Sunday, September 26, 2010

Barefoot running videos

I thought some of you might be interested in these two videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrnj-7YKZE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9itkEkcQ8WM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

James

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Begging for race fees

Hey team!  We have everyone registered with Ragnar now.  Hooray.  There are still several that have not paid me their portion of the race fee yet.  If you didn't know, I paid our $1,500 team fee about a month ago.  I wouldn't mind if you brought by a check soon.  :-)

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Ragnar: Running from Responsibility Team #1 Complete

We just completed the team today!  Tom Omer came over, gave me a check and said, "I'm in!"

Welcome Tom!  Right now, we aren't considered a "mixed team", because we don't have an even set of males to females, but if we get more interested we may end up shuffling people around between the teams to hopefully get back to the "mixed team" ratio.

I added a few links to the blog (http://runningfromresponsibility.blogspot.com/) for your reference such as training guides and course maps.

James

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Running from Responsibility Team #4

We are officially registered for the So Cal Ragnar Relay. We are team #4.
I've set up a new blog to broadcast and communicate all Ragnar 2011 information. http://runningfromresponsibility.blogspot.com/
Feel free to post questions, etc here. You'll also receive an email each time someone posts something as well.

Current Team
James Sloan
Danielle Sloan
David Greding
Rebecca Greding
Wade Altom
Amy Adams

John Stewart
Nikki Fenske
Trevor Kavanagh
Michael Barnett (Trevor's friend who ran the Wasatch Back last year)
Laura Wright
Unknown (must be female)

Commitments
We have 11 of our 12 member team that have committed at some level. I've received commitments via three different forms: "Official" in response to my request from the RagnarRelay team page, "verbal" or "email" commitments. We need official commitments when you have time. Just respond to the email I sent from the Ragnar website. We still need one more female to round out our "mixed" team.

Registration Fee
I've paid the registration fee and the volunteer fee since I didn't think we would be able to get volunteers to travel down south. The total combined fee is $125 per person. When you have an opportunity, please give me a check for the fee.

15 Passenger Van
I have started looking into renting 15 passenger vans. So far the most reasonable price I have found is $99 per day. For those that participated in previous years, we were all very envious of those that had something bigger than a minivan. If we did this, I estimate the cost would be between $33 to $50 depending on what kind of taxes they will add to the rental fee. I think this might be a small price to pay for a lot more comfort over the 30 plus hours of the race. Especially if we can't find places to sleep near the major exchanges. I would like to know your thoughts.

James Sloan