The Shore to Shore 1/2 marathon

I ran in a 1/2 marathon yesterday in Lake Chelan. It was soo much fun and it feels good to have accomplished it. If you're like me running for 2 1/2 hours doesn't really sound all that fun, so grabbing a friend (or a couple of them) worked for me! These girls and I have trained together since May. We always have great conversations and a lot of fun. On this run we came up with sooo many mataphors that are true in running and also true in life. There were people of all shapes, sizes, and ages on the course. Mom, you can do it, because tons of 70 year old men were running the full marathon!! Some were barely moving their feet, but they were in it for 26! So I guess now what's next????

Running Schedule

OK - finally I have the forever awaited running schedule for you guys! Sorry it took me so long!! I also found a way to post a link to the document here so everyone can get it print it and start running with it! :)

GOOD LUCK!!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pmnSyzSmLcXv2oEdLy4hgNQ

Remember, if you need to start out slower, thats fine too, just start!

Also, you don't have to be speedy, keep it slow so that you can finish it! :)

Love you,

Coleen

Welcome new Team Members

Scott, Dixie, and James.
Scott is Mine and Donald's bother in law. He has already run 2 Ragnar relays! He's a good runner and we are so happy to have him!
Dixie and James are running with us and they don't even know it. :) J/K. I talked to Dixie today and even though she is 9months over pregnant, she still was willing to talk to me about running. What a woman! They didn't exactly commit but... they'll do it ;)

Shannon
Donald
Susan
Lois
Coleen
Todd
Jaba
Rob
Megan
Sally
Jay
Scott
Dixie
James

14 runners!

OUR NEXT GOAL REMINDER:
Find a 10k (or 5k at least) by Thanksgiving! And run your personal best. Don't forget to take pictures! We want to see them.

Starting our Training Plan

Jay and I are "The Biggest Loser" junkies so we are staring our training and weight loss plan today with the season premier. I know this sounds very cheesy but we find it very motivating. We will be weighing in evey Tuesday. I also started looking for a 5K race in October, I'll let you know when we find one. Also Coleen will you send me that running schedule. We are so exicited about this!!!! ahhhh what did we get ourselves into?

OUR 1ST Goal! Thanksgiving 10K!

Yeah! Lets get training! We are going to run a 10k on Thanksgiving morning at 9am! What a way to work up an appetite for food :) 10k is about 6.2 miles so it's a lot to train for if you're not running yet. But you have 10 weeks to get in gear and you can do that! And then when November 27th comes around if you are not there yet, you can always Run/Walk the 10k you don't have to run the whole time. The point is that we do our best!

The Race Location: Red Mountain Park

Fee: 18$

Date: November 27th Thanksgiving Day @ 9:00am

http://www.raceplaceevents.com/event.php?event=401002

I will sign everyone up that wants to run if you just let me know. Or you can do it on your own. It would be really cool to go together obviously. And Christi, there is a 2 and 1 mile run that your kids or any one who wants to can do with us!

-Shannon-

NEW MEMBERS!

WELCOME SALLY AND JAY!

Our new runners are going to come down from Colorado. They wanted a kick in the pants to get moving and this is it! I'm so excited!

So now we have:

Shannon
Donald
Susan
Lois
Coleen
Todd
Jaba
Rob
Megan
Sally
Jay

Committed!
And more that haven't commited yet but are going run with us :)

Lets make sure we talk to each other about work outs and get going NOW! We can't afford to wait til tomorrow. If you wait til tomorrow it will sneak up on you and it will be 2010 Feb.

"You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over. " - Paul H. Dunn

Sign up for the 5k...

Ok - I am really excited to be a part of the team! This will be a fun adventure. My recommendation for all you guys together in AZ...Since the race is a long ways out...to get the training started and stay focused...find a 5k right now and sign up for it. Then you'll have more motivation to get started. I started running in the end of April and did a 10k in the beginning of June. At the time it was a push but I finished it. So find a local 5 or 10k and sign up! You don't have to go for time, just finish it. This is so fun! :)

Email from The Coleen

(This is an email I just got from Coleen she's the wind beneath our wings)


Shannon

Ok check out these pages on the ragnar site for the specifics of the AZ run. It gives all the breakdowns for the runners and then the entire course map.


http://www.ragnarrelay.com/delsol/runnerchart.php http://www.ragnarrelay.com/delsol/coursemaps


I am SO excited that everyone wants to do it! It is so fun and so fulfilling! A lot of it is mental. Before I ran the ragnar, I Never thought that I could run a 1/2 marathon, I serioulsy didn't think I could ever run that far. It feels so empowering to do something that you thought was not attainable. So, I will email you the training schedule that I did. If you don't use it thats fine too. Its just a resource for you and you can get others fired up to! :)

Tell Suzi that Runner 8 has 3 easy legs of 4, 3, and 3 miles. She should go for it! :)

Go Ragnar Team Daly 2010!


Coleen

WELCOME FMX RAGNAR RELAY TEAM MEMBERS!

This is so exciting!

First off I wanted to tell every one a little bit about how everything is gonna go down. The basics are these:

RAGNAR RELAY

You need 12 people of course. Each team member runs three legs, ranging between 3 and 8 miles. The race is physically demanding, but legs vary in difficulty, and we can choose which legs we run. I'm not gonna lie. If you are thinking you are gonna be the one to get the "easy" leg, you're kidding your self, I looked at them, they are all hard. But we can train! And WE CAN DO IT! If you want the easiest leg then that can definitely be arranged. The race is 24 hours and is run from Wickenburg to Mesa(181.7miles).

The race we're training for is in 2010, February(I think) so we have plenty of time. But the one thing I don't want is for people to loose their focus and get unmotivated because that's so far away. So I have put myself in a leadership position here and I am going to keep you going. Even if I have to annoy the crap out of you. Sorry. But NO that wont happen cuz this is gonna be FUN!

So the purpose of this blog is so that we can come here and post pictures, ideas, recent events that we've run at... stuff like that so that we can have a little runners support group. Cuz we're all over the place. Like for instance I know Coleen is running a Half Marathon soon and so is James and I'd like to see pictures and know how they did.