Jalopenomel

[sugarbear]

Jalapeñomel, if we have to put together a motorized car, it's alllllll you, friend.

Just sayin'.

[Jalapeñomel]

I didn't watch it tonight! But I can put together almost anything!

[jssymom14]

Lol but you are women and not good at putting stuff together! Stupid country girls

[sugarbear]

Mar 2, 2014 23:37:16 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I didn't watch it tonight! But I can put together almost anything!

Ok, good. We should start listing our strengths so that we've got time to train, fill in the gaps.

I can swim
drive a stick shift
lift heavy things

ok, that's pretty much it. I'd better get to work.

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 0:13:09 GMT -5 jssymom14 said:

Lol but you are women and not good at putting stuff together! Stupid country girls

That made me so mad.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2014 0:17:07 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Mar 2, 2014 23:37:16 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I didn't watch it tonight! But I can put together almost anything!

Ok, good. We should start listing our strengths so that we've got time to train, fill in the gaps.

I can swim
drive a stick shift
lift heavy things

ok, that's pretty much it. I'd better get to work.

Dude, you can do a billion push ups!! 

I can drive stick shift
speak enough spanish to get by
talk shit
I can sing and dance

Things I cannot do:
read a map
push ups
run a 7 minute mile

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 10:10:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Mar 3, 2014 0:17:07 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Ok, good. We should start listing our strengths so that we've got time to train, fill in the gaps.

I can swim
drive a stick shift
lift heavy things

ok, that's pretty much it. I'd better get to work.

Dude, you can do a billion push ups!! 

I can drive stick shift
speak enough spanish to get by
talk shit
I can sing and dance

Things I cannot do:
read a map
push ups
run a 7 minute mile

Ok. If there's a push up challenge, I'm on it.
I can possibly sprint a 7 minute mile. And then pass out. For a really long time.

But the map thing is a concern. Did you know that I teach World Geography? Yep. Can't read a road map to save my life.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2014 11:28:59 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Mar 3, 2014 10:10:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Dude, you can do a billion push ups!! 

I can drive stick shift
speak enough spanish to get by
talk shit
I can sing and dance

Things I cannot do:
read a map
push ups
run a 7 minute mile

Ok. If there's a push up challenge, I'm on it.
I can possibly sprint a 7 minute mile. And then pass out. For a really long time.

But the map thing is a concern. Did you know that I teach World Geography? Yep. Can't read a road map to save my life.

Ok, that's pretty funny!  I'm working on getting into shape after baby, so hopefully physical challenges won't be too hard.  I'm also stellar at putting together puzzles.

[jssymom14]

Haha sugarbear! I teach World Geography and the English teacher always said we should do AR together. But she is vegetarian and I am not going to be responsible for eating all the gross meats that are inevitable in at least one challenge. But she knows multiple languages and has lived in China and European nations growing up...oh the trade-off to consider.

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 11:41:11 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Mar 3, 2014 11:28:59 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Ok. If there's a push up challenge, I'm on it.
I can possibly sprint a 7 minute mile. And then pass out. For a really long time.

But the map thing is a concern. Did you know that I teach World Geography? Yep. Can't read a road map to save my life.

Ok, that's pretty funny!  I'm working on getting into shape after baby, so hopefully physical challenges won't be too hard.  I'm also stellar at putting together puzzles.

This is also very helpful!

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2014 13:50:41 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Mar 3, 2014 11:41:11 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Ok, that's pretty funny!  I'm working on getting into shape after baby, so hopefully physical challenges won't be too hard.  I'm also stellar at putting together puzzles.

This is also very helpful!

Oh and I am die-hard competitive, so I can be a sore loser.  But I DON'T LOSE. 

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 14:55:44 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Mar 3, 2014 13:50:41 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

This is also very helpful!

Oh and I am die-hard competitive, so I can be a sore loser.  But I DON'T LOSE. 

Me too!
Important question: Would you have gone back for Mark's backpack?

[jssymom14]

If she had my passport and "medicine" I feel like I would have kept moving with the race. What about you?

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2014 14:58:35 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Mar 3, 2014 14:55:44 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Oh and I am die-hard competitive, so I can be a sore loser.  But I DON'T LOSE. 

Me too!
Important question: Would you have gone back for Mark's backpack?

Only if there was a passport in there, otherwise, shit out of luck.

