August Love!

I can't believe it's been almost 2 weeks since the last post - sorry Followers! The GGB's have been busy, I guess. Kristen was on a great beach vacation recently and I ... well, I really don't have any excuses. Regardless, the next race is quickly approaching and that means blog time!!

This is a bonus race included in our adventure racing series. It's a rogaine style format, which means you have 3 hours to get as many check points as possible, and you don't have to get them in order. There will be a 6+ mile run, 15 mile bike and 2 mile kayak. You don't have to go the full distances for each leg, but the check points worth the most will usually be the ones farthest away. Last year we got almost all the bike points, we made an executive decision not to kayak (which turned out to be a GREAT decision), and we got only one CP on the run. This year I'm pretty sure our focus will be on just the run and bike again. We haven't set it in stone yet, but that's what the car ride there is for!

Other news: we are so excited to announce that our great friend Lesley will be joining us at this race! She is in town for a "throwback" reunion weekend and she wanted to experience real race day excitement and stress. She already emailed Frank, the race organizer, and said she would like to volunteer - yayy Lesley!! We don't know what she will be doing yet, but Frank said he is going to give her a particularly difficult task ;)

Training for this race has been a little more relaxed. Kristen rode her bike and ran on vacation and I have been attempting to run and I have done some great Kick Punch & Crunch classes, along with a yoga class. Next week we have two training days planned together: a bike and a run on each day.

We hope your August is going as great as ours!! WAR pictures to be posted soon.