Hello!   I'm pretty happy with my first half even though I really struggled in the last three miles and didn't make the time I wanted. But I finished and it was a great experience! The weather was great and it was good to see fellow runners before and after.    Doing the Reindeer Run 5k this weekend. How about you?  Patricia

Hello!   I am new to the group but am a long time runner (though a beginner at long distance running--the OUC half this Saturday will be my first).    Has anyone seen the new course map for the race? It's radically different from last year's. It's sort of a gigantic loop with one long, straight stretch that goes on for about two miles.    I think the weather will be on the warm side but after training all summer in the extreme heat, I'm not complaining!    Good luck to everyone running the race!   Patricia    

The goal was set for the Corporate 5k next April.  I said that I will run a 5k in under 22 minutes.  My first is that I'm going to run a 5k in under 24 minutes and shatter Victor to pieces.  Then I'm going to run a 5k in under 22 minutes something that Silvio has never done.  Finally, I am going for ultimate enchilada and break 20 minutes for a 5k.  Sub20

  Ok, after I stopped rolling around on the ground in sheer laughter, I had to think about this.   First we have Arnold in the pic then Ronald McDonald.  I'm talking about our buddy, Adam.  Adam is going to do a 22 min 5k???? Ok, here's the wager.  If Adam is going to do a 5k in 22 then Silvio and I are going to do it with him or give up something.  It's a wager so someone has to lose and someone win. And there has to be a goal.  So what is it?  The OUC 5k? Perhaps it is something like this.  If Adam can run a 22 min 5k at the OUC 5k, he gets 2 cases of Michelob Ultra Amber (that's new and very good, I know).  Maybe this is a little aggressive and we need to look further out.  What do you think?  Maybe it's this.  If Adam beats Silvio or I in the average mile/min when we run the OUC half and he runs the OUC 5k, he wins and gets the 2 cases. That should be a walk in the park.  What about that? 

Well Adam is putting his running shoes where his mouth is (YUCK). After a brief recovery from a recent minor procedure, he vows to shatter a 22min 5K at an upcoming event!!! Can he do it gang?!?  Will he DO IT?!?!  Will we give him support?!??! Will someone please lend him a bicycle 'cause that's the only way I see him breaking that mark!!!