Training Runs

A great question was brought up in the comments on the last post, and since Lori is on an internet fast, she asked me to address it. The question was regarding training for Ragnar and if in your training you should do more than one run in a 24 hour period to train.
The answer is YES.
In your training for the Ragnar, at least 2 separate times you should run twice in a 24 hour time period to help your body get ready for running your respective legs. So a run in the morning and a run in the afternoon/evening that same day is definitely recommended. Tally ho! It's going to be great!

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check out the new poll. 

leave comments on this post if you click "can't come" or "want to reschedule" with other options and times that would work better for you. 

Upcoming run/meeting

Hey all, does the 30th work for everyone? We need to get together not only for a fun run but also for a meeting to talk about the following things:

• sponsorship
  
• volunteers (their shift would be Friday June 19th 4-8:30pm in Huntsville, we need two more)
  
• transportation (we need two suburbans or expeditions for the race)
  
• food assignments
  
• clothing (do we want matching shirts or visors? does any one have hookups?)
  
• how the race works/logistics
  
• leg changes
  
• other concerns/questions
  

How does 7:30am work on the 30th?  We'll go for a nice 6 miler and then have a meeting promptly following at 9am.  For those who can't make the run hopefully can make it to the meeting.  Kristin would it be okay to meet at your house again? Do any of you have questions right now that you'd like to me find answers for? Anything thing you think we need to cover at the meeting that we haven't yet?

Oh, and ps, I'm going on this random internet fast for the next 3 weeks (May 20-June 10).  While I'm offline I'm passing my "captain" torch to Amanda in case anything of importance comes up.  I don't think any major things take place for Ragnar between now and then but if so, don't worry they will be covered.  If you need to get ahold of me please don't email me.  Call me or text me.  If you don't have my phone number leave your email address and I'll email you my number.   Thanks!

Finishing up Registration

You should be getting an email soon from Ragnar in which you'll have to accept a waiver.  You HAVE to accept in order to be able to compete in the race.  So please do it.  :) 

Also, I don't have the registration info for the following:

Liz

Diana C

Trina

If you DID send it to me somehow it got deleted because all of my super magical searching in gmail results nothing.  So sorry if you have to retype it.  I'll need the following information:

Name

Address

Phone Number

10k pace

Shirt size

Birthday

Also, Heidi Nelson, runner #6 informed me today that she's not going to be able to race.  Amanda is already working on her replacement, we'll let you know who our new team member is.  We're sad to lose Heidi but hope she can join us next year (yah you read that right..,... you'll want to do it again, I promise..)

Thanks! 

Changes to the Course

I emailed you all. But in case you check this before the email, they have made significant changes to the race course. It effects legs 16-31, which means BOTH vans. Check out the new race bible, if adjustments need to take place we can adjust. Take a deep breath and try not to freak out.

Personally, I'm WAY pumped that my second leg went from a 6 mile "moderate" to a newly improved 7.7 mile "very hard" climb up canyon. Who wouldn't be? hee hee.

Our Team is Complete!

Welcome to all the new runners in Van #1.  If you get a chance post a little diddy about yourself with a picture; we'd love to get to know you.  (I sent an "author request" to your email acct, accept it and then you can write on this blog).  If you haven't paid me I need the money ASAP... please.  You can mail it to me, wire it to me or spray me with cash.. whatever.. I need your payments please.  Heidi, just let us know in the next few weeks how you feel about running the race.  We're cool either way.  Of course we'd love to have you, but we totally 100% understand being Mom's too.  The race will be here next year, so just let us know!

It looks like Saturday May 30th is the best day for everyone for a little run.  Put it on your calendars and we'll go from there.  I also want to set aside a day the week of the race to meet one evening go over the race logisitics and maybe even pack our vans.  Any thoughts/feelings/objections to that?

Oh... so I've been lax in actually registering everyone on the team. I know I know.  So in light of that I need you all to email me at lori (dot) aston (at) gmail (dot) com with the following info:

Name

Address

Phone

Email

Birthdate 

Shirt size

I know some of you already did this, which I really appreciate, but if you could resend it it would help me out a ton.  Thanks everyone!!

Saturday's Run & Some Random Business

Hey Everyone!  We had a great coooold run on Saturday.  The cinnamon rolls were fabulous and the company awesome.  We missed everyone that couldn't be there (which was about 80% of the team..haha).  The 4 of us had a spectactular time, we'd love to do it again.  We're thinking mid-May.  Will that work for everyone?  I'm going to throw up some dates on the sidebar.  Please vote.  

I just got an email from Ragnar having them request our start time. I need everyone to please leave a comment leaving me your 10k pace.  Once all the times are added together then I'll know what our average pace is, they will base our start time on that projected pace.  I need to put in our time request by next week.  Please submit your time by Saturday, if possible.  If you don't I'll guess, but I'd much rather have it be accurate.  

Also, how are we doing on sponsors? Volunteers?  Any leads?  How is everyone's training going? Personally, I need to start running hills a LOT more.  Yes yes I do.