Guess Who Was In Atlanta For The National Championship?

Me!  That's right! I had a business trip in Atlanta and I arrived Monday afternoon and I got to see the game... from the privacy of my room in the Hilton! Yeah seriously!! I mean really, who plans a business trip the night of the National Championship! Plus the late start of 9 PM is not good when you have to sit in meetings all day the following day! But, as you may or may not know, I am a retail investigator that goes after the bad guys that steal from our company to make a living, and this business trip was all about how to catch, apprehend and interview the bad guys, so it wasn't too bad!

***On a side note, my family had a 6 pack of IBC rootbeer riding on whoever had the best bracket. Going into the championship game, I was leading by one point, with no teams left. My bride and oldest son both had Louisville in the final game (my picks were Duke and Indiana) and I needed Michigan to win for me to win. As you know Louisville won and my son picked 157 total points scored to win the bracket challenge, with my bride taking 2nd place, I got 3rd and my middle boy got 4th!***

I have gotten back to training after battling my cough for a little over 2 weeks! I have been so worried about not coming back too soon so I can get over this cough, but I started getting worried about losing my fitness after 2 weeks of not doing a thing! So I started getting torn, do I get back to my schedule? Or what? I have decided that the best set for me is to ease back into it. Thankfully next week would have been a scheduled recovery week, so that means less miles than a normal week, so I think everything is going to work out great. Thursday I did hit a 25 mile (1:38) bike ride on the trainer and Friday I did a 1600 yard swim, and felt fine. Saturday calls for a 9 mile run and Sunday is a 30 mile ride or 2 hours. I really do not think starting back with a 9 mile run is a great idea, so I am going to shoot for 6 and see how that goes. I will let you know how that goes!

Shout It, Shout It, Shout It Loud!!

As the title of this post suggests, this post is not about triathlon related material at. I am doing the first ever Daily Training's Concert Review!

This week I had to travel to Atlanta for some business meetings and it just happened to work out that Kiss and Motley Crue were in concert. Being a huge 80's hair band fan, I wanted to go. I mostly wanted to see Motley Crue, but I also thought I would not have many more chances to KISS in concert in full makeup, so it was a win-win.

As I said, I was more excited to Motley than KISS, so I was really excited when the band came marching out through the audience to the stage. They opened up with the Saints of L.A. and you could tell a lot of people did not know this song. They did all my favorite songs. Primal Scream, Girl, Just Go Away, Dr Feelgood, Home Sweet Home, and Wildside among others. I thought the band sounded great. Nikki Six was  killing the bass guitar and even the crypt keeper Mick Mars sounds great on guitar. Vince Neil on the other hand, well let's say Vince needs to do some cardio.While Vince still has the pipes to hit all the scream, he really seemed winded by the second song. It got so bad that he was hitting about every third word, I think I was hitting more words than Vince!

The one guy that stole the show for me was Tommy Lee. He is just freaking awesome on the drums. He came out with his painted like the Crow, and he rocked the drum. No wonder he is so skinny that way he plays. He also rocked the piano fro Home Sweet Home. His drum solo, which spun in a circle was freaking awesome. He even got a lucky fan to take a ride while he played.

All in all, I was a little disappointed in Motley because of Vince, everyone else rocked it.

Next was KISS. I really did not know what to expect, but I loved it! They opened with Detroit Rock City and they started rocking and did not stop until they had to leave. They also played a lot of the more well known KISS favorites likes, Dr Love, Shout It Out Loud, Lick it Up and Black Diamond. The crowd ate it up. Paul Stanley, who sounded like Edith Bunker to me, was a great front man. He tried to get the crowd involved and keep them going.The Star-Child even zip-lined to the middle of the crowd for a song.

I have to mention the Demon, Gene Simmons.He was everything I expected him to be on stage. From the long wagging tongue, to the blood to the flying bass solo, he was definitely on that got your attention. I even noticed the wedding ring he was wearing! While he did not speak to the crowd much, he spoke without words. His bass solo followed by the song God of Thunder was sung after he flew up about 30 feet to a perch high above the crowd. The crowd loved it.


All in all, I think I enjoyed the KISS concert more than Motley! And, just when you thought it was over, KISS was out for an encore with the all time, best known KISS song, yelling that all they want to do "Is Rock N Roll All Night and Party Everyday"! They shot tons of confetti out of these massive cannons and almost cause a white out!

It was a great time, and it was good to see four guys with guitars and drums make music with the aid of electronics!  This was real rock n roll and I am afraid bands like this are going to be history soon, so go see a real rock band whenever you get a chance!