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JUST HOW MUDDY WAS THE MUDDY BUDDY??

Stay tuned to later this week to find out!!!  And your eyes are not deceiving you, those gals are dressed up like, uh….I’m not sure.  This was a costume race, and I think that’s lil’ Bo Peep in front of the ‘Bowsey twins’.   Kim K., Me, myself and I, and two of the tri chicks, Karrie and Leslie played in the mud this fun and chill filled day.  Glen and Doug provided photo support, with Doug getting kudos for that photo up there.

DECEMBER CALENDAR

PLEASE PAY YOUR OUTSTANDING DUES ASAP!!!  ANY ?’S CONTACT INGY OR VICTOR

	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
			1	2 CLUB MEETING at Pizza Factory RUN @ 6 PM PIZZA  @ 7:15PM	3	4	5 SRP @ 7:30 am
	6	7 TRACK @ 6PM	8	9 CLUB RUN 4 PM @ Henrys & 6:15 PM @ Pizza factory	10	11	12  7:30 AM Farmers market in old town
	13	14 TRACK @ 6PM	15	16 CLUB RUN 4 PM@ Henrys & 6:15 PM @ Pizza factory	17	18	19     7:30 AM at Dripping Springs..trail improvement/run
	20	21 TRACK @ 6PM	22	23 CLUB RUN  4PM@ Henrys & 6:15 PM @ Pizza factory	24	25	26 Farmers Market in old Town @ 7:30 AM
	27	28 TRACK @ 6PM	29	30 club run 4Pm@ Henry’s plus 6:15 @ pizza factory	31	1 Jan	2 SRP @ 7:30 AM

NOTE:  Jan. pizza night will be Wed.  JAN. 13th!!!!

Monday TRACK workouts: CHANGED FOR THE WINTER TO 6 PM, at Los Alamos Sports Park in Murietta

MANY FEMALE  CLUB MEMBERS RUNNING on WED.  AT 4 PM starting by Rodrigo’s restaurant located by   Henry’s market off Winchester!!!! We run partially on the bike trail and loop up and around Lake Haverston for 5 miles at about a 8:50 to 9 m/mile pace.

Wed night runs: 6:15 PM at Pizza factory

SRP= Santa Rosa Plateau

Track =Los Alamos sports park in Murietta

Henry’s = Henry’s Market at corner of Winchester and Nicholas

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Per INGY

PIZZA NITE for JANUARY:   WED JANUARY 13th

The Running Center is having a Nutrition Seminar at 6:30pm on Wednesday, January 6th, which happens to be our “pizza night”. Since many of our members are interested in the nutritional effect on their running, we’re moving pizza night to  Wednesday, January 13th. Anyone not interested in the seminar can still meet at Pizza Factory for their Wednesday run.

AT THE RUNNING CENTER:

SPEAKER: Deana Sicari-Rodgers, BS, CCN
NUTRI-FIT / Clinical Nutrition and Fitness
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
6:30 – 8:00 pm

Deana offers over 18 years experience in the field of chemistry-applied nutrition and over 22 years experience in personal training. She will be speaking on three important areas of the endurance athlete’s diet:

Overall nutrition, pre race, and during the race nutrition

THIS is our Pizza night and we can’t be two places at once…..Ingy, do you have any suggestions??

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MUDDY BUDDY NOW IN….Scan down to find the dirty pics, curtesy of Doug.

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DECEMBER MEETING:

1.  We can tell it’s December because every year at this time Ingy asks Santa Claus to bring the club a new president.  Ingy is sooo ready after 5 years to give up his   slot as leader of our rag tag pack.  Any volunteers??  I hear there’s some one named Victor out there on the side lines some where ..He better block his chimney  or Ingy in Sant’s clothing is gonna drop that title down the chimney on him on Christmas morning.  Now that’s the rumor but there’s this other rumor runnin’ ’round  wondering what Eric’s doing in his spare time.  Could he be a possibility??

2.  Ingy took a poll and everyone’s enjoying the timed runs by Eric (but hey, we need to drop our watches at the start) and Herman’s Hash runs and would like more of those next year.  Ingy encouraged  anybody who has a ‘runnng game’ they want to put on to step up with their ideas and put one on.

3.  Note the SRP Sat runs are at 07:30 now and that 19 Dec will be a Dripping Springs trail repair and trot up the mt.  effort. Bring pruning shears or tiny saws or if you’re really strong a gas powered chain saw.  (That last item was a joke by the way.)

4. Steve A. wants to get a group to start running at Dripping Springs (Aqua Tibia) every other weekend.

5. The book:  ” Born to Run” by Christopher McDougal….reports are that it is very good, and at the library.

6. Brian and Christine want to do more biking with others, but not speedy gonzales faster than a speeding bullet rides—they want to ride n chat, mt biking around Diamond valley lake at easy pace sounds good to them or road biking at non break neck speed.

7.There is an ALL COMERS track meet on 12 Dec, 9 Jan and possibly one on 23 Jan at Great Oak High School.  Per Ingy, one pays about $5. to do any or all events at the track and this can be loads of laughs for spectators and fun for both young and not so young participants.

8.  Ingy’s working on getting a discount price for April’s Ragnor Relay and sign up sheets going around.

9. Our end of year points party will be in Feb…everybody (do I really need to say this again…) GET YOUR POINTS TO BETH!!!

10.  and remember….all Ingy wants for Xmas is a new club pres., more club members,  and for the members to pay their dues : )

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GET UP, GET AROUND, GET DOWN and GET MUDDY!!!

