Race Schedule

Here are some great races happening in 2009.

• Saturday, March 21 - Park Ridge 5K (Stafford, VA)
• Saturday, March 21 - National Marathon & Half Marathon
• Saturday, April 18- Charlottesville Marathon & Half Marathon
• Sunday, May 17 - Marine Corps Historic Half (Fredericksburg, VA)
• Sunday, September 6 - Virginia Beach Rock N Roll Half Marathon
• Saturday, October 10 - Baltimore Marathon & Half Marathon
• Sunday, October 25 - Marine Corps Marathon (Washington, DC)
• Saturday, November 14 - Richmond Marathon & Half Marathon

This isn't an exhautive list, but these seem to be the most popular races amongst the Horizons Runners, and most are on Saturdays.

Run Saturday, January 3rd

Dave is coordinating a trail run for us for this Saturday, 1/3/09. It will be approx. 4 miles at the Prince William Forest Park. We will meet at 7:30 a.m. at the 610 commuter lot that is behind Liberty Lanes to carpool to the park. We'll meet near the Mine Rd. entrance. Let me know if you plan on attending so we don't miss anyone.

Park Ridge 5K - March 21, 2009

Okay, I know we haven't even closed the books on 2008, but looking ahead to 2009, I'm excited to see that Park Ridge will once again be holding a 5K. (http://www.geocities.com/parkridge5k/). Most of us run for distance more than speed, so the 5K isn't what we live for, but....this has become a great bragging rights run. How great is it to say, "I placed 2nd in my age group"? Not ever going to happen for me in the Marine Corps Marathon, but with the Park Ridge 5K, I have hope of taking home a trophy. So, mark your calenders for Saturday, March 21, 2009.

Scheduled Run - Saturday 12/13 @ 8:30 a.m.

Join us at Rodney Thompson Middle School this Saturday at 8:30 a.m. for a 4 mile'ish run through Augustine. Hope you can join us. Email me for more information/questions at karenegyud@gmail.com.

Blessings,
Karen

New Running Gear

Saw this in ESPN, The Magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM

As ESPN said, "At last, a way for joggers to work out in the fresh air. Other than, y'know, jogging."

LOL!

Update

It's been a crazy fall for running. HR had it's first "Turkey Trot" on Thanksgiving. I'm hoping that can be a tradition - unfortunately, I'm usually not in town, so someone else will have to carry the torch next year. It was pretty cold, but it made me feel a lot better about the extra pie I ate later in the day :)

I'm thankful the "race season" is over - although I know the Blue Gray Half Marathon is coming up on the 14th. I'd love to run it but I'm trying to limit races to Saturdays (Marine Corps will be an exception:). After the Richmond Marathon, I thought I would want to take off for about a month, but within a week, I was itching to get back out. It is nice to be able to run shorter runs though - 7 miles feels great!

I'm planning on a run 2 weeks from now - assuming nothing changes between now and then, we'll do a run on December 13th - probably around 8 a.m. and probably for about 4 miles.

Blessings,
Karen

Run - Saturday, Oct. 18th

Horizons Runners will have a run this Saturday, Oct. 18th at 7 a.m. We will meet at Rodney Thompson Middle School and the plan is to run 4 miles. Please let me know if you plan to join us - karenegyud@aol.com.

Congrats to Rich on his 1st Half Marathon finish in the Baltimore Running Festival last weekend and to Deb as well - although it was not her first 1/2 :).

On Saturday, I was wishing I had just run the 1/2. I did the full and I felt awful during the last 10 miles or so, but I did improve on last year's marathon time by almost 10 minutes, so I shouldn't complain...but I was hoping for better. As anyone who has done a race knows, the thing you race against the most is your past accomplishments. The Baltimore Marathon has a lot more hills than Marine Corps. I escaped injury free outside of a couple blisters on my toes, but that's normal for me. I will try and redeem my time by running the Richmond Marathon next month. Crazy - yes.

Here are some pictures :) (I'm the one checking my watch to make sure it's over!)