A Run With Zen

Messlia & I met at 8:30am(Boston Store) to run the Water Fall Route(Brandy Wine, Blue Hen and Buttermilk Falls). I wasn't sure exactly how many miles we would run but I figured about 10 miles. We started towards Brandy wine first, the towpath wasn't to bad, the snow was packed down, same with Stanford & Brandy wine trails. We had a little bit of ice to deal with, but all in all a fun run.

The Brandywine Inn we ran into a few cute kids playing in the yard.

The Brandywine water crossing was a little dangerous, very icy. I'm secretly waiting for Melissa to fall in to the water....Heeee...

Blue Hen Falls

I spotted a really tall troll living behind ButterMilk Falls

Coffee & The Chocolate Factory

BRRRR...
I'm ready for Spring. I ran at the NAT Tues. 5 miles. Wed. I was unable to get my butt out of bed to run at 5am and the rest of the day was spent with the kids.
I used Thurs. evening for a make up day. I ran 2:17 (13.14 mile) to GOJO Plaza.
Friday evening was a Happy Days Trail Run with Vince & Brandon. We ran 1:11; I have 5:08 on the Garmin but Vince thought it was more like 6-7miles.
Sat 6:30am a trek through the snow covered towpath 49:26 (4.59 miles)
Sat 7:30am 1:57:53 (12:13 miles) We changed the route and ran the Shamrock 15K in reverse.

Sunday 8:30am 10 mile run. Start from Boston Store then run to Blue Hen Falls, Buttermilk Falls then down to Brandywine Falls. We will make up miles with an out & back on the Buckeye Trail North towards Jade.

Total of 45ish for the week.

Coffee & The Chocolate Factory: I was drinking coffee and watching Charlie & The Chocolate Factory while writing this blog.

Lovin The Hills Race Report

This will be easy....
I didn't go.....
Yes that right I was unable to go to KY for Lovin The Hills 50K. The sitter I had for the kids was sick and I didn't have a backup plan. I did think about driving down at 1:30am and running the race, but that thought only lasted a minute. I was bummed out all day Friday and Saturday. I ran with the Lock 29 VR TRAINING GROUP on Sat. All I thought about was running the hills.
I know I haven't been blogging lately but I've been busy with the kids, PURE FUEL ORGANIC ENERGY BARS & PLAYING WITH KNIVES & FIRE CATERING.

I've been working on a few new products for PURE FUEL. The first one is Black Forest Recovery Bar. This will be a post run, training, or workout bar. It has whey protein, chocolate & dried black cherries. It's really good!!!! We should have it in our product list by the end of February. The other product is our Western Reserve Trail Mix Bar. Bite size pieces of our bar (called Fuel Cells) laced with all the ingredients you would find in a trail mix: Sunflower seeds, Almonds, Dried Pineapple, Raisins, and carob chips. This one is also very good!!!

We add a few places to buy Pure Fuel; Kent Natural Foods (Downtown Kent), Human Potenal Labs (In the Valley Akron OH), Twinsburg Fitness Center (Twinsburg OH), Advanced Chiropractic & Wellness Center (Cuyahoga Falls OH)

Playing With Knives & Fire is doing well we have caterings booked into Oct. 2008. I'm working a new website for the company that should be up and running soon. We are alos working on booking more catering, cooking demo's & classes.

Still Recovering

I missed a window of opportunity to run. I felt great the day after the BT50K; I should have gone out for a run. The weather was perfect. Monday was good too, but my thought was focus on recovery. My body is feeling it today the plan was to get up at 4:30am and run 8-10 miles, but in Northeastern Ohio Winter Fashion, the alarm went off and it was to easy hit the snooze 6 or 7 times.
Plan-B Take the kids to the NAT run the track 5-6 miles. I'm also planning to run 3-4 miles tonight when Jen gets home it will be late but it's a better plan then Friday AM in the ice storm.
Plan-C I ended up running 14 miles. When Jen got home I took off and ran to GOJO Plaza (Downtown Akron).

Tuesday Jan 29 Birthday Run

Jen got home at a decent time for me to head out on a short run. Tuesday was my Birthday so I told Jen for the kids sake get a small cake. If it wasn't for the kids I wouldn't even have a cake.
To celebrate we will be going to see the Blue Men Group March 22.

I ran my Silver Lake loop. It was a great night to run I wish I had more time to run. Temp. 50 a little windy, no rain (Yet).
I have a new 205 Garmin so I can give the stats.
6.92 miles
avg. 8.57 min./mile (Best 5:44 min./mile)
1:01:52

BT 50K 2008

I'm fueled ready to go. I won't go as far as to say I trained my best for this race. I had some weeks in my training I didn't give my all. I am ready to run a 50K. I'm wearing my new PURE FUEL TECH T-SHIRT (You can buy one at PURE FUEL). Yes I'm wearing my Sherpa pack equipped with 2 fuel bottles, two packs for PURE FUEL BARS & Gels. and one for my empty packaging. Great weather not to cold, no wind, no snow. The ground was really hard. Really hard on my legs after awhile. I was out to run & have fun....Yelling at Bob Clark & Lindsy..."I'm going to catch up to you guy!!" She's not called E-Speed for nothing...I was razzing Elizabeth to catch up to me AND she did!!! E-Speed & her friend pasted me and kept on going. (I know I shouldn't give her my last PURE FUEL ENERGY BAR) Great job ladies!!!

Other runners I need to congratulate:

Wyatt Hornsby 1st. Place

Dave Peterman

Nick Billock

Greg Dykes

Bob Clark & his trusty side-kick Lindsey (Guys nice super hero costumes)

CHEF BILL BAILEY

At 50K

(#41...Jan. 29th I'll be 41)
I need to check the official results, but my Garmin has 5:59:44.

THANK YOU

TANYA

Now I need to get ready for Lovin The Hills KY 50K Feb. 16, 2008

SUNDAY AM COLD ASS RUN

BRRRRR.......
Brett, Melissa & I had an original plan to run Happy Days at 7:30am, 14 miles. VR message board had a group running the Gorge Trail. We changed our plans and met the group at the Gorge. Since I live near by I ran from home....BRRRR!!!! The temperature was 4 degrees with a -12 windchill. I made it to the parking lot in 18 minutes (including running Glen's Trail). Lindsay & Bob Clark were there waiting on the group. I warmed up in Lindsay's car while we waited. Stephen, Brett & Ryan braved the bone chilling cold.

A LIST OF NO SHOWS:
VINCE RUCCI
JAMIE CARR
COACH GREG
MELISSA

Ryan drove from City of Willoughby to run with us WHAT DEDICATION!!!
Lindsay, Stephen & Bob lead the pack through the Gorge Trail, and once we got to the Highbridge Trail, Brett, Ryan & I slowed down to a 9.5 to 10.5 min./mile. Bob Clark is one runner to learn from. He has a consistent pace the doesn't change. I can keep up with him for about an hour or so. I just met Ryan today for the first time. He jumped back into running in November, he's thinking about running Bull Run this year.
We ran the gorge trail, Highbridge/Signal Tree Trail and the Glen's.
I head home from there, Brett & Ryan headed back to run 6 miles on Highbridge Trail.
Mileage today 14 miles.