2006 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 15-Hr; (1st Male, 4th Overall)
• 2006 PA Sprint; Brown County, IN (2nd co-ed, 3rd overall)
• 2006 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Leavenworth, IN (17th overall)
• 2005 Indianapolis Adventure Race (2nd Division, 3rd Overall)
• 2005 PA Sprint; Valley Branch, IN (2nd Division, 5th Overall)
• 2004 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis (10th division)
• 2004 PA Sprint; Clark State Forest, IN (1st Division, 2nd Overall)
• 2004 PA 24 Hr Challenge; Owen-Outman Counties, IN (15th Overall)
• 2003 Midwest Fury; French Lick, IN (1st overall)
• 2003 Wild Scallion; Chicago (10th Division)
• 2003 Indianapolis Adventure Race; Long Course (10th Overall)
• 2003 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis
• 2003 Benchmark Appalachian; Portsmouth, OH (2nd Division, 18th Overall)


• Orienteering & Rogaines
• 2009 ICO Orienteering Meet, Story, IN
• 2009 Conquer the Crossroads Rogaine, (1st, 6hr course)
• 2006 ICO 12 Hour Rogaine - Brownstown, IN (4th overall)
• 2005 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (1st Overall)
• 2004 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (3rd Division, 7th overall)
• 2004 Indianapolis Metrogaine (3 hour)


• Running
• 2009 TNT 5k; Horizon Camp, 8th
• 2009 Dances with Dirt; Gnawbone, IN
• 2007 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
• 2003 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
• 2003 River to River Stage Run (Illinois)
• 2002 Chicago Marathon
• 1998-2005 Indianapolis mini marathon


• Cycling
• 2009 Three State Three Mountain Century; Chattanooga, TN
• 2009 Brown County State Park Road Race


• Other
• Downhill skiing since 1990
• Climbing and mountaineering since 1992

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Susan's fight

Susan Nelson, wife of "Fat Cyclist" Elden Neslon (Fatty) passed away last night after a long and courageous fight against breast cancer.

I started reading Elden's blog about a year and a half ago. Mostly because it was funny and most of the humor was in the context of something that I enjoyed, cycling. He's written on everything from his successful efffort in getting Bob Roll's head shaved to the chemical and physical properties of incredibly stale energy food.

However, I quickly learned there was a lot more to his life than riding his bikes and writing

funny stuff. His wife was dying of cancer.

He didn't keep it to himself nor did he use it as a focal point for pity from others (or himself) through the very public forum that is a blog. He told their story and together they started to do what they could to fight back at the disease that was slowly killing her and countless others. "Win Susan" and "Fight like Susan" became a rallying cry for those that chose to spend their time and money fighting cancer by raising awareness, money or both.

Over the past year Elden got very involved with the Livestrong Foundation and through his efforts and those of the 500 members of "Team Fatty" over $500,000 has been raised to help with cancer research. Having a loved one taken by a disease like cancer is a very personal experience but their willingness to share their story with the world inspired many others to join in the fight. And because of this there is an extra half million dollars to fight cancer so far. (Who knows how much will be raised by the end of this year alone thanks to their effforts?)

I don't know about you, but I think that's pretty

damned impressive. So take a minute to check

out his blog, maybe pass on your condolences and consider donating.

Heck, if you do it now you might even win this bike--->

Contests like the one that is going on currently, where this Orbea bike is the prize (thanks to the generosity of others) are just one of the ways that Fatty has come up with to help entice people to join the fight.

posted by Garrison at 8:47 AM