Pat McLaughlin
Alamo, CA
Cat 2
Year of Birth: : 4-14-65
Marital Status: Formerly Married
Known Children: Britt (19), Drew (17), Quinn (15)
Occupation: Sales of outsourced call center services (nobody ever asks me to present at "career day")
Race Disciplines: Road Races & Crit's, the flatter the better

  Cycling Highlights:

Race Highlights: E3: Dunnigan Hills 2nd, Cyclesports Crit 3rd place with John W and Reed - we finished 1, 2, 3. Lafayette Crit, 2nd place

Riding Machines: Willier Le Roi, Cannondale CAAD 8, $129 frame/all carbon no-name hard tail Mt. Bike

Favorite Race: Lafayette Crit, Modesto Crit & RR, Barani RR, Dunnigan RR, Timpani Crit

Favorite Training Rides: HOP ride, Sunol/Calaveras and back, Thanksgiving day world championships, descending Diablo with 15 team mates on a warm summer night

Favorite Beverage: Milk, coffee, vodka

Favorite Pre-Race Meal: Coffee, Oatmeal, Protein Powerbar, Gu, (followed by 4 trips to bathroom)

Favorite Flick: Chinatown, The Player, Rushmore

Favorite Book: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Five-tunes Playlist (artist/song): In the Evening/Led Zep, Gimmie Shelter/Stones, War Pig/Cake, Caravan/Van Morrison, I Will Posses Your Heart/Death Cab, Anything my daughter sings

Hero/Heroes: Ernest Shackelton, Tenzing Norgay, John Wooldridge (see Suisun & Livermore race reports)

Talents, Hobbies, Tidbits: Eating while riding (see Al Nielson), juggling (not riding), name that tune, pulling downhill, avoiding early rides, working amongst chaos

Blog or website, if any: I rely on John M to access the interweb

If you could ask a dead person one question, who would the person be and what would be the question?: I would ask myself what killed me and attempt to avoid it.

Mary Ann or Ginger? Kate Beckinsale as Mary Ann

If you were a character in a movie, who would you be? Jason Bourne

What, if anything, do you have left in life to accomplish? Almost everything, including (a) writing a screenplay that is made into a movie (b) watching each of my kids attain happiness as adults (c) travel more (d) learn how to order sushi without having to look at the pictures

If you were a fruit, what would you be and why? Blackberry