073: MAC PROM

What is the MAC PROM?

A short answer is that it is the awards banquet for the series winners of the MAC series.

That, however, would be an incomplete answer. It truly is a gathering of the tribe. People who love cross and love competing against each other gather together one last time to celebrate the season past, try to figure out what people look like without sunglasses, lycra and helmets, and party it down. Truth be told the awards are such a small and minor part of the night.

I will admit, I was a little lubricated this night. Monkey, Tom Mc, and I were grateful to have a junior racer that could drive us all home safely.

quick impressions:

Fergie received a well deserved Life Time Achievement award for his contributions to cross. How much he may have impacted the cross scene here, may never truly be measured. The roar of the crowd when LVG was called up as the series champion was unreal. Supersweet new team championship mugs, great promoters meeting... Yes, I did throw my wife under the bus at the meeting, but what I said was true, it totally sounded different in my head... Mike Hebe has great vision, and the series is getting stronger totally going in the right direction. Got lots of good feedback on the Tauntaun, which is cool. We have just a great community of people that I am really proud to be a part of.

Anthony has some rad pictures here. The rest are my blurry memories:

My apologies for any extra obnoxiousness, or "I love you mans" I may have launched on anyone.

Ladies and gentleman, Your MAC Series Promoters:

Bad Kat and Bad Andy are, well really, really bad.
Danielle, Kelly and Hailey kept things rolling. Hailey drew the winners from the raffle.
teammate and Rockburn/Schooley Mill promoter Matt B. Great guy.
Okay, I'm just a little lubricated in this shot.

Kim and one hot monkey:
Lindsey and my new teammates Anne Rock and Jimmy Mauer!
More of the family Cline. How can you go wrong here?
Big Time Glenn Turner..
Really two of my favorite people in the world, Lindsey and my teammate Diane the diesel.
Crazy Human Zoomers!
C3 Athletes Serving Athletes Chicks.
the next generation of MAC leaders? Fast kids today for sure.
I heart Tom Mckay. Tom with his date Liz.
Heidi and Melanie. Happy faces everywhere!
The Dr. Warner team...
Nicki who has challenged me to mullet contest for 2010, with her wife Maris.
Remember on the Cosby show when Mr. and Mrs. Cos had a "smooth" off contest, and Mrs. Cos had a broken leg? Breyla-la would have won that contest easily, here with Kim Dubeck.
Melanie and Sven Nystrom, all smiles...
My friend and team director Auer Pants, along with Life Time Achievement Award winner and friend Greg Ferguson, but you can call him "Fergie".
hot chick whose name I forget, Wes, Regan, Hebe and Cara all having a great time.
My hero Dennis Smith:
Auer and Melanie:
And the "I love you mans" are just getting started:
Jake and Alysssa sad at the news that Diane and I aren't having our winter party this year.
They are of course welcome to crash at our place anytime...
The world's greatest designated driver ever. (thanks Jeffy)
The Benders. Zach is the MAC U19 Elite Junior Champion (he's on the right)
the Morgans, Eric saved my ass a number of times this season, and is great to work with
on the MAC series.
Bad Andy about to tell me that he loves me.
LVG and Gavin share some stories
Tom McKay one of Diane and my favorite house guests this fall. He's gonna fly in 2010.
Rob and Kristina Collins, Benny the Jeweler your 2009 Master's 3 Champion.

That guy in the background isn't the unibomber, but the founder and visionary behind MAC Cross, and much of how things in east coast cross are run now. The guy gets it. His name is Dr. Andrew
The other Mark V and Anne Rock...
C3 and friends moved the party down to Le Bus for some more shenanigans.


Tom admiring Kim's sweet boots.
Smiles abound on a great night...

Bad Andy is about to give me the finger. Go watch him race on rollers in Lancaster next week...can't hardly wait for next season...

respect
fatmarc