Dans Run 4/3/10

[wvrunner]

Thanks to everyone for a great run yesterday. We had an ideal day and everyone looked great. It's amazing to see the how well so many in the group are progressing. I am looking forward to seeing how well our local runners will do in their upcoming marathons and races.

I've been blessed enough to be around this area running scene for over 20 years now. We have had great training groups in the past and also some years in which you or one or two others were the training group, but it's great to see the "team" atmosphere we have now. It provides a huge source of motivation for me and I know it does for others.

With all that being said I can remember what a former training partner who left town due to a work situation told me. No matter what part of the country he has been in as a runner he has never had the kind of support, places to run or the natural beauty of the training runs as we do in our area. Thanks for a great day and good look to all.

[frojoe23]

It was a gorgeous day over there and a great run. I wanted to inform everybody that I am still alive and actually did get to sleep for about 20 minutes in the afternoon.

[Justin]

Sorry I couldn't make it fellows. I had a jam-packed day Saturday.

I agree though, it's been an awesome winter and early spring. Definitely the turning point for me has been running with the group on Saturday mornings. All of a sudden my times came down and I was running better once I started doing that. I know sometimes I am a training recluse, so it's tough for me to jump into a group, but I've felt great getting out there with you all. I'm looking forward to the spring races, and lets try to keep this thing rolling all summer.

[wvrunner]

Hang in there Jaron. The first few months of parenthood are very rewarding but also a lesson in sleep deprivation. I can assure you as many other Dads and Moms on this board can, it does get easier.

[flyinghighrunner]

That's a nice tough run....first time I ran it, missed over a quarter of the super bowl since it kicked my butt bad.

[ericjoe]

It was a great day Saturday. Thanks to Dennis for getting a group together for this. I really think the runners in our area have really come along this winter and hopefully we will see the payoff for all the hard work. I had a terrible run Thursday night, but after this Saturday run, I was feeling much better both mentally and physically.

[bevj]

It was great to see so many runners out for Saturdays run. It was a great loop to run, I was just having one of those days where I'm just feeling beat from the weeks training and wasn't feeling too frisky about pace. But I've had runs like that before so I'm not concerned. Hope to run this loop again sometime!