Friday – The start

After leaving our cabin, and noticing the road down was almost scarier in the daylight, we made it to Grayson State park in no time.  Heading up the main road, we saw a couple runners coming down, and that was encouraging. Stopping at the gate, we asked the lady if we only have 20 minutes [...]

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Blue Ridge Relay (BRR) – Part 1

[Note: You can also read this on Coach K's site. He was the team captain - I was the team driver / photographer / journalist / assistant time keeper / primary food eater / etc...Part II is over here. ] Thursday, September 3rd, 2008: The morning started with a team meeting at Keith’s house – our [...]

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Should be catching up soon!

For those of you who don’t know, I was out for the last 4 days crewing a team for the Blue Ridge Relay. We had a blast, and I’ll have several posts over the next week talking about it. There will be plenty of pictures too. Don’t worry, the running streak is intact. For some [...]

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Long awaited group session

Saturday brought our merry band of runners together for an evening of camraderie and sweat. Most of us started the morning with our usual group run, a casual 5 to 8 miles followed by the breakfast of soon-to-be champions. (Mcdonalds.)  From there, we went our separate ways for the day, and reconvened at 7:00 PM. [...]

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