Kevin "Pretty Boy" Friddle, aka "The Chef". If you visit the H**ray for B**bies team camp site, you'll see three morose, mud-spattered guys sitting around in rumpled clothing glumly eating beans out of a can and swilling warm Gatorade (that would be Dave, Dan, and Woodson) and then there's this fourth guy. He's just finished a lap at 1 a.m. but here he is, all spiffed up in freshly pressed casual clothes, whipping up an artichoke souffle' and some haricots verts, washing it down with a crisp, refreshing '02 pinot grigio while the espresso-maker heats up.

That would be Kevin Friddle.

A former runway model and a once-promising young actor (he turned down the role of Mr. Blonde in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film Resevoir Dogs) in 1993 Kevin left the fashion world behind to enroll in the famous Escoffier School of haute cuisine in Paris. A traumatic, and as-yet unexplained experience involving an angry lobster and a batch of pate' de campagne brought this phase of his career to an abrupt halt. Broke, homeless, depressed, and crippled by a persistently swollen toe (reportedly broken by that angry lobster) "The Chef" in desperation stole a knobby-tired bicycle early one cold and gray Chicago mornin' and in that one spontaneous lawless act discovered his true calling.

Step aside people, "Pretty Boy" Friddle is headin' out for another lap!