2 posts tagged “cold”
Alas I fear winter is here. Todays workout (which sucked) was about 31-32 degrees and of course turned into rain (sleet) Lilo is recovered...like I said she loves the cold. I took her for 4 the other night and she handled it well. I never take her over 5.
Trying to think summer, I'm working on the details for my race next June. Last year was the second year and we had a good growth in numbers. This has given me the chance to add some new "Cool" things for 2008. Here's the back ground first. A couple years back I had the idea to have a relay race that didn't require you to have to be drug across 200 miles. While I love relay races, I'm a outgoing person who likes talking to people. So I thought what if there was a race that allowed teams to run a relay while staying in one place and hanging out? So my idea was born. I had a few people ask me the question "Can I run by myself, I'd really like to do a marathon but the time limits scare me?" So I said what the heck we'll add an individual division and call it the superman division. Ow by the way this is a 12 hour race! Well the superman (woman) division has become popular and we had 13 states represented last year. So this week I confirmed a host hotel that would give our runners a great discount. With so many people traveling in it seemed important to have. This year we will likely be adding a pasta dinner at the Friday night packet pick up and coaches meeting. (Money to benefit Newspapers in Education.) I'm still hoping to get The Element to come set up a both and sell running gear but they are still not on board. We will have a couple people out at the race for messages, that will be new this year. Some of this isn't even posted on the website yet since everything isn't confirmed but will be soon. It's really different seeing a race from the directors point of view. I think everyone should work at one race in their life...I know I really see the care that goes into races that I didn't see before. I know how hard it must have been at Chicago trying to get 30,000 runners 2 and 3 cups of water at every mile...I can't imagine trying to get 90,000 cups filled at every water station.
Try to stay warm everyone and stay on those 7 pounds.
Ow check out my race at www.hawthornhalfdayrelay.com
The only good news is that it's finally going to warm up this week. I'm tired of running in the snow. I can only imagine how bad it is for those on the East Coast that got all that snow. I really feel for you. I've got a big 60K coming up in a few weeks and I'm still on my way back from the IT Band injury so any set back is a mountain instead of a mole hill. All you runners out there, best wishes over the next month or so, stay safe and stay warm. If you know of any great races let me know about it. Next up is the Land Between the Lakes 60K March 10th.