[Nonny]

Can you both swim and paddle a canoe and/or kayak? Sugarbear, you did rowing crew right?  But that's not quite the same skills as the random rafts and heavy carved out wooden boats they seem to end up in.

How are you at lugging 50lb wheels of cheese uphill using rickety wooden backpacks.

Or launching watermelons*? 

*She was actually such a badass about continuing on after this, despite not being able to feel her face.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2014 15:06:37 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Can you both swim and paddle a canoe and/or kayak? Sugarbear, you did rowing crew right?  But that's not quite the same skills as the random rafts and heavy carved out wooden boats they seem to end up in.

How are you at lugging 50lb wheels of cheese uphill using rickety wooden backpacks.

Or launching watermelons*? 

*She was actually such a badass about continuing on after this, despite not being able to feel her face.

I can paddle a canoe, and I love to kayak (although I have only done it in the ocean).  I'm 99% positive that the watermelon would hit me in the face too. 

The cheese wheel thing cracks me up!

[Nonny]

If you can ocean kayak you should be fine in a river or lake.

Chances are pretty good you won't have to do the cheese wheel, it just makes me laugh too. They've already done it twice, and it was hilarious with cheese rolling everywhere both times.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2014 15:12:58 GMT -5 Nonny said:

If you can ocean kayak you should be fine in a river or lake.

Chances are pretty good you won't have to do the cheese wheel, it just makes me laugh too. They've already done it twice, and it was hilarious with cheese rolling everywhere both times.

I think I'd have to come up with a plan for this before I go.  If the cheese wheel is rolling down the hill at a rate of 3 km/hr, and the hill is at a 6% incline, how long will it take Jalapenomel and Sugarbear to figure out that they suck at rolling a wheel of cheese down a hill?

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 15:04:36 GMT -5 jssymom14 said:

If she had my passport and "medicine" I feel like I would have kept moving with the race. What about you?

Absolutely!
I mean, I wouldn't mind some deodorant. I wonder what they have to carry. They sleep outside often-- do you think they have a sleeping bag in their packs?

But then I think, what if I had gone all-out in my preparations for the race and purchased a nice shell and travel pants that were fairly $$. If I recall, Mark's family has had some tough times. Maybe the items in his pack were pretty important to him? He also said that it wasn't even his backpack. I can understand why he wanted to go back, and I'm annoyed that Mallory gave him a hard time. Like, if my partner said we had to go, I would understand that he or she had weighed the consequences-- in this case, possibly $1m, and had still made that choice. I don't think I'd argue.

If it were ME, I think I would just forge ahead. And flirt a lot, to get someone to lend me a coat.

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 15:06:37 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Can you both swim and paddle a canoe and/or kayak? Sugarbear, you did rowing crew right?  But that's not quite the same skills as the random rafts and heavy carved out wooden boats they seem to end up in.

How are you at lugging 50lb wheels of cheese uphill using rickety wooden backpacks.

Or launching watermelons*? 

*She was actually such a badass about continuing on after this, despite not being able to feel her face.

The watermelon incident is one of my all-time favorite scenes. I think I can handle the cheese. I am a pretty tough cookie, so I think I could continue on after the watermelon-in-the-face, too. But I would totally cry. And try to hide it.

I did row, for a long time, quite successfully. And I will cop to being an absolute disaster in a kayak or canoe. Rowing does NOT translate for me.

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 15:15:51 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Mar 3, 2014 15:12:58 GMT -5 Nonny said:

If you can ocean kayak you should be fine in a river or lake.

Chances are pretty good you won't have to do the cheese wheel, it just makes me laugh too. They've already done it twice, and it was hilarious with cheese rolling everywhere both times.

I think I'd have to come up with a plan for this before I go.  If the cheese wheel is rolling down the hill at a rate of 3 km/hr, and the hill is at a 6% incline, how long will it take Jalapenomel and Sugarbear to figure out that they suck at rolling a wheel of cheese down a hill?

OMG, yes. I feel like, if we can get the whole board to weigh in on every possible scenario before we go, we'll be in such good shape. We'll have an answer for everything!

[Nonny]

Mar 3, 2014 15:19:54 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Mar 3, 2014 15:04:36 GMT -5 jssymom14 said:

If she had my passport and "medicine" I feel like I would have kept moving with the race. What about you?

Absolutely!
I mean, I wouldn't mind some deodorant. I wonder what they have to carry. They sleep outside often-- do you think they have a sleeping bag in their packs?

