Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Happy New (running) Year!

The 2011 running season is fast approaching! I looked at my race schedule, and I only have seven weeks till the Red Hot 50K… and my “holiday break” consisted of eating, hosting family parties, eating, attending family and work parties, eating, a couple ski days, eating, and then just generally eating. I didn’t run for 10 days, so I’m paying for that now! Enough said about that!

I hit it on Monday, and have laid out my training schedule to get me back to reality by the Red Hot, and then four weeks later I’m doing the Moab 100 Mile Endurance Run, so I have to treat the Red Hot 50k as just a long training day (i.e. no resting afterwards).

This year I’m using the Moab 100 to raise funds for my daughter Paislee to be able to return to Brazil as a volunteer for the MORE Project. A donation “per mile” completed up to the 100 is the idea, but obviously she’ll be grateful for anything at all. She went last year and became very attached to the children she helped in the “Favelas” there, and seeing the drug wars and poverty surrounding them she has decided she can make a significant difference by going there again. If you are inclined to help, you can click the link at the top of my blog page and donate to her account with the MORE Project.

Lastly, I have “put in” for the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run, and if I draw out for it, that will obviously change my September schedule. I REALLY want to run the Wasatch this year, as it’s part of the “Grand Slam” of endurance runs (the Vermont 100, the Leadville 100, the Wasatch 100, and the Western States 100), and I’m contemplating taking a whack at the Grand Slam in 2012. More on that insanity later.

As always, I’ll attempt to blog from the actual races where connectivity allows, and will post race reports after each event. Happy New Year!