I must admit, I'm beginning to grow fond of the nicknames that I'm seeing arise from some of our competitors.

I'm currently living in a country where absolutely everyone has a nickname. Most Thai first names can be up to four syllables long, so a nickname simplifies matters a great deal. There are a variety of reasons why a Thai person has their nickname. Some of are given based on how someone has looked as an infant, like lek (small), ouan (fat). There are nicknames based on animal sounds like oud (the sound pigs make) or miew (the sound of a cat). Then you get the really silly ones based off of what the current fad is, or what the parent really enjoys. I've met two siblings named Aston, and Benz, so you can assume the mother or father is really into cars. Some get even more silly like when the ASEAN Games were held in Thailand so some kid was unfortunately given the nickname of ASEAN Games. Then there's the totally random ones like Mafia or God.

I'm very pleased with the nicknames of two of the more prominent members of the Global Fast Fit community. That would be Sutinee "Nee" Rasp, and Simon Njuguna Mucheru.

While Sutinee already has a shortened version of her first name (Nee), she has been affectionately, and correctly dubbed, "The Mountain Goat" by her husband Greg. It's incredibly fitting, considering how well she tackles the steep elevations of the ultratrails that would typically cause the untimely end of the uninitiated, unfit, and unqualified.

I'm only just learning of Simon's nickname, "The Pope". Hearing it immediately makes you wonder where he got it from, but judging by Simon's recent GFF Lite score for the #KenyavsUganda Fitness Faceoff, you can see that His Holiness has the authority to win this entire series on his own.