Comments on: Bay Area Barbecue Championship and Quick Food Gal Giveaway

By: foodgal

foodgal — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:08 +0000

Contest is now closed. Come back tomorrow to see who won.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:51:26 +0000

Never had I felt so invigorated rather than when I watched my Dad and brother run their first half marathon together. My grandmother, mom and I had ran the 10k earlier in the morning and were now done and watching my Dad & Brother finish the half marathon as they were at about the 8 mile mark. We were planning to cool down from our own race and stand idly by to cheer them on. As they round the corner and finally are in our direct line of view and earshot we immediately hear my brother “singing” my Dad on! We quickly realized that my Dad was struggling and he had 5 miles to go.

The next thing I know my grandmother had grabbed my hand and pulled me into the race with my brother and Dad. “If we can finish this one, so can you”, she told my Dad. For the next 5 miles we all sang along to various Beatle’s songs and songs that my Dad loves while running a half-marathon! Before this race I had never even ran more than 4 miles before so the entire time I was thinking how am I doing this? And singing while doing it?

However we carried on laughing hysterically all the while keeping moving and my Dad seemed to pick up his spirits. It was an out of body experience because my legs were moving but I almost didn’t feel like they were as we were all just laughing, singing and certainly not concentrating on running.

In the end we all finished the race and my Dad ended up finishing with no sweat. We certainly didn’t get very great times in terms of a race but we had such an awesome time! Who would have thought I would be running a half marathon that day? We also may have drove everyone else in the race nuts but it was a family experience like no other! And I finished my first half-marathon. By far one of the most memorable events with my family as well as my most athletic memory!

It sounds quite silly but it was indeed a sight to see!

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:43:39 +0000

This requires elasticity in the term “sporting event”: Many years ago at a high school on the San Francisco Peninsula, an annual event was taking place–Senior Bow Day. On that day of horrors, any freshman unlucky enough to be caught by a senior at school was honor-bound to do the will of the upperclassman. Getting caught didn’t top most frosh To Do Lists.
On this particular Senior Bow Day, one very small but quick freshman prepared himself to get to his last class before lunch, Social Studies when he spotted one of the biggest men on campus, a real sports hero who lettered in football, baseball and put shot in track on the front stairs waiting to hook up with one of his jock buddies for an off-campus lunch.
Waiting for his chance, poised to go like a sprinter at the blocks, the skinny freshman was immobile, holding his breath until the senior stepped off the front stairs fully turning to look for his pal–then the underclassman took off like a scared rabbit.
You know where this is going–yeah, the senior’s genuine athleticism enabled him to see and snag the frantic freshman before he raced by. He lifted him by his collar then turned him upside down, suspending him by his jeans. before heading to a nearby deli—he turned the freshman upside down suspending him by his jeans and gently shook the 90-lb freshman until forty-three cents rattled to the stairs; the senior righted the freshman and said “Gimme.” The frosh picked up the change and handed it to the senior looking for approval to leave, got it and bolted.
The senior, whose sun-bleached hair was crew-cut, wearing his Block SM, dated (and later married) the head cheer leader at San Mateo High School—his name: Kris Kristofferson.
Guess who the skinny freshman was? Yup. Tis a true tale–about one kid’s thought of a sporting event was to sprint past a BMOC.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:40:37 +0000

Oooh wouldn’t it be fab to attend a Barbecue fest? But sadly it is too far for me. And a sporting event experience? Wow…. that’s one I would have to think about. Most sporting events I tend to watch are sitting in front of my tv! And a dragon race? I am duly impressed!

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:51:33 +0000

I attended one of the World Series games a few years back when the Giants were playing the Angels. We were sitting about three rows behind Bud Selig. Pete Rose took the field during the pre-game ceremonies and the entire crowd starting chanting “Hall of Fame”. Selig looked annoyed. And then the guy next to me started chucking peanuts at Selig’s head. It was pretty amusing. It was also a great series because my favorite player JT Snow got to be a hero by saving Dusty Baker’s toddler when he ran out to the plate and almost got run down by players. Simply awesome. That’s what baseball is all about.