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May 22, 2006
Initiation
On Saturday night April's sister Holly arrived in Arizona.
She will be staying with us for the rest of the summer, working in Tucson and joining us on our crazy adventures. To start off, our first adventure to welcome her to Tucson was to go for a Sunday morning run. A little after 7:00AM yesterday, our friend Courtney, April, Holly, Morgan and I loaded up the car and headed to the top of Mt. Lemmon. We parked past the town of Summerhaven at the Marshal Gulch trailhead and planned out our run. It went like this, I said "Hey April, rather than take the shorter loop we had talked about I think we should run to the summit! I'm feeling psyched." She said, "Yeah that sounds cool. Holly can walk if she can't run it all." ha ha.
In the end Holly did awesome! I was surprised. I thought she would have been way behind but she kept with us for most of the run. We all had a blast and rewarded ourselves with some fresh fudge, ice cream and a big steak dinner.
While running we had a conversation about doing the Imogene run in Colorado this September. It is a crazy 17.1 mile run between Ouray and Telluride. We are currently discussing if we can train enough between now and then (while still climbing a lot) and do the race. Stay tuned...
Posted by Paul at May 22, 2006 08:32 AM
Comments
Hey guys..to answer your question, you should have no problem. I have a marathon training schedule that is 18 weeks, that I used for my marathon and a half training..Granted you aren't going the full 26.2 miles so I don't think the full 18 will be required... You hit 18 miles in the training around week 11. Here is the website I use http://www.fleetfeetstl.com/Training_Plans.htm
Happy Running ;)
Cara
Posted by: Cara at May 26, 2006 01:57 PM