This summer BC Athlete Voice sent out an email inviting high performance BC athletes to write good luck notes to the provincial athletes headed to the Canada Summer Games. In return, they would send us a free t-shirt. I, of course, ignored the request for HIGH PERFORMANCE athletes to respond, and sent in my well wishes anyways, hoping they would mistake me for, well, someone important, and send me the t-shirt.

So, a little while back, I got a parcel in the mail and opened it to find, lo-and-behold, two ICEBREAKER shirts - one tank and one long sleeve top.

Now, as a winter spandex sport athlete, I am always on the prowl for good long johns. I had been itching to try Icebreaker for a while ... except that they are wool ... (pun intended ... get it? Itching ... wool ... GET IT?!) Now, I rarely wear wool anything, because I find it super irritating, so I didn't really want to drop a pretty penny on a pair of long johns that ended up being itchy. So I was totally stoked to get a free Icebreaker tee (and almost as stoked that BC Athlete Voice seems to think I qualify as high performamce, and sent me one to begin with.)

OK. So now that you are well-versed in my long and torrid history with sheep-based materials, here's the real story.

Turns out I LOVE my icebreaker stuff. I wear the long sleeve top under my training suits, and the tank to work out, as well as under my race suit. So last week, when I was at the Athlete Advance, I ran into the guy from BC Athlete Voice, who mistook me for a high performance athlete and sent me the shirts, and I told him how hooked I was on them.

A week later, I got an email from him, asking if I wanted to model some Icebreaker gear on the Shaw Cable show "Urban Rush" in exchange for some free gear.

You had me at free ...

My only stipulation was that they didn't force me to wear pink. Only because I didn't want to get barf all over it.