St. George Marathon!!!

The lottery for the St. George Marathon was announced today and Brady and I got in!!  Brady's going to work on qualifying for the Boston Marathon(which he will probably do) and I will work on trying to survive the whole 26.2 miles(Which I probably won't do).

To qualify for the Boston Marathon for a male age 30-34 you have to run the St. George marathon in 3:10! Good Luck Brady!  Did Tiff or Seneca enter and get in this year?

Goin' Running...again!

 I got up at 5:30 am and ran 6 1/2 miles this morning. I had to get back home before I could finish my 13 miles today. I had a bunch of family in town today and we hung out with them  after that. So, I'm gettin' ready to put my stuff on and go run 6 1/2 more miles!  Should be fun in the dark with the headlamp!  I would definitely recommend that we all start running twice or three times in a 24-hour period once every week or two to get used to what Ragnar will be like. My right arch is aching from this morning's run, but I got to reach my goal of 13 miles today and I need to get used to running at weird times of the day and night and especially while being exhausted. 

I hope everybody is getting excited about Ragnar and not dreading it. There is still time for major training and improvement, but you gotta get rollin'! 

   Still waiting to hear our starting time. :(

Volunteers can now register!

As of 9am today, volunteers can sign up. It's important to do it asap because the good normal hour slots are filling up. My brother Andy has volunteered to do a shift in Logan. We need two more volunteers which do about five hour shifts. They do get a T-shirt out of it. Yay. I added the volunteer link to the running links. IMPORTANT: make sure the volunteer signs up under team #535 Wagnoh Welay Wunnahs where it asks if they are volunteering for a team.

Tiff, in response to your question a couple of days ago, a driver doesn't count as a volunteer. The shifts are 4-5 hrs. long. Do we know what size or type of vehicle Van 1 is driving yet? Anybody want to offer their vehicle? My dad has a Durango and we have an Odyssey. We've never had a driver before because the van was already packed with the 6 runneres, food, water, and their gear. If we don't get a big enough vehicle we will be extra crammed in if we have an extra person driving. So we need to determine if we can fit a seventh person in depending on size of the vehicle.

TIME IS COUNTING DOWN! Five weeks of training left! We are still waiting to hear what our starting time is. Any discussion on changing legs?

Ragnar Shakes Things Up!!! Please read carefully.

  I hope everybody saw the e-mail from Ragnar today because Legs 16-31 were GREATLY  affected by the changes.  Here's the way I see each person's legs in Van 1 being affected:

Tyson:  a little Easier  (18.5 miles total)

Brenna: Easier (13 miles total)

Steve: Harder (18.4 miles total)

Mary: About the same (13.1 miles)

Kip: Easier (13.6 miles)

Tiff: Harder (17.8 miles)

Take a look at your legs and see if you feel like switching with somebody. Brenna and I thought about switching legs with Steve who would become runner #2, I would be #3, and Brenna would take #5.  If I stick with #5 however, my last leg is now only 2.6 miles which could be a good thing because if somebody is not feeling well for their last leg I could probably run it for them(I need to clarify that with the Race Bible though).  Please throw out any suggestions. 

We're still waiting to hear about our starting time. And, we need some volunteers to work a shift at one of the Exchanges! I was gonna talk to my younger brother about helping out.  I believe we need 3 volunteers or else we have to pay money for Ragnar to hire people to work at the exchanges.  They get a free Ragnar shirt just like the ones we will get. Please let me know if you can find a volunteer because we need to register them on the Ragnar site.

Also, I set it up for those of you whose e-mail I have to receive a notification any time a post is made on the blog. Please send me your e-mail if you want that notification and I'll include it.

Also, I just saw that I could give everybody administrative privileges on the blog so I did. So you can change or add anything you want now. Hoo Hah!

Have a good Saturday run!