It's been a while

My running friends. I miss running with my friends on Saturday morning.  It was nice to be able to run together a few weeks ago when I was in Moorpark.  I'm starting to run more often.  My achilles is not totally healed, but I'm doing ok.  I'm still heating it before a run and icing it after.  It seems to do the trick.

I have been trying to change my running form and it has gotten a lot better.  I'm meeting my running coach in Louisiana on the 11th of August.  I'm taking a short little detour when I go on a business trip that week to Orlando, Florida.  Louisiana is on the way, right?!  I hope he "fixes" me.  I have noticed a lot of improvement in my efficiency.  I'm only now starting to take advantage of it as I have been running more often.  The occasional on-line training sessions have been helpful and helped me to reach my current plateau, but I don't think I can make any further progress without some direct coaching.

The third week of August (August 26th and 27th) Danielle and I are running in the Hood to Coast relay.  Alise may run a leg or two with us.  That will be fun.  I love, love, love running with my girls.  In 53 days, I'll be able to run with my son, Derek.  He is returning from his mission to Brazil, Salvador South and I am so proud of him.

I'll see you soon...

Run for Sat

7am running the wash. Corner of LA ave and Spring.

This one looks like fun

My nephew told me to check this relay out - the Red Rock Relay in S. UT. It looks fantastic! They have two different courses, one in Moab in May and the other in Zion in Sept. I am definitely going to run this sometime, my only concern is the altitude. How to train for altitude when we live here in Cali?

saturday morning run

hey all. let's meet at the rite-aid tomorrow for our run. we'll take tierra rejada towards simi and come back. see you there.

Video Makes the Ragnar Guru Video of the Week

The video that John Stewart made of our team has been picked up by the Ragnar Guru website.
Check it out here.

saturday morning run

hey tom. i've mapped out a new course for the run tomorrow. let's meet at the corner of l.a. and spring. we'll be going on l.a., up miller, around the underwood farm area, and back down spring. it comes out to barely over six miles (6.07). dave is out of town this weekend, so most likely us two will test out this new route. if any of you other slackers want to join us, please do.

Ragnar Movie Online!

Here is the video of our teams 2011 Ragnar experience....for all to enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/26205016

John

John!

Your movie is so much better than the winning movie, or any of the other few I watched.  The winning movie was so annoying I only watched half of it.  Yours is so great!  It makes it look like we had so much fun the entire time!  We did, right?  Thanks for your hard work.

Sat. morning run

7am corner of Spring and LA ave, running the wash

ragnar: florida keys!!

so i recently got an e-mail (you probably got it too) from ragnar about the race happening in the florida keys. i clicked on the link and went to the course map. big mistake on my part because i am now thinking of irrationale and foolhardy ways of saving up the money to run in this race. anybody in? don't throw out the idea until you've seen the course map: http://www.ragnarrelay.com/race/floridakeys/course_maps. anyways, most likely i'll never run this race, but it kind of makes our 'so cal' course seem boring. you can't really compare temecula with the beautiful gulf of mexico/florida keys.

saturday morning run

hello all. for our run tomorrow let's meet at the rite-aid and do the "figure eight." we'll run around the neighborhood and then a lap around underwood farms. it comes out to six miles. if you don't want to run as long you can run around the neighborhood twice or just once. hope to see you there. the more the better, or something like that.