THE MUDDY BUDDY RACE

Temecula’s first Muddy Buddy race was held at Veil Lake last Sunday, putting roughly 600 pairs of buddys through the fun filled 10 K  obstacle course.  Unlike the mud run, this course combines Mt. biking and Running skills and requires pairs of people to participate.

THE Redliner Participants:

Kim K,  me, myself and I, Agent Orange (my bike) and a hitch hiking frog on my bike seat post get ready to Rock .

Karrie Carlson and Leslie Delaney …. photoed after they Rolled.

The participants are put into age groups based on their combined ages.  The age groupings are further divided into all male, all female, or mixed teams.  In Kim’s and my case, we raced against teams of other females whose combined age was 96 or above.  I’m not saying that was the oldest age group they had …but, uh, yeah, it was.  So of course we named our team ” Team Forever Young”.

GETTIN’  READY TO BEGIN:

Because of the large number of participants, groups of people were set off in waves  at 6 minute intervals.  The race began at 8 AM but all we purely female teams over a certain combined age were in the last wave and didn’t hit the course til 8:45.  We were told at packet pick up at what time we could expect to start racing so this worked out very well.  Starting later meant the temperature had a chance to raise a welcome few extra degrees.  It was extremely nice to have Glen and Doug present for race support.  Because of them, we were able to wear warm up suits over our racing clothes until just a few minutes before the start. Given the cold temperature, staying snug was sure nice!  The cars were parked way too far away to be running extra  clothing back and forth.

GET SET:

During this race, one person rides the bike for roughly 1 mile while their partner runs the same distance.    The biker does not wait for their runner…they bike as fast as they can, drop the bike at the obstacle, do the obstacle, then take off running themselves.  When their runner arrives at that spot, the runner does the obstacle, locates their bike, then takes off biking as fast as they can.  I ended up biking 3 legs and running two while Kim ran 3 and biked two.  The bike legs are kept non technical in nature on dirt double track but in this case they did involve short sections of hills that most of the females had to walk their bikes up. The hilly sections tended to be 30 feet or so in length, then would ease out to an easier grade that most people could ride, before hitting another 30 foot steeper segment.  None of the segments Kim or I rode were so steep that we couldn’t ride up them, though at least 1 spot was so sandy that it had to be walked, and one down hill near the course’s end was so steep and so sandy that my bike’s rear tire slid down much of the hill and a female walking her bike in front of me fell down and she and her bike slid aways.  There were two of those 30 foot long steep segments that were steep enough that I was only riding about 4 MPH, which was just fast enough for me to weave in and out of the walkers and slowly putz my way past them.  Kim and I both passed other riders almost non stop through out the race and getting past these other riders presented some of the more challenging race moments. Keep in mind that some of those we passed were dressed up like pigs (labeled ‘hog wash’ on her back), cats, turtles, hares, vikings, santa clauses, speed bumps, and one pair simply wore formal looking gowns which must have been a joy to ride in. Eric would’ve  fit right in!

GOOOOO!!!!

OUR WAVE:    OFF and BIKING……the bikers are staged in front of the runners and get launched 90 seconds before their  running partners.

The Obstacles :

Number one was a low lying cargo net…since many people wore costume ‘attachments’ to their helmets, this presented some interesting challenges as people’s heads got caught in the netting.  The antlers on the helmet of the gal struggling under the net beside me preferred to go up through the netting rather than under it.  Some people had large attachments to their fronts and got to experience what it would be like to do this course if they were 10 months pregnant with triplets.

Two obstacles were climbing oriented with the best being about a 20 plus foot tall vertical climbing cargo net laid up against a bouncy inflatable slide.  Once you crested the net, you had an almost vertical slide down the other side.  It was a blast and gee, who put that pool of ice water at the base of the slide?!!!  As for those folks in the 10 months pregnant category,  ever tried to climb something when you can’t get your body closer than 18 inches to it? Not easy for them  but hilarious for us to watch!

Another was simply a balance beam one traversed.  Some what less simple on wobbly tired legs!

Of course the most famous obstacle is the mud pit….on this day I think a few ice burgs may have been floating around it too.  That’s me clear over on the far side, blocking your view of Kim. People had a blast at the pit, and it wasn’t uncommon to see mud slung between partners or partners dunking each other in the grime. Happily, the staging was so good by the race folks that no where was there a ‘jam up’ of people having to wait more than a few seconds to do obstacles.

HERE WE COME: Kim and I skunked the other gals in the mud pit and hit the finish line in 52 minutes 10 seconds.

ME:

“DIRT NEVER TASTED SO GOOD!!”

KIM:  ”Frankly, it needs more salt to be really tasty!!”

THE RESULTS:

Kim and I took second in age with our 52.10, behind the Cheetah gals who were one of the fastest of all female teams with their 45 minute win. (In fact they placed about 49th over all, and  had taken first in age in 9 other muddy buddys, compared to our 140th of 600ish.) We placed roughly 16th of about 131 or so teams.  Next time Kim and I may need to dress up as lions  and take out those Cheetah babe’s!!

The tri chicks Karrie and Leslie took 4th in their very competitive age group, and placed 174th over all with a time of 54.01. They’ve come a long way since that first tri they did several years back and are proving themselves a force to be reckoned with!

Except for the chill factor, also known as down right cold in my book,  we all enjoyed ourselves and hope to do this race again…and speaking of again, I see where it’s already scheduled to be at Veil on 28 March f 2010, which is a date that aught to be far warmer than Sunday was. The first 50 people who sign up for it receive technical shirts so if you’re gonna do it, think about signing up soon, INGY and  GLEN.

THANX DOUG FOR THESE PHOTOS!!

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