a warrior dash training we go.
Our feet help us run, we're having such fun
And we hope we break no bo-ones
(that word is bones, stretched out......sing it to "Over the River and Through the Woods" in case you were confused)
So. Less than a week to go. And I've been beyond delinquent with posting. I do have a valid, legitimate excuse though, at least in my opinion. I've been rent-a-nanny for the past few weeks on and off.
My brother is stationed at Fort Dix right now, and is a single father of a very active three year old boy. He's currently in air traffic control, and is working his butt off, but is on shift work which consists of two weeks of days and two weeks of nights. During his weeks of nights, he goes in at 3 and gets home around 11, so normally his son goes into a baby sitter's house and falls asleep there until Kevin is able to pick him up. Enter Auntie :)
I've gone down three times in the last four weeks to help out with Colton (his son) so that they could have some home cooked meals and quality time. I'm loving the proximity and the fact that I get to see my brother and nephew more, and get to help out. That said, it's fairly exhausting parenting a toddler, so I've been negligent with my postings because by the time I get him bathed and down to bed I'm about ready to crash and usually do.
Training has been going wonderfully now that we have the expanded terrain/area on which we go. It's such a help having the extension of ground to cover to make it as close to the dash as humanly possible. Rich (the guy with whom I'm running) is just in amazing shape. He sets the pace for going up the hill and I do my best to try to catch him. He stays about 5-8 minutes ahead of me, and I try to keep him in sight distance. Unfortunately, every time I get closer, he pushes himself to try to lose me. It's a fun game of cat and mouse that has really stepped up our run. We're able to do the whole 3+ miles in 43 minutes. I realize that sounds horribly lame, but if I had been able to get a video of the road on which we train, you'd understand it's much more of a steep hike than a flat jog around a level track, so keeping the pace and time that we have has made us very proud.
I'm anxious to run/hike/jog the dash again this year, knowing what I'm facing. Last year I completed it in one hour, one minute, twenty seconds. My goal was to knock off at least 20 seconds this year, but I'll do the best I can. I'm doing light training this week, drinking protein packed chocolate milk (mmmmm, milk) and picking up our team shirts. Yes, you read right, team shirts.
I have a former business associate who owns a screen printing company. He and his business are awesome. Visit it at
http://www.mixtureprints.com/ . Chris does individual custom screen printing if you have a self design or only need a singular or few shirts made. So tomorrow I get the LBC Warrior tanks that were made so we can be matching on Saturday. We're going to have LBC Warriors on the front and our names on the back with the dates we're running. I'll have last year's and this year's, and Rich will have this year's dates. Every event we do, and every date we run we'll have added to the back of the tanks. And if we have anyone else join the ranks, they'll get shirts too with their names and dates on the backs of them.
I'm exhausted at this point, but cautiously optimistic about the run. I'm hoping I do better this year but again, having had surgery in January, as long as I finish I'll be happy. And with surgery about a month away, I'm cramming as much into my remaining weeks as possible. As is, I have no clue how long it'll take my body to fully recover from this one and if I'll have full mobility afterward.
So I'll try to update once more with the pic of the shirts. And then, on Saturday at 9am, we run, we hike, we conquer. And I'll do a post update for y'all with pics :)
Thanks for your love, support, and prayers. It means the world to me.
Love ya,
B
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