Week of July 18

To fill you in Aspen, we may have enough runners with one to spare. Wendy and Paul's friend as of right now may be running as well as Lon has shown some interest in running also. Brent's 15 passenger van needs to be registered and needs a new windshield, so hopefully he can take care of this before race day. When you called last night Aspen we were taking the new route that goes to Preston. WOW! Talk about "off road", we had a great time laughing about who gets to run out in no man's land or the gravel one way road that was not meant to be used to run on let alone a relay. It will be interesting. Care to make any other comments about it Becca? As of right now, Robert still has not made final assignments on who will run what for the race with all of the drastic changes in the route, he will need to re-assign some of the numbers, so keep running! Aspen, great to hear you are doing so good, a 5K already after a week!
What I am going to work on most this week is hydration. On Saturday, I attempted running 7 miles in the middle of the afternoon. I left the house @ 4:00 pm and had a camel pack strapped to my back to see how that would work. NOT GOOD! I could not get the chest strap tight enough so it would move around and rubbed me raw where it was on my back. Then, when I went to get a drink, for the first few sips the water was warm that was in the tube, but the worst part was that I could feel myself getting really warm and wanted to splash water over my head or in my face and you can't do that with the camel pack. Felt like I could run farther, but needed to cool down, so only made it 2 miles, and turned around, only running 4 of the 7 planned. The sun and heat really drained me quickly. So, this week, I am going to try and carry a water bottle with me everywhere I go and drink plenty of water during the day to keep hydrated. Heard on the news about a 10K run that had people dropping like flies because of the heat. Hope everyone (especially those that will be running in the middle of the day) we can get them water throughout their leg so that they don't overheat.
Anyway, here is the schedule I am following this week. Will try and do some of these runs at different times of the day and night.
Monday, July 18- cross training
Tues. July19- 4 miles
Wed. July 20- cross training
Thur. July21- 4 miles
Fri. July 22- cross training
Sat. July 23- 7-10 miles- will attempt it again
Sun. July 24- Off