Goofy Training Continues.

This weekend was a challenging back to back running combination. On Saturday I ran 8.5 miles with Stephanie which was a great run, I had overdressed as I was deceived by the frost that was on the car in the morning, it looked colder out then it actually was.

8.5 miles later and we are both still smiling.

Sunday I ran with Carol and Lynda and we had to run 18 miles. Carol joined us for 13 miles which was a nice way of splitting up the miles. The last 2 miles were tough. 

Lynda and I made it back to my house where we met the paparazzi. 

18.3 miles later!!

(a little extra just for fun)

After sitting on the stairs I didn't think I would get back up again.

Step down week next weekend. 

Train on......53 days to Disney's Goofy Challenge!!! 

Thunder Bay Metre Eaters

I haven`t posted in awhile but the Goofy training continues which I will post about in a different post. I just wanted to share this, I and three other Metre Eaters Dave and Robin have been nominated for Metre Eater of the Year, I was so excited when I heard this, the other candidates have some pretty heavy duty resumes when it comes to running and volunteering in the running community. We voted the other night at the Metre eaters meeting and won`t find out until January who got the title.
Sherry one of my fellow runners who was on the committee that handles the voting process wrote a biography about me which I would just like to share, I really enjoyed what she wrote ( I`m a geek, is it bad to like to hear about yourself). Enjoy.

Goofy Training

This morning I headed out to run 13 miles as per the Goofy schedule, the back to back runs are going very well thus far.
I went from my house to Boulevard and around Boulevard and so on and so on, when I was at Boulevard I got a bleeding nose and this is what I then looked like from that point on....

Yeah I am a Treasure!!

I bought a new pair of winter running pants yesterday and they are amazing, they have the wind panel on the front of the legs and the wind panel on the bum part of the pants, yes I said the bum part, there are not to many pants that have that panel on the back. I was thrilled with my purchase. 

1/2 baked Half Marathon

I love these kinds of events, groups of people coming out and enjoying a great day together, no pressure.

The ladies that organize this event are amazing, it really must take allot of work and they pull it together so well. The only rules of this run are,
1. You start whenever you need to in order to be back at the Kamview Chalet by 1100 am to make it back for breakfast.
2. Have Fun
We started out at 730, pitch dark, and thrilled to be together for this fun run. Alison, Kathy, Stephanie, Carol, Eryn, Mary Ellen, Brenda and Anna. Mary Ellen, Brenda and Anna started at 0900 to walk 1 hour out and 1 hour back. It was awesome.
It was pitch black when we started and this is a picture of Kathy in the dark when we started.

Kathy in the dark.

At each mile marker they posted signs with these great quotes on them, which were fun to read along the way. Last year we had missed the 1 mile marker because it was pitch dark out,  but Kathy scoped it out this year and we did not miss it. 

At mile 5 Stephanie, Alison, and I turned around as we were running 10 miles and Eryn, Carol and Kathy kept going to the half way point as they were running 13.1 miles. 

This is what the half way point looked like (thanks Kathy for taking these pictures). 

We ran into the gang on our way back, and they looked like they were enjoying themselves. Mary Ellen, Brenda and Anna (in her parka, smart girl)

we all made it back safe and sound, congrats to everyone whatever distance they traveled or by whatever means they traveled. What a great day....now for the best part....

Congratulations to Stephanie for 10 miles

Kamview 1/2 Marathon

Every year I think to myself, sure lets run this as a relay team again. It is the same concept as giving birth (never have) but you forget about it until the next time. This run is 3 loops of 4.5 miles and runners can either run the whole race or do it as a relay. My team dresses up every year, the first year we were the three blind mice, last year we were the Chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, this year we were Bride, Groom and the Priest.

 The Three Blind Mice 2010

Me, Karen and Jodi

Alvin, Simon and Theodore 2011

Jodi, Karen and Me.

Bride, Groom and the Priest 2012

Jodi, Me and Karen. 

The race is uphill for about 3.5 miles, while running it you think that you can't possibly climb any higher and yet you keep climbing. 

I had an awesome run, I was able to run all the hills leading up to the top and then coasted on the down hills, years previously I would have had to walk up the hills feeling like my heart was going to blow up, but not this year.

Who knows what we'll dress up as next year.......

Bring on the Great Weather

I have been enjoying the cool refreshing weather that October and now November has brought us. I have been getting in my training runs for the Goofy Challenge and a 1/2. Stephanie and I headed out to Kamview to run on the back country roads last weekend, it is so beautiful and peaceful out there (especially when we are always running in the city, sucking exhaust at every turn).
It is always cool now when starting out but shortly after starting I get warm and off comes some of the layers (as usual).

I would choose to run on dirt roads any day, we had headed out Candy Mountain Road in preparation for the Half Baked Half Marathon. I have ran this fun women's run for 2 years and this year I plan to run it with Alison, Kathy, Carol, Eryn and Stephanie and run 10 miles of the 13 miles. 

I will fill you in on how the Half Baked went, enjoy the great weather before the snow falls.