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Too Much Coffee & Aristocratic Dog Names...

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 03:00

(Photo -Joanna and Mederic Hall. The photo is slightly distorted and so is the content of this post. We may have embellished it a teensy weensy bit.)

Going Off Course - Rochester triathlete Joanna Hall admits to having OCD tendencies, which is a psychological deal having to do with stuff like obsessions and compulsions and disorders. No, she doesn't wash her hands 150 times a day, nor is she afraid to step on sidewalk cracks even though doing so is never a good idea, especially if you love your mother. Only a real jerk would want to break his mother's back by stepping on a sidewalk crack. Sure, Ma may be a real drag sometimes...

We digress.

Joanna doesn't suffer from an extreme form of OCD. Her obsessions and compulsions and disorders have to do with benign stuff like drinking way too much coffee, improperly detasseled corn, and giving her Dog Show dogs excessively aristocratic names like, and we're not making this up, "Jordan Duke of Windtree."

Okay, maybe the naming thing is an example of extreme OCD....

More stuff about Joanna Hall: She is both totally cool and totally hot. She's an amazingly cool person, impossible to dislike. And she is also super pretty, a real looker. Her husband Mederic is insanely handsome and together they are probably the best looking tri couple in the entire Midwest. Certainly in the Top 3.

The Halls are moving to the Iowa City area soon. Their plethora of Minnesota friends have only one message for them: DON'T GO!

But if they must, they wish them well and hope that they race often on the north side of the Gopher/Hawkeye Line.

BACKGROUND:

Name?

Joanna Hall- my friends and family call me Jo or JoJo

Age?

USAT age 30

Where you live now?

Rochester, MN (soon to be Coralville, IA)

Where were you born?

Maquoketa, IA, at the hands of my grandpa, Dr. Paul Brown. Raised in Rock Falls, IL

Education? Where? Degrees?

Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science at The University of Iowa

Doctorate in Physical Therapy at University of Illinois at Chicago

Occupation?

Physical Therapist

Former Occupations?

Corn detasseling extraordinaire, waitress, rehabilitation aide, in high school I worked at McDonald