divbr //divdiva onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n7a3IKFYbqU/StXXyiz9XAI/AAAAAAAAC2A/y9xew9B-joQ/s1600-h/IMG_0014.JPG”img src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n7a3IKFYbqU/StXXyiz9XAI/AAAAAAAAC2A/y9xew9B-joQ/s400/IMG_0014.JPG” border=”0″ alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392453392184204290″ style=”display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; ” //aspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;”div class=”im” style=”color: rgb(80, 0, 80); “span style=”font-size:100%;”Well right now as I am sitting on a jet under the name Jacked Up. Mr Up to the uninformed. /spanbr //divspan style=”font-size:100%;”While I am heading at 600mph to my destiny at Soldier Hollow, my Family, Friends, USBiathlon Representatives, Coaches, Adviser’s and Coworkers are sitting in my living room drinking Dark Roasted Starbucks by the gallon expectantly waiting my return from what they think is my Saturday morning obligatory hammer session. /spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”What brings a group like that together?/span/spandivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;”br /span style=”font-size:100%;”An intervention./span/span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;”br /span style=”font-size:100%;”For yours truly, Jackedup old man./span/span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;”span style=”font-size:100%;”/spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”Luckily an unnamed source leaked that the support team that I have learned to count , whom has enabled me to continue my addiction to the sustained dopaminergic release I get from training has decided it is time for Jackedup to own up to the facts./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”This Olympic “Craziness”, need to be confronted. Why now? It’s a mystery to me. Just because My Wife and Kids have not seen me for the last three months is no need to panic./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”Tipped off to this attempt to derail the Jackedup train, I decided to stage my own preemptive strike./spanbr /div class=”im” style=”color: rgb(80, 0, 80); “span style=”font-size:100%;”Friday was spent at the Courthouse changing my identity to my alter Ego – Jacked Up. Getting plane tickets updating USADA etc all the time pretending I was innocently at work./spanbr //divspan style=”font-size:100%;”As I prepared to continue my delusions, my “intervention group” was getting their iron clad case together to make me face the facts./spanbr /div class=”im” style=”color: rgb(80, 0, 80); “span style=”font-size:100%;”They think that this triaining should stop. They cite many reasons. /spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”#1 That I am not contender for the US Olympic Biathlon Team but a middle aged man undergoing a mid life crisis. Unnamed Representatives of the USBA have convinced them of this./spanbr //divspan style=”font-size:100%;”#2 My new “Tiger Claw” technique is insane and proves that I have gone over the edge./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”#3 I have a family ( huh? when did that happen) that needs my full attention, and financial earnings./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”#4 This is 2009 not 1992, the sport has passed me by. I need to be working on my golf and boccie games, not ramping up some 210 beats per minute roller ski workout on a treadmill./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”#5 Even if I made the Olympic team -Who cares anyway!!/spanbr /br /span style=”font-size:100%;”My answer:/spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”Jacked Up cares./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”And that is good enough for me./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”Nice try intervention group, by the time you get this, I will be on the start line in Utah./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”Destiny awaits in Soldier Hollow, I will continue to fight the good fight./spanbr /span style=”font-size:100%;”Like the Phoenix, I will rise again…./spanbr //span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-family:arial, sans-serif;”span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”border-collapse: collapse; font-size: medium;”br //span/span/div/divdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6647112093689702615-2115108508631366349?l=www.jackedupoldman.com’ alt=” //div
