“…Some say they sold the yay and know they couldn’t get work on Labor day
It ain’t that black and white, it has an area that’s shaded gray
I’m west side anyway, even if I left the game and stayed away…”

“So keep on gettin’ ‘ya paper (Ah)
And keep on climbin’ (Ah)
Look in the mirror
And keep on shinin’ (shinin’)
‘Til the game ends
‘Til the clock stop
We gon’ post up on the top spot…”

oh like totally wow! sometime this weekend we hit the 10,000 visitor mark on our workouts database! OMG we are like soooo totally like popular. It all started when I was bored this past Spring during a conference call and decided to start going through my old workout books and putting them into an easy to use database…i keep promising that during my next god-awful conference call I will write the code for commenting the workouts and/or ranking them but lately most of my vendors have been …

big props to Michael T for running in and doing well at the Harrisburg, Pennsyltucky marathon this weekend with a 3:09:38. Must have been the underwater kicking.

Big ups to Pattie D for an amazing job at Ironman Hawaii today!!!
Her final times are:
Swim - 1:17:37 (Division Place - 27th)
Bike - 6:26:49 (Division Place - 21st)
Run - 4:28:27 (Division Place - 24th)
Overall - 12:22:32
Final Place Overall - 1195 of 1736
Final Place in her Division - 24th
Great job Pattie!!! West Side is proud of you!

to Welling who finally made it to the frigging wall…TWICE!!! You made that wall your bitch!

WOOHOO!!!! Who’s NEXT?

Straight from the great frozen north, we are proud to announce our new partnership with Swimcapz.com. Swimcapz.com makes custom swim caps in both latex and silicone. West Side will be sporting our new caps this fall and winter. The SwimCapz.com website is so easy to use and their prices are excellent in comparison to the other major custom cap providers out there. Check them out!!!
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Congrats to first time firm-manster Matt who finished 12th in his group and 148th overall with a 35:03 in his swim and a 5:49.37 for his final time.
Congrats also to Michelle who placed 3rd in her age group and 108th overall with a 33:09 in her swim and a 6:15.03 for her final.
Awesome job you two. What a way to put an exclamation mark on the season.

Big ups to the TRIPLE D threat…
Dan Boone - dropping time like its acid at a Dead show…6:12 off of last year’s time…did you have a lobster hanging on to your nuts? damn!
Della Jennings - 3rd overall and first among women in the aquabike (must have been that 100 sprint/stationary bike brick last week)
Pattie D - 1st in her age group by over 9 minutes…no mercy!
way to go guys!!
West Side!!

Happy 35th Coach Nate!!!

to Michelle for a tremendous performance at the Plymouth Rock Iron Distance last weekend. She came out of the water 2nd in her wave and got 2nd for her age group in the swim with a time of 1:05.04. Way to go Michelle!