Getting close to the two digit miles! Yikes!

Good Friday everybody! Hope you are up to our new challenge... our first 8 miler. Yes! We are going to do it... we can do it!!!

So this is the plan... Do one Lake loop and get some water/gatorade at our usual water stop. Go down Commonwealth Blvd. all the way to Oilfield Rd. (there is going to be a water stop halfway and another at the end). Come back to our usual water stop and then finish it off with either a Connector Loop or a Lake loop nice and strong! Lake loop = 1.15 miles, Commonwealth = 5.9 miles and Connector = 0.7 miles for a total of 7.75 miles finishing with the Connector or 8.2 miles finishing with the Lake loop.

Here is a link to a map of the Commonwealth run I plotted on Map My Run.

There you have it... See you tomorrow at 7am. Also, I am going to Academy right now to get some energy boost samples for you all to try out. And I promise this weekend I am going to post about supplements and a recap of last week's Stretch and Injury Clinic.

God bless you and beatSMA!

Route for Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 7am at Memorial Park Sugar Land

Hey everyone! I am going to be super brief because I am out on vacation in Puerto Rico!!! Well, Annette Rewa is going to bring water and Gatorade to this Saturday's practice since I am out. So we need to fit in 5 miles this week. We are going to to 2 Lake Loops + 1 Connector Trail back and forth + 2 Lake Loops. That should be 5.4 miles. Hope you are doing great and for those of you with kids going to school, hope you are ready for a new school year!

Let's beatSMA for Alejandro!!!

Route for Aug. 15, 2009 at Sugar Land Memorial Park

Hello Team!!! Hope your are doing great out there and that you enjoyed some of the "cooler" weather. This week it has been a tough for me, not enough sleep. But, we can't expect everyday to be perfect. And we can't expect that every run will be a perfect run too. Nevertheless, as I tell Alejandro all the time, practice makes perfect... it will get better if you keep persevering at it!

This coming Saturday we need to do 4 miles for those of you that are doing the half marathon. So the route will be the same as last Saturday. Unless, the South Meadow Loop Trail is still under construction. If it is so, then we will run 4.4 miles by running the Connector Trail back and forth plus the Lake Loop twice (1.85 miles x 2 = 3.70 miles) and adding just the Connector Trail back and forth (0.70 miles) once more with no Lake Loop.

Reminders and Announcements:

• Write down in your calendars that Sat. September 12th we will have our Stretch and Injury Prevention Clinic by Dr. Nadeau. Please, plan to attend to this practice.
• This Saturday there will be an event at Texas Running Company, take advantage of it if you can...15% Asics apparel. Call store for details, it might be just in certain hours. For store hours and telephone click here.
  

First Practice at Sugar Land Memorial Park on Saturday, Aug. 1st 6:30am

We start to close up our first week of training. Hopefully most of your have registered for an event and gone shopping for some shoes. Don't let your motivation go to sleep... get up and get moving!!!

Many of you are going to be either out of town or your spouse is, so it's going to be a small group... small but with great enthusiasm! We are going to meet at 6:30am for this first practice. It was changed because it is hot, and both runners that are going to meet so far are ok with this change. We will meet at the Sugar Land Memorial Park Pavillion and our run will be 3 miles. Here is the Trail Map.

The run will be a Lake loop (1.15 miles), then the Connector Trail out and back (0.7 miles) and finally the Lake Loop one more time (1.15 miles). Water will be at the start/finish of the Lake Loop.

Blessings and a peaceful run to all! Go beatSMA!!!