Showing posts with label save some cash money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label save some cash money. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Baltimore Running Festival Price Increase April 1

Baltimore Half and Full registration fees increase on April 1st, so save yourself $10 if you are planning to do either. 

http://www.thebaltimoremarathon.com/Registration/2004reg22d8.htm

Expo this year is in the Convention Center, so that's MAB.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Shamrock 5k EARLY REGISTRATION

Race Date: March 13, 2011

Fees: $30 Postmarked by December 31, 2010.

Active.com always whores us a charge I refuse to pay if I don't have to.

SO, I filled out the PRINTABLE form, hit print, wrote a check, and put a $0.44 cent stamp on it.

Enter the team name Falls Road

If you decide to run, I'd choose paying $30.44 with 2-minutes extra effort...

Or help the economy (and Active.com)
Entry Fees:
$30 through December 31
$35 January 1-15
$40 January 16-31
$45 after January 31

Jarf

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Goal for 2010: Be More Like Deena Kastor?

6:30am Wake up, eat breakfast: half a cantaloupe, cottage cheese and a blueberry-walnut scone
7am Walk Aspen, my chocolate Lab, for about two miles

8am Andrew, my husband, stretches me on the massage table and gets me prepared for practice.
8:30am Meet my teammates for practice
9am Warm up and drills, then a 10-mile tempo run [a fast-paced run that acclimates the body to a speedier clip] with a cooldown
10:30am Drink a Cake Batter Muscle Milk, my favorite postrun beverage!
11am Home for an ice bath
11:30am Eat lunch: Asian dish with last night’s leftover rice (I add two scrambled eggs, sesame oil, spinach, peas, tamari and top with toasted sesame seeds)

Noon Massage from Andrew
12:30pm Drink a homemade smoothie with banana, frozen wild blueberries, yogurt and flax seed
12:45pm Nap for a couple of hours with Aspen
2:45pm Eat a goat-cheese and fig-jam sandwich on rosemary bread
3pm Take a Spanish lesson for one hour
4pm Drive to lake and let Aspen fetch sticks in the water while I sneak in a cold foot bath
5pm Meet my teammates at the gym for hurdles, weights, medicine-ball throws and plyometrics [jumping and skipping drills that strengthen leg muscles and improve running form]
5:30pm Run five miles

6pm Eat a before-dinner snack of apple with almond butter
7pm Dinner at Restaurant Skadi: bread with olive oil, mixed green salad and soft-shell crab. Andrew and I catch up on our day.
8pm Answer a couple of e-mails
8:30pm In bed

It's fair to say that Deena's life is just a little bit different from our crew's day-to-day life (when was the last time you were in bed before 8:30?) I've always envied how she is married to a massage therapist. I hate stretching, and I'm awful at remembering to do it ...only to be reminded when a knee or a hamstring starts to hurt, badly. And lucky DK doesn't have to stretch...her husband stretches her! And a post-workout massage!

My friend Dan Taylor, is also lucky to be married to a massage therapist, Claire Taylor. During school Claire needed extra muscles to practice on and I was happy to volunteer. She takes credit for my PR at the Boston Marathon last year, thanks to several post-long run and a pre-race massage. It certainly helped keep me injury-free and it's a little easier to get out the door for a 20-miler when you know a massage is in your future.

Now fully licensed and, as always, fully awesome, Claire has offered a 10% discount to anyone in our group. She and her husband are runners themselves, so she has a good understanding of common running pains and injuries. For information on services, rates, and locations, check out her site: http://www.clairetaylormassage.com/