Running...more Running

So yesterday at work I was talking with one of my co-workers who is a "runner." He has run a marathon before and is planning on running another one this summer. He also intends to run the Ragnar? Which to me sounds like a creature from Star Wars and not a race. So I started talking about that and he has a few vacancies on his team. What is the Ragnar? http://www.ragnarrelay.com/about That gives some insight to what the Ragnar is- It sounds like it is something I could do if I had the right team....Maybe this year that means running with my co-worker- but next year...We should do a Neff Family to the X-tremem Dream Team Ragnar running company!! This gives us a year to prepare to take on this challenge- I think we should do it with 12 people- 200 miles / 12 people = 16.67 miles, which is divided in to 3 legs so approximately 5.5 miles per leg. All of this is done is a 48 hour stretch. My math here is based on averages but I would say if you can run a 6-8 mile stretch you could help make team NF2tXDTRco all winners! So..my challenge to all of you reading this is to think about June 2013 and the Ragnar! Let's commit to it now and start preparing- please comment on this thread if you are interested in making this commitment :)

Running..10K here I come!

Welcome March and welcome Spring! I look forward to spring for a myriad of reasons, first and foremost is the fact that very soon it will be warmer than freezing all the times. So today after a long break from running (like 6 days) I decided it was time to see how far I could run before I just had no more strength left in me. Lucky for me Gold's Gym has the Cardio Cinema! Which makes running for a long period of time more bearable. They were showing some weird movie with some weird people in it, believe it or not they were also doing weird things. Like this dude was trying to save the minister's daughter and so he basically murders everyone in his stinking way and then gets the girl. At any rate- I ran! I warmed up for like 3 minutes and went a distance of .15 then I ran for the next 47 minutes straight. In that time I was able to run 4.70 miles! So 10 K (which is like 6.2 miles is not that far off). I had to prove to myself that I could run for a long span of time and put some serious miles on the treadmill. Well I did! Basically I should be able to hit 6.2 miles by the end of the month at the rate I am progressing. Moral of the story.....watching movies in a theater like room makes running somewhat less of the suck.