Yes...I am now a TV celebrity. I had my first TV interview this past week and am now on a first name basis with these guys:
I didn't think about how it was probably weird that before I even officially met them I was calling them by name, "Hi Mary...Hi Ron...Hi Bill." But...whatever...they are Utah Celebrities in my opinion.
To check out my TV moment on video go here and you might have to click on "Healthy Halloween Treats from IHC":
http://connect2utah.com/news/noon-videoBelieve me I am not really proud of this video but since it is my only claim to fame I will share it. You know...it is so hard listening to yourself or watching yourself on video. I was SOO nervous and the video take was live. I met Ron Bird like 20 seconds before we went live and he was asking me questions I didn't think he would ask me. Nick and I role-played what I would say OVER and OVER again and nothing came out how we practiced. When it was over it felt like the interview was only 30 seconds long and it was all a blur but it turned out to be like 4 minutes long. Kind of crazy.
And...yes I am also an IHC icon just in case you haven't seen the website...
www.intermountainhealthcare.org under "Billing and Financial Assistance" at the bottom (of ALL places)
And this has to be THE WORST picture of me...EVER. I get a text/facebook message/e-mail from a different person at least once a week notifying me about my picture on the website. It wouldn't be so bad if it was a better picture of me. So...why am I blogging about it? I don't know. Well maybe just to tell people that I KNOW it is a bad picture of me and I didn't voluntarily put it on the website. The only reason it is up there is because they needed to take a picture of somebody diverse and lucky me... I am 4'11" ...and that makes me a diverse person in Utah I guess. :)
But..I will take what I can get when it comes to being famous.
The Dirty Dash...this is how we decided to spend our Saturday in September. It was wild and there were so many people with funny costumes running in the mud. It was a 10K in Midway doing all of these obstacles and getting way dirty. Keep in mind this wasn't just any mud...but the worst smelling mud ever.
If you can't tell what is on our faces...they are pig noses. Get it? Pigs run in the mud. I thought we were pretty creative but lots of people wore pig noses. Some of the other funny costumes I saw were people running in their wedding dress and tuxedo, a viking, grown men in leotards, and people in their business suits. By the way...I trained for this race and it was still SO hard. Nick didn't even train as much as me but had no problem doing all of the hard obstacles. He was just jumping over haybells no problem, getting his leg stuck in the mud all the way up to his hip and still moving fast. I didn't get it. Why do guys have so much more endurance. I felt like my shoes were heavy pieces of lead because they had so much mud on them. Here is what the race looked like.
And if you are wondering what the filthy finish looked like in the end....here ya go. Everybody kept telling Nick to do a cannonball into the pool of mud and he did. Then he proceeded to the finish line doing backstrokes in the mud. It was pretty hilarious. I loved doing this with Nick and it was a way fun experience. There were a couple of times I couldn't even run because I was laughing so hard at people falling down and just eating it in the mud. Until next year...
