USAF Half Marathon, Sept 2012

A quick little video from the USAF Half Marathon in Dayton.

Training for Goofy (or Goofy Training)!

This past weekend was the first group training of the Winter Team for Team in Training. About a dozen of us met at Eagle Creek, which is a very nice park here in Indianapolis. The Winter Team is training for several winter running events, including a winter trail marathon here in town and the Goofy Challenge down in Florida at Disney World. I'm training for the Goofy Challenge, which is a half-marathon on Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday. If we complete both, we not only get the Donald Duck medal for the half and the Mickey Mouse medal for the full, we get a Goofy medal for being, well, goofy!

Those of you who know me are already aware that I've got a screw loose, so this should come as no surprise. I figure it CAN'T be worse than the double weekend I did back in January, where I did a full marathon on Saturday in Jackson, MS, then drove to Mobile, AL to run a half on Sunday. That was tough...I didn't know that Jackson was that hilly!

Anyway, our group met Saturday and ran for about 45 minutes...just enough to get us started. It was a lovely cool day after a summer of hot ones, and everyone enjoyed socializing a bit. As we parted ways with lots of "See you next week!", I realized that I will miss the next four Saturday training sessions, due to my rather unorthodox "training plan".

• September 15, US Air Force Half Marathon, Dayton, OH
• September 23, Quad Cities Half Marathon, Davenport, IA
• September 30, Ironman Augusta 70.3 (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run), Augusta, GA
• October 7, Chicago Marathon (figure it out)

Thankfully, there are additional group training opportunities at a track on Wednesday nights, where we will do some speedwork. Since I am pretty slow, this will be a good thing. I just hope there's beer afterwards!