I am not participating in the Blues Marathon, nor am I, at this time planning on Chicago '08. (Ask me again next January)
At any rate, I do not want to lose what conditioning I have achieved and have been managing to do some distance walking on Saturday -- 10 miles this past Sat.
At the Halloween party a few folks mentioned they were not participating in the Blues Marathon but were going through "withdrawal" of sorts from the group. So I'd like to suggest for those of us to want to continue to train as a group on Saturdays that we could create a Marathon Maintenence club. We could create an email list of those interested and someone each Saturday would take the responsibility of deciding on a route (6-10 miles), meeting place, and time and emailing that route to the group. That's it! The rest is up to the participant -- to bring their own hydration and show up at the appointed hour. The organizer is only responsible for sending out the route to the email list.
This gives anyone who is interested an opportunity on Sat. (or even Sunday afternoon if the organizer so chooses) to meet with others, visit, get some exercise and maybe we could even plan on breakfast someplace after the run.
eMail me if you're interested, and I'll create the email list and solicit "organizers" for each weekend. (Kayra, we'll even come to Hazelhurst if you want to set up a route down there!)
I will be out of town the next four weekends or I would volunteer for this Saturday. But I will handle trying to get this somewhat organized and creating and distributing the email list.
Remember, the only thing the organizer for that weekend would do is determine the route, start time and place and email the distribution to see who's interested in joining in for that day. Anyone who comes is responsible for their own hydration and should bring a copy of the route that was emailed to everyone.
I hope this makes sense. Bottom line, if you're interested email me and we'll go from there.
(cellsa1@bellsouth.net) (Note: that is the numeral one before the @ symbol in my email address).
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You know you don't have to actually be training for anything to stay with Mark's group. He, Robin, and Matt do all the work (the route, the water/gatorade, the snacks and the motivation) for a very small amount of money and you get to see all of us great marathoners and friends plus make some great new friends!
I'm not sure it is fair to them to start a new group using the blog forum they provided for us.
Just a thought.
Jana
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