kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2011 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 113)

Roll was for Blazeman Foundation (I've raised just over $20K for them in the past 4 years).

If I have it in me, I'll do a round off at IMFL.

Wanna come babysit tonight, tomorrow night, all day sat and sun?  You can make pink strawberry cupackes with my girls while wering princess outfits and send them to scott in a frilly box.

Headed to gym for lunch run, annoyed that i will be on treadmill on a beautiful day.

So was wondering, how did the roll get started.  Was it Blazeman's finish and his thing for people to remember him and his disease by?  Is there a story behind the roll?

I still tear up when I was the IM he did . . . Great job on the fundraising Kelly!

When Jon Blais did Kona he rolled across the finish line.  This is the way people remember him and ALS.

I saw an interview with him and he said something like: All my doctors have told me not to do IM, but i will finish if I have to roll accross the line (or something to that affect), and did:

Competing in triathlons for 20 years, Jon always wanted to compete in an Ironman - especially in Hawaii. On October 15, 2005, only 5 months after being diagnosed, Jon became the only individual with ALS to complete an Ironman, finishing in 16:28:56. He crossed the finish line by log-rolling over it, and since then, the "log roll" has been graciously performed by countless athletes as a symbol of hope, and more importantly, as a means of raising awareness for ALS... in his honor at the 2006 Ironman... Breen, the "Crazy Irishman", log-rolled over that line and ran to Jon's side.

 http://www.waronals.com/about_jon.php.  VERY insparational guy

On one of his runs he ordered a pizza, a whole cheesecake and something to drink and he carried it all and ate while he ran.  Iron stomach!  His stories are super funny, there is one in "Run" with his Dad that just had me cracking up, as they almost got into a wrestling match over a cup of coffee . . . I won't ruin the story

On FB he just got a new running partner . . . there's a pic

bribe her with chocolate, works for women ages 2-100. 

M&Ms ready to go.

We haven't really figured out what drives this one.  Reagan is food and posession driven.  Threats and rewards that involve food, purses, shoes, soccer work great.  Haven't figured it out with the little one yet.  Sure would help if I could.

Ha, ha, no wonder she promised you a new bike if you do it . . . . Good Luck!

Ran in the foothills last night for the second time. First time solo and I got a little turned around so my route sucked

Planning on changing out my cassette tonight when I get home from work. Going to pre-ride the ElephantMan course on Sunday so I REALLY need the gearing for the hills. I'll take a short spin tonight to test it out and make sure everything works, too. 

OK, its in my training log, but last nights first 2 miles was total torture . . . about 90 degrees & 70% humidity!  I lasted just less than 2 miles and head in to the treadmill, first time in months.

20 miles tomorrow ---- NEW longest distance ever!!!

So need to spend a little time tonight determining how much nutrition I will need to bring with me.  I have been taking sips of the gel from the flask every 20 minutes (seems to work, but its not a full gel serving), but at over 4 hours tomorrow trying to figure out how to carry everything.  I can carry 1 gels flask on my belt, but then need to carry the gatorade endurance and endurolytes which take up the other little zip up bags.  I guess I could carry some single serving gels in my shorts.  I don't really like to carry things in my hands, but I guess if I had to I could carry at second gel flask and toss at some point.

My group will have 8 aid stations, but I usually just grab water at those.

Any thoughts?

Other question on long run tomorrow . . .

In both the marathons I have in the next 2 months, they offer gatorade and cliff shots.  Cliff shots are not my favorite and seemed to irritate my stomach so far.  There is alot more sugar, potassium and sodium than hammer (don't know if that is the difference).  Would you try to continue to work with your body to use the cliff shots since that is what will be on the course?  Or stay with what your body likes and knows.

At least for the Chicago marathon the galloway group will be set up somewhere on the course for people to pick up supplements (gels, blocks, etc).  At least the first marathon said that was ok to do.

We were actually hoping for that tropical storm to come here.  NEED RAIN!!!

BTW I'm interested in the replies of anyone who has run 20+ miles to the fueling post.