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AA, Brick, Ironi, Big Foot, Anoldo Barreto. Forrest, cause I’m god damn gifted!

It’s funny what a young man recollects:

High School: too shy with girls to even talk with them, much less have a girlfriend. First crush: would have to be Leslie, cause she could run, run, run just like Gump…..

College: Was too busy running, playing soccer and studying for serious GF; plus Chuck Pickering, my sophmore roommate, kept stealing all the good chicks from me.

Then there were always folks coming and going:

Atlanta: Betsy from Toledo; not quite like my “Jenny”, but three years worth of exhilaration; ultimately leaving me for someone in special forces (ex navy seal). Wasn’t going to mess with him….lol…….

Augusta: Sweet Alice MD………great girl, but long hours. Ultimately parted ways, she for another MD, me for a balerina…..however, she gave me the best gift in the wide world, cause she sure got me straightened out, didn’t she, boys?

Jacksonville, Florida: Beth the Balerina who was very flexible…but me and Christian Scientism were not good mix….

Augusta again: Many women have tried since, but too old, set in my ways, and too many bags to handle.

Mom and Dad, going strong, live in Ponte Vedra, Fl and Augusta, Ga.Two Sisters: Marquin and Frances, with 7 nieces and nephews, live in Savannah and Tampa, respectively.My fur people:

Kona-my Portuguese Water Dog but now wants to change to Icelandic Glacier Hound (He is a Barrett dog, not an Obama dog!!!), 16 months old

Kitty- my 13 yo adopted cat, abandoned as a older kitten in at my retreat.

Just passed to the Rainbow Bridge: Ellie, 12 yo Chessie and her liter mate and brother Bear. Sweetest Chessies I have ever met. Bear and I had a mental connection.

Arnold Broyles Barrett,Jr.

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Arnold Broyles Barrett, Jr.2312 Overton Road, Augusta, Georgia 30904

Cell: 706-830-6912 Email: NikeBarrett@gmail.com

My most famous fur person: Nike dog –black lab bitten by rattler on his 12th birthday while mtn biking; my ultimate friend.

Nike Dog and I relocated by to my home town of Augusta from Jacksonville, Florida in the early 90’s. Not wanting to live in the hotty totty area of Summerville, the area in which I was born, we chose to live out in the sticks of Edgefield County. Lucky for us, the sticks were only 1.5 miles from I-20, 6.5 miles from downtown Augusta, and right smack dab in the middle of some of the best road biking routes and mountain biking trails in the CSRA.

We originally purchased the small red brick house on a two acre tract. A few years later I purchased a 25.5 acre tract, which includes part of the three acre pond from one of the three sons of Mrs. Atkinson, my deceased neighbor. The adjacent 24.5 acre tract which includes the other part of the pond is owned by the Widow of one of the other sons. She presently resides in Idaho and we have a mutual agreement of right of ingress/egress and recreation on our two tracts.

Nike Dog and I enjoyed the woods, deer, wild turkey and pond for a couple of years, however, on his eleventh birthday mountain bike ride; he met his untimely death at the fangs of a rattler on a trail in Edgefield County. Needless to say, the place was never quite the same without him.

Nike Dog was infamous in the kayaking and mountain bike circles. His vet Dr. Gayle stated that he had never seen a dog at 10 years old run on the trails with such speed, stamina and determination. On the Ocoee River in Tennessee, spectators were amazed at his ability to run the class IV rapids while laying on the front of my Kayak. However, his biggest claim to infamy is that he is the only dog to ever escape the old Walton Way Animal Clinic and make it three miles back to my home in safety. In order to escape he had to unlock a latched chain link cage, climb up a 5 ft concrete wall and then climb over an 8 ft chain length fence on top of the wall....Can’t imagine.

Since his death, I have had several new fur friends, some whom I have had to lay to rest due to various causes in my pet cemetery located near the camellia bushes in my front yard. Erin, bless his heart, succumbed to a snake bite last fall. Bear and Ellie, brother and sister Chessies, both recently passed at 12 years of age.

However, at the moment I have Kona and an abandoned 11 year old cat named Kitty. Within the last year, we all packed our bags and relocated to a house nearer my aging parents and friends. We live right on Rae’s Creek and Lake Olmstead in a remodeled 1950’s house, with a great outdoor backyard. However, we still own my retreat and come back to the pond frequently (house is rented out).

