Hello Beginner-runners,
I love our group!!! I wake up on Thursday mornings and think “Yay! It’s beginner running day!!”. I’m serious about that. We are really starting to settle into a routine which is fabulous and I love to see how committed you are to your running. People are meeting up outside of our scheduled time when they have meetings or appointments – it’s perfect! This could be the best beginner group yet (and no, I don’t say that every year). Ladies, I hope you’ve taken a moment to think about what you’ve already accomplished. Last week we ran for 28 minutes with 2 x 4 minute intervals and 4 x 5 minute intervals. That’s huge! 28 minutes is a lot of running. It’s a good idea to think back to week one from time to time. We struggled to jog for 60 seconds. This week we also got a taste of street running. It’s nice to run in the park or on the canal, but now we’re running so far that we’ve “outgrown” Regents Park. Throughout the program, we’ll try to run as much as possible in the parks, along the river, along the canals but we always have to run the streets to get to those places. So it’s great to start practicing.
Next Thursday, we’re doing our first destination run to Big Ben. For those of you will not be there
on Thursday, this is a map of our route. We’ll walk from Starbucks over to Lisson Grove then start heading south towards Hyde Park. We’ll do 5, 6, and 7 minute intervals but it won’t exactly work that precisely. With all the street crossings our intervals will be more broken up than that. Basically, the run to Big Ben should feel easier than our run last week. I’m serious about that. We’re going further, but we’ll have lots of little mini-breaks at lights. At the finish, we’ll take a few group photos and hopefully we can find a way to give everyone access to those photos. I’m not sure how to do that???? After the run, most of the group will head back to SJW for coffee (unless someone knows of a larger coffee shop in that area – the only one I know is the Costa or Nero and it’s tiny). Big Ben.
Running Group T-shirts
Our running shirts are ready and each of us owe Chris Roberts a big hug!!!! She organized the printing of the shirts and thank goodness that Kelli Montanaro has an eye for design. She helped Chris with the t-shirt design. Chris and Kelli, thank you so much!!!! The shirts are black, short-sleeved, dri-fit, Nike shirts that have our new logo on the front and “Run Like a Girl” on the back. Orders are due by Friday, 19 October. To order a shirt, update our group’s Google doc – this link will open the file or paste this into your browser: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlPYNmKuXK9DdDJ2a3JzSERIY0E2YkVlWmVjRnpWMnc
The shirts are £24 which includes everything – the shirt, the printing, tax, shipping, etc. You can pay for the shirt by cash or check (made out to Paula Mitchell) – give payment to Kelli Montanaro or myself or you can mail payment to me at:
Paula Mitchell
Payment must be received by Friday, 19 October or your order will not be placed. If you haven’t had a chance to try on a sample shirt, the samples will be at the ASL Booster Store on Tuesday from 2:30-4:00. You could also leave an envelope at the ASL booster store with your payment. Please put it in an envelope and write your name and Running Group on the outside. DO NOT give your cash/cheque to the booster store workers or your funds could be comingled with store proceeds and your order will not be placed. If you want a shirt but are out-of-town or not able to send payment this week, let me know. We’ll sort something out. No worries!
Bratislava Race Registration:
The race director was hoping to have race registration open on 1 October but that date has slipped by. He is hoping the online registration will be active in the next few days. I’ll let you know when it’s working.
That’s it for this week. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you with your running.
xo, Paula