Tales
it's one way to get a trophy
may 2015
terren races her third berkeley triathlon on the weekend oma and opa come to visit berkeley. her game was on. mom and dad have never seen her so focused. she raced harder than we've ever seen and smoked everyone in her heat. when they announced the top three trophy winners, we've never seen her so disappointed. it broke mom's heart - so in an effort to provide terren some comfort, mom went to ask where terren placed. weirdly enough, they wouldn't and couldn't give mom a ranking or time and intentionally kept all the information covered and brusquely told her to check the posted times. when the times posted, dad knew terren's listed time was 9.5 minutes and said that was impossible. fortunately opa had taken digital photos with time stamps (see him in the background with the camera next to oma.), which put terren's time around 6.5 minutes -- 2 minutes faster than the first place girl and possibly faster than all the boys (assuming those times were right.). post some emails with the city of berkeley, the berkeley officials admitted that there were timing/stop watch issues in terren's heat and offered terren a trophy based on opa's digital photos. terren was thrilled. thanks so much to opa, oma for their digital forensics! the girls had a fabulous weekend with oma and opa at the triathlon with the tobey family, celebrating nando's birthday, and playing balloons.