Other fur friends:

Errin- my red golden retriever, bitten on his elbow by venomous creature; god bless himTaylor-Errin’s older cousin…..RIPLogan and Brooks, among others.My Hawk-Cooper

Guess you can tell that I think dogs are easier to put up with than women……always glad to see you, friendly and don’t ask for too much. LOL.

SEC Reporting Manager Morris Communications Company, LLC, Augusta, Georgia

Prior Employers: HYPERLINK “http://www.merryland.com/” Merry Land Properties, Merry Land & Investment Company, First Union National Bank, Florida National Bank, Baird & Company CPA’s, Bankers Trust Company of New York, Wells Fargo Bank

Am I crazy or just plain stupid?

Degrees and Accreditations: CPA, MBA, BA of Economics and Business Administration

Universities: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tn. 1978, BA Economics and Business Administration

Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1980, MBA, night student, Finance

Other: Episcopal Day School, William Robinson, Langford and the Asheville School.

Stupid is as stupid does…

Ironman World Championships 2002, 2003, and 2006

Other races: Ironman Florida, Canada, Utah, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Alcatraz Triathlon, etc. Georgia State sprint triathlon champion-Masters division.Trekked up to top of Mt. Killimanjaro-Rongai Route, in Tanzania, Africa

I became personally involved in most of the critical events that take place in American History from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. This included the Vietnam War, the Watergate Scandal, the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War protest movement. What a crock of shit!

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A somewhat slow (not smart) person, who happens to be incredibly kind, decent, and over the course of his life, quite lucky.

At Asheville School, I don’t know if we each have a destiny or if were just floating around accidental-like, on a breeze. My favorite memory was our discharge papers telling you your service is up.

Ok, it was harder than college for me; it prepared me as to how to study.

For real? It was the special bonds made with special people; classmates, schoolmates, professors and citizens of Asheville. The late night adult beverages shared by all in the dorms. Turkey Mitchell’s math class and coaching inexpertise. Watching the Jetsons on Sunday am; with a hangover. Having Harris break the Ben Lippen Soccer dudes leg after the guy broke my nose. Seeing Byrd pray to the porcelain trash can. Bucko hanging me out of third floor Anderson by feet, playing Jesus Christ Superstar’s 39 lashes. (Of course he lashed me with his belt 30 times prior!) Plus, I never would of gotten to short sheet, Harris and Emily’s bed on their honeymoon night in the Houston Hotel ..

Running, running and running on the x-country and track team… I figured I might as well just keep on going.… Where was I running off to?

Playing soccer with the likes of Sola Mahoney, Garlock, Potts, Beckhum, Gudger, Chaliewell, Baker, etc…..And my development of my love for the mountains of NC. And the great escape from my overbearing parents at home.

Some funny newspaper and tv articles done on my triathlon ineptitudes:

1) He walked into the local bike shop looking haggard in his three-piece suit and tie. That was 16 years ago, and Arnold Barrett’s life was about to change. Barrett was ready to buy a new bike. Not just any model. He wanted one of those pricey road bikes, just like the rigs serious road racers ride.

“When he came in, in his office suit - he’s an accountant - and he had his tie untied, and he looked like the old regular accountant worm that was an out-of-shape slouch,” said Brett Ardrey, the owner of Outspokin’ Bike Shop. “When he walked in, he didn’t look fit at all and was looking at buying this road bike. I was surprised. I guess I judged him by his cover. That was an error.”

No one could have imagined what Barrett would accomplish. Now 46, the Augusta native is at the top of his game, an accomplished triathlete with a growing resume. In October, Barrett made his debut in the sport’s premier event, the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. This weekend, he’s off to British Columbia

to compete in the Subaru Ironman Canada.

“I was always an athlete, but I’ve kind of taken it to a whole different level now,” Barrett said. “To me, it’s a competition against yourself. It’s something to actually challenge you to stay in shape, to see how far you can push yourself.” The triathlon is considered one of the ultimate tests of fitness and athleticism. In the Ironman series, the event consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run. There are other divisions and formats with shorter distances.

For Barrett, his foray into triathlon began about three years ago, when arthritis forced him to cut back on his running. Barrett made cycling his sport of choice. Riding a

bike was easier on his aching joints, and he soon took up swimming and weight training to satisfy his fitness goals. In turn, the biking and swimming helped Barrett get himself into the best shape of his life. It also helped his arthritis and enabled him to begin running long distances again.

