I lost to a Real Winner!

Hi folks on the eve of the announcements of this Year's 8 Finalists for the $25,000 Year end prize I can not help but reflect back to my own 15 minutes of fame!

In December of 2007 I won $1,000 for my Fitness Transformation. You see back then each age group 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, and 50+ each had a 1k winner. One for each sex and then there was a best in class each month so two of those winners one man and one woman each won an additional 9k for total of $10,000!

Wow that still sounds like a lot of money! Here is the announcement for that month:



I was and still am Very honored to be nominated to be a Monthly winner of that 30 yr age group! There was a huge competition that year especially in the 30 yr old group! It was also very special to me to win this particular month with my buddy Lee Solon Ratterman that I had filmed an infomercial for 10 Min Trainer with! But, yes still some small part of me was a tad disappointed that I was not the 10K winner.

When I saw the man that won I was fine with settling for second place! David Keenan had already lost at that point 162 lbs, 27% Body fat and 22 inches from his waste! There was no way my results could compete with that! So I was not so sad to loose to such an accomplished story!

Well time went on and I never thought that much about it. Mentally there is always a difference between the 10 k winners and the 1 k winners so at some of the events that I would go to. The 10k folks would get a bit more attention than I did. No problem really but I kind of wanted to shout out that I lost to a guy who dropped 160 lbs!

2 years later I am on an airplane. One of my very last trips home before I was able to leave my job to become a full time Team Beach Body Coach (Yes Coaching is for Real!) and who do I see in my People magazine! None other than our ole friend Dave Keenan! I nearly jumped outta of my plane seat and I scared the nice woman sitting next to me! Sorry Nice lady. I could not really explain the entire story to her, but there was Dave who had defeated me for the 10k right in my lap!

Here is the article from People:


http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20332412_20333526_20720279,00.html#20720279

Then like a week later I see him appear on the Today show!

"Half Their Size"

Today I notice that Beach Body has his image right up there on the front page of their website right next to last years $250,000 winner!

http://www.beachbody.com/jump.do?itemType=HOME_PAGE

Again not a big surprise for me because I knew how great this guy's story was. Now it seems the rest of the world is just catching with me!

Congrats David! U deserve all the accolades! U did all the Heavy Lifting! (pun intended)

-Jason