4th of July

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4th of July

Posted on 04 July 2009 by Mike Behnken

Just Another Day in Bangkok

It took until around 8pm local time to realize that it was the 4th of July. Of course Thai people have no history on the 4th so you wouldn’t expect anything to be different right? Well, what reminded me of the 4th of July was none other than Nathan’s annual hot dog eating contest!

Close Call

I was doing cardio at California WOW and I looked up and there they were, Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut going at it, cramming hot dogs and buns down their throat. I thought it was live but I guess it was last year’s contest but that’s besides the point.

I had just ate a bunch of fruit a few hours before writing the last blog post and I pounded a Gatorade during my weight training workout. Anyone who consumes Gatorade regularly knows that it’s not the best thing to drink fast while working out.

The commercial version of Gatorade has a lot more sugar than the stuff which is research proven. So I had that Gatorade burp problem. Needless to say (see picture) some parts of the contest almost had me projectile vomit a Gatorade & tropical fruit smoothie on the girl on the elliptical in front of me.

It was only the 2nd time in my entire life I gagged from something I watched on TV. The other was on this show called Guinness which had world record attempts. It was a guy trying to eat the most worms in a minute or something. He stuffed what seemed to be 100 worms in his mouth and just inhaled them. Yikes!

California WOW Television

This is on a side note but who the hell produces the TV channels at California WOW? The gym is like 24 hour fitness with super-extreme marketing. I will blog about it fully later but the TVs all have a split screen. One side of the screen has rotating California WOW ads which are beyond cheesy and the other half has completely random things from runway fashion shows to soccer to hot dog eating contests.

More about California WOW Fitness coming Soon…