Before long, the “Ironman” in Barrett was born. “Three years ago, I told this guy over at Health Central that I wanted to do the (Ironman) in Hawaii, and I don’t think he believed me,” Barrett said. “I was able to get in. That was my first triathlon.” Imagine a golfer making his competitive debut at the U.S. Open. Or a tennis player playing his first match at Wimbledon. Barrett did the equivalent last fall in

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pounds the pavement on the open road.

Some say the local CPA has absolutely no business walking at all in the wake of a grueling 112-mile bike ride, 26-mile run and 2.4-mile swim.

But, don’t you see? Dude is absolutely relentless. Dude is Ironman.

You probably remember a few weeks back when we profiled Barrett, a man who did the unthinkable last year in Kona, Hawaii.

Barrett made his competitive debut at the Ironman World Championship - the premier event of multisport - where he finished 338th out of more than 1,600 competitors from across the globe.

Golfers don’t launch their career at The Masters Tournament. And triathletes simply don’t debut at Kona.

Barrett did, and he did it again last week at the Suburu Ironman Canada amid raging wildfires ravaging the forests in and around Penticton, British Columbia.

He finished 104th out of 1,965 starters, including 55 professional triathletes.

In his age division (45-49), Barrett finished third in a field of 175. That earned him a trip back to this year’s Ironman World Championships in Kona in October.

Canada was only his second triathlon, and some of his buddies at the local bike shop used to call him an out-of-shape schlep.

Schlep this. Dude is for real.

What’s most impressive about Barrett is that he already earned a spot in the Ironman nationals through a lottery system. All along, he said he wouldn’t go unless he earned his own spot there.

He delivered, in spite of the massive headache and stomach pains he woke up with the morning of the race.

And in the immortal words of the legendary Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, Arnold Barrett is Ironman.

“It gives me more gratification than last year since I got in the (Ironman worlds) by the lottery or lady luck,” Barrett said. “This year, I went for it, and I actually earned it.”

3) Paul Kannady used to see triathlons and question who would want to subject themselves to that torture.

Adventure racing was Paul Butler’s thing until he decided - at age 60 - that propelling and mountain biking while going sleepless for several days was a little too dangerous. He switched to the triathlon because it still subjected his body to a severe endurance test, but was completed in one day during mostly daylight hours.

“You ask yourself constantly during them, ‘Why am I doing this?’” he said. “And when you finish, you are absolutely elated.”Butler, 63, Kannady, 36, and Arnold Barrett, 48, are local athletes who hope to experience that feeling of elation Saturday evening when they finish the Ironman Florida in Panama City.

Ironman competitions feature a 2.4-mile swim, 112 miles on the bike and a 26.2-mile run - the same distance as a marathon.

A year ago, Kannady completed the Ironman Wisconsin - his first - in 14 hours, 23 minutes. “It was actually harder than I expected, to be honest,” he said. “At least the bike was.”This time, he said he’d like to finish in less than 12 hours, though he is recovering from a bone spur in his right foot. In order

Hawaii. He finished 338th out of more than 1,600 competitors at the world championship.

Most Ironman competitors must qualify by winning or placing high in their age group at other Ironman events held throughout the year. Barrett got in through a lottery system. The Ironman Triathlon World Championship committee selects 200 athletes - 150 from the United States and 50 from other nations - to join the field. “Attempting to do the Ironman, that’s most people’s ultimate goal in the sport, not their first goal,” Ardrey said. “So it’s pretty amazing to think that Arnold’s first triathlon was Ironman.” Ardrey had a feeling Barrett was special on that day 16 years ago when he joined them. When Barrett bought his bike, he asked Ardrey whether he could join his group on one of its regular rides - a 25- to 30-mile trip from Augusta to Beech Island to Pine Log Road near Aiken and back.

An experienced rider, Ardrey advised Barrett to take it slow, to start out riding a few miles a day, and gradually work his way up to longer distances. “I told him I wanted to give it a try,” Barrett said. Ardrey and the group were in for a surprise. Barrett not only kept up with them, but he also finished the 25-mile ride in the middle of the pack. “For two hours, we tried to lose him, but we couldn’t get rid of him,” Ardrey said. “He was more of an athlete than he appeared to be. It was pretty amazing.”

