April 2010
5 posts
Best motivational Nike quote ever...
You pretended the snooze button didn’t exist. You dragged your butt out of bed while other slept. While others ate their pancakes, you had a feast of protein, glucose and electrolytes. You double-knotted. You left the porch light on and locked the door behind you. You ran. 5ks, 10ks, 26.2 miles. Some days more, some days less. You rewarded a long run with a short run. And a short run with a long...
Impromptu Team Challenge Training
One of the benefits of Social Media is that communication is instant. So when Coach Anne decided to schedule an impromptu Team Training last night at the track right by my house (thank you Anne:)) it was pretty easy to get a decent size turnout simply by leveraging Twitter and Facebook.
Driving home from work, I drove past my neighbors having cocktails and appetizers on their front porches. My...
5 miles for Dawn
I’ve never met Dawn, and I likely never will, but tonight I ran 5 miles for her.
My day started at 6:30 am with some early conference calls. The weather outside was nothing short of frightful; cold, rainy, windy, definitely not running weather (at least not for me :)) By the time I got home I was approaching what I call “the danger zone”; the time when it’s easier to...
Group training #2: Easter Edition
Today was our 2nd team training session. We met at Lake Park Bistro and after our team cheer and question of the day, Coach Tim outlined a 1 mile route that we were to do for 1 hour. A 1 mile route sounded easy enough until I learned it included running up the stairs to get to Lake Park Bistro. So off we went- the best part of the run was going down the big hill, which I had only had the...
March 2010
8 posts
Tuesday 5am Moon Run: 4 miles
So today I needed to run 4 miles per my training schedule. The challenge was how to fit them in. I got up at quarter to 5 and hit the road. It was dark, and the moon was full and looked like it had a ring around it. My pace felt slow, and I know I should have eaten something before heading out, but didn’t have time. Took me 1 mile to warm up, then by mile 3 I really ran out of fuel and...
Day 1: Team Training @ the Petit
We met at the Petit Ice rink to run around the track. The Petit Center is an Olympic sized speed skating ice rink which has a running track that wraps around the outside of the ice. I had never been there before so just finding it with all the roads blocked off due to the potential bridge collapse felt like an accomplishment.
Once inside we did and icebreaker and then Get This Everyone- I was...
Team Challenge Kick-off meeting
Wednesday we had our Team Challenge Kick-off meeting at Koss. I arrived a bit late b/c I had to drive over to Koss from Waukesha. It was really fun- they had snacks and I met some cool people I knew from Twitter.
Because I had already raised $750 in donations I got presented with a T-Shirt in honor of “Cotton is Rotten”. This is the shirt I’ll be wearing during our training...