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297 days ago
I need to get back into a rhythm of blogging more often like I use to. I am not sure what the distraction is? Anyways, the Spring and Summer Seasons of Team in Training are in motion and Royal Oak, MI has an awesome team. The Spring Team started out very well, took on the weekly increasing miles, snow, and subzero temperatures. They continue to train hard and impress me more and more every day. Some of them are already talking about their next race they want to do after they complete their events in the spring. I swear I have not been serving them the Kool Aid but it seems like their addiction to running is quickly evolving. It is great to see the running community grow with runners from Team in Training. The Summer Team had their first official group training last Saturday and about 90% of them showed up ready to brave the elements. The turnout was very impressive and I hope that it continues on. The more the merrier and it always help to have a good ...
326 days ago
Has it really been almost 6 months since I have blogged? Yikes! I guess my story telling engine that was fueling this blog site was turned off for some strange reason. Where do I begin? Well a lot has happened since June of 2008 so of course I will not go on and on and tell everything that has happened since then. I will give some highlights to get things moving again in hopes that I will update my blog on at least a weekly basis. The end of June of 2008 marked the end of my coaching season for Team in Training as runners that I coached had completed their events. It was great to reconnect with the ones that I was not able to be at their actual event and hear how their day had gone. Hearing stories about fellow runner’s events is always fun and interesting at the same time. July and August consisted of taking a break from coaching and concentrating on my own training for races that I would participate in later in the year. For those of you ...
520 days ago
I was going to write a post about my experience crewing and pacing at the Mohican 100 but as I started to write I began to think that it was not truly my race. I did for the first time in my life see the sun rise, set and then rise again without a good sleep, but I was simply along for the ride. All of us in the crew and people that paced runners were there with the goal of making sure our friends safely finished the race and had fun. Once Jeff and Ken crossed that finish line we had all succeeded and all became winners. The runners did receive fancy belt buckles, they give our belt buckles instead of medals at 100 mile races, but awards were not necessary for the crew and pacers. The satisfaction of knowing your friends finished was the only award that was needed. A few things that I learned that weekend; running can be a team experience when crews and pacers are involved, Ohio does have mountains, and I never want to run a 100 mile race. If I ever do run a 100 mile race you ...
530 days ago
I know that I do not post as much as I use to but since I was tagged by Motown Runner Girl, I will accept and create a post on my blog. Copy questions to your blog and answer them. Tag five people. Let them know on their blogs. Names of the people I tagged are at the bottom of this post. 1. How would you describe your running 10 years ago? 10 years ago I was not a runner. I played sports like soccer, football, lacrosse and softball. I thought I was in shape and an athlete back then. Now that I have become a runner I truly feel like I am in much better shape than I was 10 years ago. 2. What is your best and worst run/race experience? Best = It is hard to pick one. As of now my best race experience would be the Martian Marathon on April 6 th 2008. I got my best marathon time of 3:58 and I was not even really trying to get a certain time. I learned that day to always have fun at a race, run hard, ...
557 days ago
First off I have to say thanks to my fellow RUT Members for not telling how bad those hills and picker bushes really are out there in Gnaw Bone Indiana, second…why didn’t you warn me! It had rained all week so the first two miles was all mud, the type that likes to try to take your shoes off, and since you do that first leg twice more fun mud at the end also. The ski hill in the beginning was a monster to climb at the start of an event, it quikcly got you warmed up, and then on the way down on the way back I am so happy that I did not tumble down it. Actually if I did tumble down it I probably would not of felt that much because most of my body was numb at that time. A group of about 20 of us missed one of the turns and ended up going about 4 extra miles overall so that really added to our final time. After that at each turn where the ribbon was not obvious I took a second to look for it. Lesson learned here is to never follow the person in front of you and always keep looking ...
