April Showers bring May Flowers

Along with the beautiful flowers in May, April showers will most likely also give you a lot of weeds to pull, grass to cut, and other time consuming activities that will invade your running space this coming summer. Don't let these things stop your running progress. You will just need to plan your workouts ahead of time. Don't forget that we meet each Saturday morning...early...for our long runs (I doubt your neighbor wants you to start your mowing at 7 am).

We are meeting as usual, this Tuesday evening at 7 pm in the Centreville High School parking lot. If the track is available, we will do a workout there. If there is an event, we will head to Union Mill for a 3-5 mile run.

Saturday we are running at Burke starting at 7 am or 8 am. The week following, May 3rd, we will be taking a running field trip either to Manassas Battlefield or Bull Run Trail (please let me know your preference).

Here is something fun:

Hi all,

After our Burke run this Saturday, some of us were discussing the possibility of a bike ride on Memorial Day, which is Monday, May 26th this year. We talked about riding from Route 28 to Leesburg, or even to Purcellville. As there seemed to be some enthusiasm for the idea, we wanted to get a sense of what everyone thinks and who might be interested. Here are some of the possibilities we discussed:

-Bike to Leesburg and back (about 21 miles) with a Starbucks stop in Leesburg.

-Go all the way to Purcellville and stop for coffee and/or a snack there and return - a trip of about 40 miles.

-Some combination: i.e; pick your destination and the group will split by who wants to do what.

-Recruit some volunteers to pick up people at Purcellville in their cars for those only wanting to go 20 miles.
(Mary I see your name all over this one). However, this is obviously a bit logistically challenging.

-Bike somewhere else, although I don't know where that would be.

Dianne and I will coordinate this, but we want your feedback.

A few things to consider: The Leesburg trip is about 2 hours with the coffee stop. Purcellville would probably be about 4 hours, and a pretty demanding ride for many, and it could be warm.

Please send your thoughts to either Dianne or myself, or everybody if you like.

Our other rides have been a lot of fun, so hopefully we can get a good group for this.

Everyone have a good week, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Roger

Feel free to email me as well and I will forward your opinions to Roger.


Don't forget to sign up for the Marine Corp Marathon on April 30th! Click here for a direct link. This race does sell out! So if it is your dream to run this famous event, make sure you sign up this Wednesday. I will be starting the training program for this race as well as Richmond, in the beginning of July.

Now go and Run!

Heather