The Rest Of The Story

The little girl in this picture is the youngster who nearly beat Bob (and did beat me) across the finish line. She was tough. We were also beaten by a 70 year old woman, a one legged man who goes by the name of skipper, every member of the Tampa boys choir and a tortoise. I confirm Bob's version of the Reindeer Run and fully support the notion that consistent practice and interval training are the keys to successfully completing these runs.

In a period of a little less than eight months both Bob and I went from nearly comatose in our TV chairs to completing the 2007 Gasparilla in under 35 minutes. We almost immediately set a goal of doing the 2008 Gasparilla in under 30 minutes. Then we slipped into contentment.

We walk 5 miles almost every day of the week, but we have not really pushed ourselves. We used the Reindeer Run as a gauge to see how close we could come to our sub 30 minute goal for the upcoming Gasparilla. As you can see from Bob's story, we have work to do and we are going to need your support to be successful. Please ask us frequently how we are doing in preparation and specifically how we are doing with the time trials.

I had a good time participating in the 2007 Reindeer Run and obviously Bob did too. I want the Gasparilla to be more than fun for us though in 2008. I would love to meet that under 30 goal we set nearly a year ago and now have two months to conquer. Can we do it? Do we have it in us? What are your thoughts?

Later..................