Filed under: NBR Goings On, Races | Tags: charity, fun, Rochester Marathon, running, volunteer, volunteering
Let’s Volunteer as a team for the NYC Half Marathon!
It’s gonna be fun, we’ll get to mix crazy quantities of Gatorade, maybe don a poncho, and cheer on thousands of runners (and a couple dozen of our own!) in one of the biggest races of the year!
Date: Sunday, March 21st – 5:00am
Where: Central Park, Fluid Station #3 (West Drive @ 86th St.)
Sign Up: Do NOT register through NYRR’s volunteer site.
You MUST email us and/or put your name on our volunteer spreadsheet. We’ll be sending a final list to NYRR a couple of days prior.
The volunteers do NOT have to be runners– so drag your significant other, sibling, parent, or unsuspecting friend and add them to the list!
PLEASE NOTE!
This is for TEAM VOLUNTEERING and will NOT count towards 9+1 requirements. Team Volunteering allows our team the opportunity to earn 2 or more spots in this year’s NYC Marathon for our members who (1) didn’t get in and are rarin’ to go and/or (2) have circumstances that would have prevented them from being able to qualify (previous injuries, extensive travel, etc.). It is an AWESOME opportunity that is extended only to clubs. Our team must volunteer at least 10 members at TWO races between now and September 30th.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Aja
Things I have learned from last weekend’s marathon:
#1 As a runner, thinking about running 8 miles is not mentally excruciating. Thinking about running 8 miles after you have already run 18 miles is apparently worthy of a short, 10-second-sob-while-running-fest. I would not recommend it, as crying while running makes it extremely hard to do either.
#2 I think two PowerBar energy gels while marathoning is my limit. Three makes me feel like I’ve had one too many pieces of cheesecake.
#3 I may have the ability to run while sleeping. I do not remember mile 23 at all. Like no recollection whatsoever. I did however feel surprisingly well-rested at the end of this particular marathon. Once I figure out how to hone this skill, I will be attempting to bottle, package, and sell it to all of you.
#4 A trophy is a trophy and second place is not the first loser when trophies are involved. Nevermind that there were only 18 people in my age group.
#5 Write your name on your race jersey. I did not do this. Alternately, see if you can have a catchy race number. I lucked out with 89, which people seemed to enjoy yelling even after I had already passed them.
All in all, the race went well: perfect weather, flat route, excellent volunteers, not to mention it was so small that I won second place in my age group and cut 13 minutes off my marathon time from May! Unfortunately, no rest for the weary: up next is Nike Women on October 18th!
2 down, 28 to go!
Lauren 
Filed under: Thirty by Thirty | Tags: goal setting, marathon, New Jersey Marathon, Nike Women's Marathon, Philadelphia Marathon, Rochester Marathon
A few months ago, in the tradition of the type-A persona that us runners tend to be, I decided that I needed a running goal. Earlier that week, I had decided to run my first marathon upon the urging of a few runner friends. But, that day (ironically, in the shower after a particularly long run) I thought “A lot of people run marathons — how am I any different?”. So I thought I would try to trump myself. Create a goal so lofty, yet still possible, that I would seriously have to push myself extremely hard to achieve it…
I am going to run 30 marathons by the time I turn 30.
Keep in mind, when I set this goal, I hadn’t even run one marathon. Ever. I’d run two half marathons, a 10k, and a 5k. That’s it. I hadn’t ever logged a distance longer than 13.1 miles at one time. But in the shower that morning, I decided that I could push myself to race 26.2 miles 30 times in the next 6.5 years. That averages 5 marathons a year. Some people do one marathon in their lifetime and I’m trying to do 5 a year for the next SIX years.
I did set some rules for this, so that I can stay motivated and so that in six years, I can say that I did what I set out to do. So here they are:
1. I must complete 30 marathons by the time I am 30 years old. Should I walk, run, crawl, crutch to the finish line, I must finish.
2. I will run the 30th marathon on my 30th birthday: May 30th, 2015 (which happens to be a Saturday and I’m pretty sure, a sign from the running gods that this is something that I am meant to do).
3. If I complete an Ironman, the marathon run at the end of the Ironman can count (hey, 26.2 miles is 26.2 miles, no matter how you slice and dice. But seriously, if I have time to train for one of those while also completing 4 marathons in that year then I’m out of my mind).
So thirty by thirty is my new goal. So far I’ve completed one (New Jersey) and am signed up for two more in the fall (Rochester on September 13 and Nike Women in San Francisco on October 18th…I’m also contemplating Philly on November 22 but we’ll see how the first two go). I hope in 6 years I’ll be able to write a blog entry that says I am out of my mind, but I completed my 30th marathon.
1 down, 29 to go.
Lauren
