Bad News~Good News

We have some bad news... Megan was running with Steve the other night and slipped on some loose dirt and sprained her ankle. Her doctor advised her that she may be able to run in 4 weeks but that means it will be near impossible for her to train for this next crucial month. She originally was going to work it out and walk to train, but after a few days of painful realization, she feels as if the Ragnar is just not going to happen this year. I know this is really hard for her because she has been training just as hard as anybody else if not harder. She is one of our runners who had to start from the beginning and she has come such a long way. I know if the Ragnar was tomorrow and if she were not injured, she would rock it! I'm so proud of you Megan you are still part of the team!

So now we need someone to step in and fill a spot. So a good friend of ours that many of you know has agreed to step in and help us out. Clifton Smith! I don't know yet how we are going to work things out because we may need to move peoples legs around. But hopefully everyone can accommodate. We are happy to have Clifton on the team! He is practically family to Donald and I, and I think he can come to terms with the FMX way of life... which is we do what we love and we love doing it!

London's Run

Come get some more practice in before Ragnar! I just signed up for london's run 10k. They also have a half marathon for the over achiever's. Londonsrun.org. The price goes up in a couple of days. It will be Saturday, January 30th around 8am.

-Megan

A few changes...

I'm sure you guys got the email about the coarse finish line change. It's a good thing. They'll have a great place set up for our families to hang out at Tempe Market Place and it should be a good place to celebrate. But it did cause a few of the runners legs to change, some more than others. I changed some people around that are in the 2nd van. But go look at the website and see if the changes are ok. I think they should be for most of you.

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

Here's something I thought was exciting! I submitted each of our pace times into the Ragnar calculator and it accounts for hills and gives anticipated times for each runner. If we can each be consistent with our paces then it should be pretty accurate.

I requested to begin at 08:00. I haven't heard back yet. Our approx finish time would be around 5:30pm Saturday.

R1 Donna
R2 Jaba
R3 Donald
R4 Shannon
R5 James
R6 Bill
R7 Lois
R8 Kristin
R9 Kevin
R10 Clifton
R11 Steve
R12 Scott

I will have to email the info to you because Blogger is so STUPID!!!!

Pace Time Time!

I have to submit these pace times by TOMORROW!!!
So I think I'm going to have to take my best guess.
This is what I have so far. Please correct me if I am wrong because I need to be accurate to get the correct start time for our team.

Shannon- 12:30 (sorry guys)
Steve- 10:30
James- 11:30
Donald- 8:30
Donna- 10:30
Jaba- 11:30
Katie- 11:00
Kevin- 10:30
Kristin- 7:30
Megan- 11:30
Lois- 11:15
Scott- 8:00

That gives us an average of about 10:30. We are where we need to be. So lets focus now on finishing together as a team. Keep training! It's going to be tough!