Weekend Running

Hello Everyone,

Looks like it will be a great weekend for running! I'm heading out tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. for a 10 miler. Please let me know if you are interested in joining me. I will be running an easy pace (9-9:30)

Callaway Gardens Marathon is on Sunday and Roman and myself are going. Joe Fejes is heading to Huntsville, Alabama for Mountain Mist 50K. Good Luck Joe!

If you want someone to run with, please respond under comments of this post.

Happy Running!

Thursday Night Runs

From Jim Summerlin:

The Thursday night group runs have started again. We meet at the tennis/pool parking lot near the Hamilton Mill front entrance at 7:15 PM. It's a 7-mile loop and we generally have several different paces. Mostly residential roads/sidewalks with some good hill climbs. The regulars include: Ryan, Simon, Justin, Alex, Wendell and Jim. It's a great alternative if you missed your morning run. Everyone is welcome to join us.

This is the route.

Museum of Aviation Recap and Weekend Running

Hello Everyone! Hope you had a great weekend!

Museum of Aviation Marathon was a lot of fun. Ami Roach AND Jim Summerlin had marathon PRs! Ami finished in 3:31 with a 4th Overall Female finish and 1st in her Age Group and Jim finished in 3:45. Roman S. and Wayne Downey ran together and finished in 3:55. I finished in 3:42 and got the Masters award. Here is a photo of Ami and Jim:

Congratulations Jim and Ami!!!

On Saturday, Dena and I are planning a 20 miler, start time 7 a.m. at Little Mulberry Park. Please comment below if you plan on coming.

If you have other running plans, comment below or email me and I will post them on our blog.

Happy Running!

Beth

Chasing Ami

Please read this when you get a chance. I wrote it about Ami Roach.

Run it Fast

Across the Years 72 Hour Race Report by Joe

If you get a chance, I highly recommend that you read Joe Fejes's race report from Across the Years 72 Hour. Click here for the report.

Also, Joe was in a Running Times article about his win at Across the Years. Click here for the article.

Enjoy!

BFF Time on the Trails

2011 ended with a challenging 100 mile race, Ancient Oaks 100, and after some time off and the New Year, I decided to get back to the basics of why I love to run. As much as I enjoy the challenge of finishing a race with a time goal in mind, I needed to take a step back from that and focus on why I really run.

Fat Ass 50k is a GUTS race that is has been a tradition for me since 2009. All week, I was excited to travel with Dena Cyr to Sweetwater Creek Park in Lithia Springs, GA, see all of my GUTS friends, and enjoy some time on the trails.

Dena and I met the summer of 2004. We both joined the newly formed, Hamilton Mill Road Runners club (that I now am the director of). People come and go in running clubs either due to pregnancy, moving, or changing athletic goals. Dena and I are the original club members and have shared many miles together throughout the years. I have so many fond memories of our runs.

We became good friends outside of our runs and our kids essentially grew up together. In fact, our sons are only 4 months apart in age. Grant has been friends with Parker longer than any other friend. We have been to parties together, out of town together, and lunch together throughout the duration of our friendship. Our friendship expanded far beyond just running into a deep caring for one another.

Because life can get busy and we may not speak to eachother for a few weeks at times, we always know that if I needed something or if she needed something, we would be there for one another in a heartbeat. I don’t have a ton of friends in my life that I know will truly be there for me.

Dena and I were so looking forward to BFF time; not only on the car ride there and back, but hopefully also on the trails. In a long race like this, we always have the understanding that it’s not required that we stay together, but on this day, it just worked out perfectly that we were wanting to stay together.

What can be better than over 7 hours in the woods with your BFF? I would get so caught up in our conversations that at times, I would forget to run again after walking a difficult section. We talked about everything: training, kids, husbands, other running friend’s successes, Christmas, and anything else that came up in the moment. On the 4th loop, I suddenly lost my balance while climbing one of the boulders (yah, I need to work on that, lol) and Dena caught me! We were a team out there all day-even when the rain came down hard on the 5th loop and we yelled, “HTFU!” and “Who else runs 34 miles on trails in the torrential rain!”.

On the way home from the race, we literally found a Taco Bell right off the interstate. This made the end of our day just perfect!

“Dena, why does this burrito taste so dang good?”

“I don’t know I should have gotten another one”.

“I know we should have gotten two!”

We laughed remembering other times that we devoured Taco Bell food after races and how we would never eat Taco Bell unless it was after a race.

Another Fat Ass in the books and more running fun in the future with Dena and my other running buddies. 2012 is going to be a good year and I’m so grateful to have friends like Dena in my life. A run like this makes you remember what’s important in life and I’m thankful for this reminder.

Weekend Running

Hello Everyone, Welcome to our new blog. We still have a lot of work to do on it but please stay tuned.

This weekend is the Museum of Aviation Marathon and we have a group heading there on Saturday: Jim Summerlin, Ami Roach, possibly Joe Fejes, Roman S. and possibly myself.

Please email me your running plans and I can post them on the blog: beth262@bellsouth.net

Dena Cyr and I ran the Fat Ass 50k (plus 3 or 4 miles-the course was a little off) and had a great time, even with all the mud and rain. Fat Ass 50k is a trail 50K at Sweetwater Creek Park in Lithia Springs that GUTS puts on every year. Here is our pre-race photo:

I'm excited about our new blog! Please email me if you have any suggestions or would like to help Rahn and myself with it!

Happy Running!
Beth

Welcome to HMRR

Hello Runners!
Welcome to our new club blog. We're busy updating the site, but it might take a while because to tell the truth, we're probably out running while the weather is nice instead of sitting in front of the computer.