Birthday RUNS.......and fun!

Sunday is Ann's birthday and next Thursday is Diane's. Ann is at the lakes with a bunch of relatives, so let's combine their Birthday run. Thursday morning 5:30 downtown Y. It is also time to party (there is more in life than running) let's meet at the HO-DO at 6:45 on Thursday (the 6th) for drinks and chatter. Hopefully it will be a nice night and we can go up on the roof......

Great River Relay...HUGE SUCCESS!

So many stories to share...and just not enough space on this blog....

We had an awesome time on the route from Wisconsin to Minnesota. Our finishing time was 32 hours and 23 minutes. We brought home third place in the women's category and were voted by our fellow racers for the Homecoming Spirit Award!!!!! We had a blast! When we went to the starting line....we had people staring at us and taking our pictures.....during the race, teams would catch up to us and tell us they were just waiting for the time they would catch up to meet the W.H.O.Rs! We entered almost every exchange station with music blasting from the Tahoe and Durango, blaring a fog horn with brightly colored wigs, crazy sunglasses and a lot of commotion. Our goal was to stir it up....and that we did!

We met some really great people and some of the WHORs reunited with old friends from years ago. The Faster Pastors were a great group of men who we ran with the majority of the race as an ultra team (6 men). They took fondly to our humor during the race!

We had only minor mishaps during the route..... a few people sick from dehydration, a last minute race re-route that turned Jen's last 4.4 mile run into a terribly long and unannounced 7.1 miles and some bad driving directions provided by Ragnar. But Jen and Leslie were SUPERSTARS and TORE up the hills! Jane is a superhero and runs faster than she claims....she hovers at a 8:00 minute mile or less. The majority of the team enjoy the night runs the best...and almost all of us had our best times during the evening hours.

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