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Becky Ashton

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.