Team Name

Ok so I was wondering if we could pick a theme to dress up as when we cross the finishline and come up with a name from there.....like maybe we could name oursleves after some really bad 80's song like dancing on the ceiling or like a virgin.....then we could all wear legwarmers and plastic jewlery and crimp our hair! Or we could go with "we who must not be named" and dress up like Harry Potter. Either way.....it would be fun to do something to humiliate Jeff at the finishline. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! (that was my evil laugh.....just so you know!)

Just wanted to do a quick post and let you all know that I had and AWESOME run this morning. I felt so good! I am very excited to run with you all in June! And I really miss you all!

skinny minny

So since this is our blog about our accomplishments. I thought I would take this forum to blog about my weight loss. Hopefully it will keep me going and inspired and accountable to you all! So I started Weight Watchers with two friends in my ward here about five weeks ago. My friend works for Weight Watchers and so I don't have to pay to go to the meetings or for any of the materials. We just meet at her house on Friday mornings and she weighs us in on her Weight Watchers scale and then we get the next weeks information etc. It is AWESOME! Of course I am the one that needs to lose the most weight but I am over it. So as of today I have lost 15 and a half pounds! I was so excited to get on the scale this morning and see that number! My goal was to have lost fifty pounds by our race in June and so far it seems that that goal is within reach. I have about 35 pounds left! I am not as brave as Becky to get in a bikini and jump on my trampoline for my before pictures BUT maybe when I reach my goal weight I will post a picture of me in a bathing suit.....probably still not jumping on a trampoline. Anyone else who feels that they need to lose a few pounds (even though I don't think any of my sisters, that includes you Missy, need to lose a pound, but we all feel differently about our bodies) feel free to blog about it as well. It will keep me motivated! Mom I know that you are doing this as well so you can chime in too!

WE NEED MORE IDEAS FOR TEAM NAMES!

Get thinkin!!.......lets propose to post a vote next month!

Here is the "novice" training recomendations from the Ragnar Website

Run at your own "comfortable" pace for the given amount of time. "Comfortable" might mean walking periodically in order to complete the workout. That's OK; the important thing is that you stick to the length of time allotted for each workout. If you miss a workout don't worry, just start from where you are on the schedule.

Date	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
Feb 4	15MN	R/C	15MN	R/C	15MN	R/C	Rest
Feb 11	15MN	R/C	15MN	R/C	15MN	R/C	Rest
Feb 18	15MN	R/C	15MN	R/C	15MN	15MN	Rest
Feb 25	15MN	R/C	15MN	R/C	15MN	20MN	Rest
Mar 3	15MN	R/C	15MN	R/C	15MN	25MN	Rest
Mar 10	20MN	R/C	20MN	R/C	15MN	30MN	Rest
Mar 17	20MN	R/C	30MN	R/C	20MN	40MN	Rest
Mar 24	25MN	R/C	25MN	R/C	20MN	45MN	Rest
Mar 31	25MN	R/C	30MN	R/C	25MN	50MN	Rest
Apr 7	30MN	R/C	35MN	R/C	25MN	55MN	Rest
Apr 14	30-H	R/C	40MN	R/C	30MN	60MN	Rest
Apr 21	35-H	R/C	45MN	R/C	30MN	20/20MN	Rest
Apr 28	35-H	R/C	50MN	R/C	35MN	80MN	Rest
May 5	40-H	R/C	55MN	R/C	35MN	25/25MN	Rest
May 12	40-H	R/C	60MN	R/C	40MN	100MN	Rest
May 19	45-H	R/C	65MN	Rest	45MN	30/30MN	Rest
May 26	45-H	R/C	70MN	Rest	30MN	120MN	Rest
Jun 2	50-H	R/C	60MN	Rest	30MN	35/35/35	Rest
Jun 9	60-H	R/C	50MN	Rest	40MN	20/40	Rest
Jun 16	30MN	R/C	20MN	Rest	Race	Race	Sleep!

Schedule Key
H = Hills - start and finish hill workouts with 10 min of easy running
/ = Multiple Runs - two to three runs within 24 hours
MN = Minutes
R/C = Rest or Cross-Train Easy - this is your easy recovery day

Remember that this is just recomendations...but we should all train HILLS. (up and down) WORK IT GIRLS!I LOVE YOU ALL!!

IM IN!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok well so far i can run a 10 min mile! because i got sick i stopped running but im starting today! hopfully ill get 3miles again! but who knows! i dont really know what ishould be doing to prepare though except run. so someone let me know k!? love ya all hope you guys are doing good with your running!!

Here is the distance chart! Call your dibs!

Ok DON'T FREAK OUT!! We CAN and WILL do this. I jut wanted you to get a feel for how this is going to go. You have to pick one set of 3 legs. NO SWAPPING ALLOWED! If you get injured...someone on your team has to run them for you. So......this is what we are looking at! Take a deep breath and say....OH YES I CAN!

Runner	1st Leg	2nd Leg	3rd Leg	Total
1	5.1 miles | Easy	7.8 miles | Hard	5.6 miles | Hard	18.5 miles
2	6.7 miles | Hard	3 miles | Easy	5.3 miles | Hard	15 miles
3	5.6 miles | Moderate	4.9 miles | Easy	5.1 miles | Moderate	15.6 miles
4	5.1 miles | Moderate	3.1 miles | Easy	5 miles | Hard	13.2 miles
5	7.4 miles | Very Hard	5.4 miles | Moderate	4.1 miles | Moderate	16.9 miles
6	6.9 miles | Very Hard	5.6 miles | Hard	3.6 miles | Easy	16.1 miles
7	4.1 miles | Easy	3.9 miles | Moderate	4.1 miles | Easy	12.1 miles
8	3.3 miles | Easy	7 miles | Moderate	6.1 miles | Moderate	16.4 miles
9	3.1 miles | Easy	6.2 miles | Moderate	3.6 miles | Very Hard	12.9 miles
10	3.9 miles | Easy	6.4 miles | Moderate	4 miles | Very Hard	14.3 miles
11	3.8 miles | Hard	4.6 miles | Moderate	3.1 miles | Hard	11.5 miles
12	3.9 miles | Very Hard	5.2 miles | Moderate	4.4 miles | Easy	13.5 miles

Runners 1-6 will be in Car 1 and 6-12 will be in car #2 so keep that in mind !
Easy to very hard is based on the "grade" (uphill/downhill)

We still only have 6 team members!!

Calling Ali, Joan, katie? Anyone else you can think of to rope into running on our team?
We need to start figuring out what legs everyone is going to run. As a team we need to average about an 11 minute mile to finish the race while the finish line is still up and going. So GET TRAINING! Ali and Becky are already in marathon shape so they should be able to just work on increasing their speed. I am doing that to right now. I am shooting for a nine minute mile or faster. Let me know what you guys think.