But then I think, what if I had gone all-out in my preparations for the race and purchased a nice shell and travel pants that were fairly $$. If I recall, Mark's family has had some tough times. Maybe the items in his pack were pretty important to him? He also said that it wasn't even his backpack. I can understand why he wanted to go back, and I'm annoyed that Mallory gave him a hard time. Like, if my partner said we had to go, I would understand that he or she had weighed the consequences-- in this case, possibly $1m, and had still made that choice. I don't think I'd argue.

If it were ME, I think I would just forge ahead. And flirt a lot, to get someone to lend me a coat.

I don't know that they have sleeping bags.  I've seen them with those metallic solar type blankets though.

Other random things that I've seen come in handy:

 - small roll of duct tape -- guy used to tape a muffler or something back up under his car so it wasn't dragging.

 - calculator -- lots of teams have used those

 - click counter -- for when you are counting links of chain, fence posts, bins of small Ikea toys

 - headlamps

 - work gloves

 - notebooks and pens (one each, write down everything and both have a copy)

Other skills:

 - bike riding (including tandem)

 - being able to run and function after taking a shot of vodka

 - roller skating

I would also suggest that you each keep a change of clothes of your own in each other's packs so if you are in the Mark's Lost Backpack situation that you aren't entirely SOL. 

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 15:35:02 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Mar 3, 2014 15:19:54 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Absolutely!
I mean, I wouldn't mind some deodorant. I wonder what they have to carry. They sleep outside often-- do you think they have a sleeping bag in their packs?

But then I think, what if I had gone all-out in my preparations for the race and purchased a nice shell and travel pants that were fairly $$. If I recall, Mark's family has had some tough times. Maybe the items in his pack were pretty important to him? He also said that it wasn't even his backpack. I can understand why he wanted to go back, and I'm annoyed that Mallory gave him a hard time. Like, if my partner said we had to go, I would understand that he or she had weighed the consequences-- in this case, possibly $1m, and had still made that choice. I don't think I'd argue.

If it were ME, I think I would just forge ahead. And flirt a lot, to get someone to lend me a coat.

I don't know that they have sleeping bags.  I've seen them with those metallic solar type blankets though.

Other random things that I've seen come in handy:

 - small roll of duct tape -- guy used to tape a muffler or something back up under his car so it wasn't dragging.

 - calculator -- lots of teams have used those

 - click counter -- for when you are counting links of chain, fence posts, bins of small Ikea toys

 - headlamps

 - work gloves

 - notebooks and pens (one each, write down everything and both have a copy)

Other skills:

 - bike riding (including tandem)

 - being able to run and function after taking a shot of vodka

 - roller skating

I would also suggest that you each keep a change of clothes of your own in each other's packs so if you are the Mark's Lost Backpack situation that you are entirely SOL. 

This is brilliant. I think I'll call you Haymitch from now on.

[Nonny]

Mar 3, 2014 15:44:55 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Mar 3, 2014 15:35:02 GMT -5 Nonny said:

I would also suggest that you each keep a change of clothes of your own in each other's packs so if you are the Mark's Lost Backpack situation that you are entirely SOL. 

This is brilliant. I think I'll call you Haymitch from now on.

I figure my chances of getting to run it myself are slim to none, so the least I can do is be overly invested in your success, should you and Mel make it.

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 15:47:24 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Mar 3, 2014 15:44:55 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

This is brilliant. I think I'll call you Haymitch from now on.

I figure my chances of getting to run it myself are slim to none, so the least I can do is be overly invested in your success, should you and Mel make it.

LOL.
You can totally be our coach.

[Jalapeñomel]

Mar 3, 2014 16:01:55 GMT -5 sugarbear said:

Mar 3, 2014 15:47:24 GMT -5 Nonny said:

I figure my chances of getting to run it myself are slim to none, so the least I can do is be overly invested in your success, should you and Mel make it.

LOL.
You can totally be our coach.

Dude, yes.  This is brilliant.  Nonny you will be our Haymitch.  We will be a force to be reckoned with, no doubt.  I can taste you $1M!

[Jalapeñomel]

What we really need to be thinking about right now is someone to produce our audition tape!

[sugarbear]

Mar 3, 2014 16:17:54 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

What we really need to be thinking about right now is someone to produce our audition tape!

I know.
And help us write our script.