Exciting events I'm doing!

[Bekah]

Well just posting to see if others are doing these events as well - but I am really psyched. I've been working pretty hard on running and cycling.

April 5th - Iron Girl -- 5K, shooting for a time around 27 minutes

April 26th & 27th -- MS 150 Bike ride
-- Doing the 100 mile, century ride the first day
-- 50 miles back the next
-- We go from Cypress Gardens (Winter Haven) until Sea World (Orlando)

Anyone else sign up for any exciting events lately?

[Matt Vassallo]

that is awesome! work it!!!!!!!!!!!

[MianoSM]

Sounds pretty sweet, should be a blast from the looks of it. 9 minute mile pace?

I tried to get into the road biking for distance, but anything over 25-30 miles kills me. I stick to the sneakers pounding the pavement.

My next event is the Gunn Allen 5k. I hate to do it (because they are the only race that sends me crap every year to run it), but I like the course, and it's a convenient time. : )

Good luck out there - keep kicking ass!

[fresh&clean]

I have a ton of endurance usually play tennis for a couple hours then play basketball but running a 5k is just too much for me it just gets boring. I dont know about doing a bike ride Im sure that would be cake. Good luck with everything and remember athletic girls>all.

[Regina]

Good for you! I seriously cannot wait to get back to working out. I tell you though, you are brave for doing all of those events. I don't think I'd have the guts to do it unless I had a partner with me or something.

[Bekah]

Yeah I just sign up... pay the sign-up fee, and I'm "hooked" persay into actually doing it. I honestly don't know many people who run or enjoy doing 5K's, so I usually do it alone unless I can talk a friend or two into joining with me, but if it's a local race, I usually run into people I know on race day -- but with the biking... a friend of mine told me about the MS bike ride back in November, so I joined the team that he rides with "AWopASpicALimey" & the group is quite a bit older than me (well, in their 30's).. but they seem to be a really fun group.

[MianoSM]

Good deal! I know there's a couple of great bike clubs in St. Pete, I should really stop being lazy....

Do you use active.com or are you going through some other channel to find your events? The spaghetti 100 seems like a good time/one too....

[D-Roll]

Good deal!

[jdk]

Me and some of the guys I work with are thinking about doing this. 1 hour downtown Lakeland urban mountain bike race.. Anyone here interested?


http://www.swampclub.org/smf/index.php/topic,1860.0.html

[JennTypicalTFchic]

Bekah I am doing the IronGirl 5K as well.

[Aoshi]

Sounds pretty sweet, should be a blast from the looks of it. 9 minute mile pace?

I tried to get into the road biking for distance, but anything over 25-30 miles kills me. I stick to the sneakers pounding the pavement.

My next event is the Gunn Allen 5k. I hate to do it (because they are the only race that sends me crap every year to run it), but I like the course, and it's a convenient time. : )

Good luck out there - keep kicking ass!

that'd be a 8.44 minute pace actully, 5k is a 3.2 mile. Still though, decent pace for most people. I used to do them in 20 minutes...back when i was a 12 year old tank.

Anywho, have fun at those, im much too lazy to do anything outside running in my neighborhood, which im about to go do in 3 minutes.

[billybongthorton]

wow youre a fuckin beast bekkah in a good way lmao the only thing sepcial i got going on is next weekend me and a shitload of people are going down to the park by my house and have a little cash basket ball tourney we have 10 three man teams 100 bucks a team so if we win we stand to make some good cash

[MianoSM]

5k is a 3.1 miles.

Fixed. ; ) I round off quite a bit, its a bad habit that I can't kick. :dunno:

Other good lengths:

10k is 6.2 Miles

Half-Thon is 13.11 Miles

Marathon is 26.22 Miles

[Bekah]

Wow, I have a loooooooong way to go til I'm able to even finish a marathon.. geesh!

[MianoSM]

I did a 10k last month and it rocked my world. There are some odd races out there to increment your way as well, like a 15k and half thons, or even 10 milers.

I'd really like to do the Disney Marathon in 2008. If you are going to do one within a 6 month/12 month time span register as early as possible (like when you start training), they close up really fast most of the time.

[MianoSM]

How did those events go?

[jdk]

I finished 18th out of 31, not too bad considering it was my first race and I started at the back of the pack.

[MianoSM]

Not bad at all, nice finish! = )

[psifactor]

This thread is old but I would have so been down for the 5k runs. Let me know next time you are signing up for one.

June 1st is the Madeira Beach Sprint Triathlon if you are interested. http://www.madbeachtriathlon.com/

[MianoSM]

June 15
Father's Day 5K
John Chestnut Park, Palm Harbor

Here are some sites with good info:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/02/rundown-running-calendar/

http://www.getactivetampa.com/runningevents.html