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28 April 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Virtual Races

GoGazella Virtual Marathon Relay To enter this event, you form a relay team that is 2-6 members.  Then between now and June 30 (2012) you and the team members enter races in the following distances: 5k, 10k, 15k, 10mi, 13.1mi and 26.2mi. Once your team has raced a grand total of 52 miles in the time, [...]

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25 February 2012 ~ 24 Comments

Race Report: The Color Run

Let’s just preface this by saying: I don’t like being dirty. Yard work sucks because you have to dig in the dirt. Getting sweaty and smelly is probably my least favorite part of running. The idea of doing a mud run kind of freaks me out because I’d be so filthy. So the mere fact [...]

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22 January 2012 ~ 6 Comments

Chefs for Kids 5K

Saturday morning I woke to the sound of the winds howling outside my house. I dragged myself out of bed and went downstairs to let Jade The Boxer outside to take care of her morning business.  Rain was sprinkling.  Las Vegas was under a high wind warning, with sustained gusts of 25-40 MPH, bursts up [...]

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17 December 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Race Report: Come Run With Santa 5K

This morning I got up and took myself out into the cold cold world to run a holiday themed 5K. Yeah… a race that was only 36 degrees at the start, that’s cold for my desert-dwelling blood! Plus, the race started at 7 AM. Races in Vegas have to start that early in the warm/hot [...]

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05 December 2011 ~ 23 Comments

Team Challenge Las Vegas – Race Day 2011

We met as a team at 4:00 PM on race day inside the Mandalay Bay near the food court and had to navigate the crowd to get to the start line by 4:20 PM.  The media wanted shots of the local team at the start line hooting and hollering. On our way through the crowds [...]

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02 December 2011 ~ 2 Comments

#RnRLV Expo 2011

Today I went to the expo for the Zappos Rock and Roll Las Vegas Marathon & Half Marathon. (Yeah, I went with the full name… I think I got it all in the right order. It’s a mouthful!) I picked up Stephanie from Run for Fun and her husband at their hotel and took them [...]

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