get to know: Becky Ashton (IronWoman)

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  • Where do you live?: Sunnyvale
  • Home Team: Fiancé, Ryan (he just doesn’t know it yet and now is NOT the time to let him know I signed up for Canada!) and two cats Arkose and Genesis
  • Hometown: Chester Springs, PA
  • Motivation: The cure and having a goal to get in shape for.
  • Honoree(s): My dad, Tom Ashton
  • Favorite tri gadget(s): My bike and the little floaty thing that you put between your legs so you don’t use your legs when you swim [ed. note: that would be a pull buoy]
  • Last three books read: A Gift from the Sea, Ultramarathon Man, and The Week (it is a magazine, but it is really the most recent literature I have read.)
  • Last three movies seen: Talladega Nights, The Kingdom, The Departed
  • What person do you look up to the most and why? My brother because we can usually talk out almost anything and everything.
  • Favorite local cheap-eats restaurant: Premier Pizza .. not that cheap, but damn good
  • Desert Island Five: The book Ishmael or The Story of B, leatherman, water proof matches, a fleece blanket, and Coke. I am thinking survival here.
  • What did you want to be when you grew up? An Acrobat in the circus
  • Middle name meme:
    Have you seen my new condo?
    Easily Excitable; sometimes a little too much and sometimes a little grouchy.
    National Parks are good places to visit; I have worked in Hawaii Volcanoes and Crater Lake National Parks.
    Stretching; my favorite part of exercising.
    Zebras; I want to go to Africa one day.
    Eucalyptus; I LOVE the smell of those trees and the outdoors. Wanna go for a hike?
    Yosemite; Ryan proposed on the top of Yosemite Falls as we sat down for lunch.

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