Barrett had a few more surprises for the group. “One day, we went to play ultimate Frisbee and Arnold was a star at that,” Ardrey said. “Then we went to play soccer, and we found out he had played some semipro soccer. Then we went to play basketball one day, and he could slam dunk a basketball. “He was more than the regular Joe Shmoe,” he added. “He’s a gifted athlete. It’s just a gift he has.”

Once again, Barrett has made it into this year’s Ironman World Championship thanks to the lottery. This time, he won’t go to Hawaii unless he earns it. He can do it with a high enough finish in Canada this weekend. “I would love to qualify to go back to Kona, “Barrett said. “It was just an incredible experience. Riding the bike through the lava fields at the base of a volcano. Just being in Hawaii, in the ocean, swimming in that water. There’s nothing else like it.”

2) Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Can he walk at all, or if he moves will he fall?” - Ozzy Osbourne

Some say Arnold Barrett lost his mind when he decided to enter the unforgiving world of competitive triathlon at age 45 last year.

Some say the Augusta native has been blinded by his own desire to test the limits of his own body every time he mounts a road bike, hits the water or

to accomplish that goal, Kannady sought out Barrett’s help on the bike. Kannady calls him “Arnold the Brick Barrett,” because “he feels no pain.”

Barrett said some of the people they ride with call him worse things, but that Kannady eventually adjusted to his vigorous training methods.

“When he first started he was pretty good, but he got a lot better,” Barrett said.

Barrett has achieved what Kannady and Butler hope to one day - qualifying for the Ironman Hawaii World Championships. Each Ironman competition offers limited spots in all the age groups to the Hawaii race. Barrett said he would probably have to break the 10-hour mark in order to qualify for his third trip to Hawaii, but estimates he’ll be about 30 minutes behind pace on the run because he, too, is recovering from a foot injury.

4) North Augusta man gets triathlon honor-North Augusta’s Arnold Barrett Jr. has been awarded All-American status by USA Triathlon. Barrett ranked in the top 10 percent - 83rd out of 1,212 - in the USAT National Rankins for the 45-49 year old group. He finished third out of 82 qualifiers in his age group in the Ironman World Championships held in Kona, Hawaii, in October. May 4, 2009

5) Augusta Sports Council’s Amateur Athlete Award-2005

Arnold Barrett works nine to five like many people. But when he leaves his job for the day, his work is only half-way finished. “I’ll probably run anywhere between 40-60 miles a week,” says triathlete Arnold Barrett. “I’ll bike probably...anywhere from 250-300 miles a week. I’ll also swim at Aquatics center probably…16-20 thousand yards a week.”

Now Barrett doesn’t pound the pavement just for fun. He’s training for the Ironman world championships in Hawaii. The idea started with a simple conversation.

“I was speaking with a friend of mine, Glen,” says Barrett. “We used to watch the Ironman on T.V. I told him I was going to do this.” “We said we always wanted to do something like the Ironman, just more or less talking,” says Barrett’s friend Glenn Hogan. “He actually took it seriously.”

The 48-year-old has already competed in Hawaii two other times. But there have been moments in training where Barrett has second guessed what he’s doing.

“There’s times where I get off work and go for a 15-20 mile run and it was hard…

out in the rain, out in the cold,” says Barrett. “He’s got a phenomenal work ethic,” says Hogan. “When he puts his mind to something, he just does it.”

Still, Swimming, Biking, and running for hours and hours can take its toll on a body.“Sometimes it feels like it’s never going to end on the run,” says Barrett.

“The first few times in Hawaii, you don’t know what to do. You don’t want to stop.”

Wherever you go in Augusta, you’re bound to see Arnold Barrett preparing for the Ironman. And he’s hoping all that work will pay off come October. “This year, I’d like to finish in the top 10 in my age group,” says Barrett. “I’d like to finish in the top 5. But I’m gonna really have to work at it.” “The competition doesn’t even drop off until 65 or 70,” says fellow triathlete Paul Kannady. “in his age group, in the 45-50 age group…very, very competitive.”

As for Barrett’s future as a triathlete, don’t expect him to slow down anytime soon.

“I’d like to do it as long as I can,” says Barrett. “I don’t think I want to go back to Hawaii every year just because of the expense. I’ll probably try to go back when I’m 55.”