Sometimes the best race experience is not racing at all! That’s right, volunteering for a race can be just as fun and rewarding as participating in the event yourself! Race directors depend on volunteers for a successful event. Without volunteers races just wouldn’t happen. This past weekend I had the opportunity to volunteer at the [...]
Most people that know me see me as a highly motivated, self-starter who leads group runs and encourages others. However, even the most highly motivated individuals can use some encouragement themselves now and then. That would be me right now. I’m seven weeks into a 16 week marathon training program and have been sick with [...]
It started with a Facebook post from my friend Shaun asking if any of us wanted to join her on this cycling event. Of course I was curious and looked up more information…although very little “more” information was to be found. The website gave four distances to choose – 70 mile, 50, 30 and 15 [...]
Half Marathon 6 Weeks Away Many of the Havasu Hustlers Run Club Members will be participating in a half marathon just six weeks away. When talking about it at the group run on Saturday several wondered if they had time to train for it. So here is a simple 6 week half marathon training plan [...]
So you trained hard for sixteen weeks; followed a training plan at least 80%; had a couple really good training weeks; and felt pretty dang confident on race day. If you’re like me you have a finish time goal that you’ll be happy with, one that you share with your training buddies and Facebook friends, [...]
Let’s face it, swimming at the community pool day after day or even a couple times per week can get pretty redundant if you don’t have a plan. Lately I’ve been putting together different work-outs to vary things up and make swimming in the pool more fun. Here’s a new one we did today that [...]
