DDW Day 1…

Greetings from beautiful San Diego, CA (and I do mean beautiful, the weather has been fantastic these last two days). For those not aware, I'm in SD working for Get Your Guts In Gear in our booth at Digestive Disease Week ("(T)he world's largest gathering of physicians and researchers in the field of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery"). Yep, I'm a "booth babe". Actually what I am doing is spinning with my bike on a trainer (lent to us by Eric at Zumwalt's here in SD). Having the bike in the booth is a good conversation starter, and gets people that might not otherwise stop into the booth which is great. It's not the best training as I'm basically staying in zone 1 while spinning, but saddle time is saddle time, so it's hard to complain too much.

I'll try to get some pictures up tomorrow, but the totals from Day 1 are – 3hrs 2mins / 40.04 miles / 84rpm / 130bpm

The evening was capped by dinner with our Ride Director (Jay), and Seattle (Karen) and Texas (Diana) Logistics coordinators at a little Mexi-Cali place called Gringo's in Pacific Beach. Diana is leaving us tomorrow afternoon, so we followed dinner with quick stops at Mission Beach and then Sunset Cliffs just so she could get some local flavor.

The L&T joins me down here in 3 days, I can't wait!! More tomorrow…

Comments

[suitcaseofcourage]

Sounds like a great time! DEF need pics of you on the trainer. And thanks for the "booth babe" link. Very, um, educational...

[Jim Smith II]

Yeah, sorry about that. It's a phrase that is pretty common in technology circles (where companies used to hire attractive models to work in their booths thinking [correctly in most cases] that lonesome geeks would come in just to talk to a live girl), but I realized it wasn't well known so I thought I'd add the Wiki...