Heather's Yapcrap

MISSION Adventure Race 18 Hour 5/11/13 Brownstown, IN Team Adventure Capitalists/BDAR Midwest Racers: Don Bart, Heather Kluch, Eric Olsen Pre Race It took us about 5 hours to get down to Brownstown. We left a little later than we originally planned but we still made it in time for dinner that was provided by the race director. Delicious lasagna and brownies were in my face within seconds! Brownies are my weakness but I limited myself to two. That was really tough for me! Brian, the race director, started the pre race meeting at 7:30pm. We learned that we were not getting any of our maps beforehand so we had no idea what kind of madness we were about to endure. It definitely felt weird going back to the cabin without having to stay up until past midnight plotting checkpoints and planning our route. I thought to myself wow, we might actually get some decent sleep! Well with certain loud explosive noises coming from one of my teammate's cheeks (not the ones on...

American Ninja Warrior Miami, FL 5/4/13 Heather Kluch I had originally applied for a Bear Grylls reality show last year but didn't make the final cut. A few months later, I received a call from NBC asking if I wanted to be a part of the American Ninja Warrior. I said sure, but they told me I still needed to fill out the application and send in a video. I had plans for someone to help me with the video, which fell through, so I was in a time crunch and only had about a half hour to come up with something before the deadline. I put something together at the last minute, and I think it sucks so much that I still haven't watched it again. So you can imagine my shock when I got the call saying I made the cut to be on the show for the taping in Baltimore! It took me a while to finally make my decision and sadly I had to turn them down. I just had too much going on that weekend and I just couldn't make it happen with such a short notice. The casting producer ask...

Boonecrusher 12 Hour AR 4/27/13 Boone, IA Team: Where's Tom's Thumb Racers: Don Bar, Heather Kluch, Eric Olsen, Jeff Everson First off I'd like to explain our team name for this one since "Where's Tom's Thumb" is a new one for all of us. We were originally supposed to race with Tom Everson instead of Don Bart. About a year ago, Tom accidentally decided to chop part of his thumb off while camping in Iowa. Of course we have never let him live that down, so we make fun of him every chance we can get....hence the name "Where's Tom's Thumb" which I have to give credit to Eric Olsen for coming up with that awesome name. About a week or so before the race, Tom decided to hurt himself again since cutting off his thumb just wasn't enough. Apparently something popped in his ankle during one of his volleyball games which I have to mention his team name... "Everybody Hates Tom"....you can see a theme here can't ...