Memories for a Lifetime!

Adding to Tiffany's post below~ Thank you to all my fellow Lifetime Ladies for making this such an amazing and rewarding experience! I had such a blast at RAGNAR!!! It has been so fun getting to know each of you better throughout our training, meetings, and racing. What a rush! I will cherish this memory for many years to come! Who had any idea that 'running, driving, sleeping, and repeating' would be so incredible?!

Stay tuned for pictures and video clips... :)

~Brandy

WE DID IT!!!

WE DID IT!!!!!

GREAT JOB EVERYONE! IT WAS SOO MUCH FUN AND I AM SO PROUD OF US! I WOULD LIKE TO ESPECIALLY THANK THOSE WHO STEPPED UP AT THE LAST MINUTE. WE WOULDN'T HAVE FINISHED WITHOUT YOU!!!!

~THANK YOU LIFETIME LADIES~

TIFFANY

DetermiNation Welcome Package!

Who else received their DetermiNation welcome package in the mail this weekend?!! :) It came with this running shirt (the cut's similar to our pink Lifetime Ladies shirt)...

And this welcome packet.

How exciting! Thanks for setting all this up Tiff and thanks to all those that have participated! It really has been exciting to watch us meet and exceed our fundraising goals. And it is so fulfulling to know we're doing this for a greater cause that touches each of us in some way. If you haven't signed up yet, remember there's still time!

~Brandy

Exactly A Week to Go!

A week from NOW we'll be ringing in the Wasatch Back!

Go Lifetime Ladies!!


~Brandy

It's Almost Here!

Today was our last team run before the week of Ragnar!

It was at the infamous 'Big Dip' in East Layton.


These Lifetime Ladies pushed through like troopers!

I really missed running with you guys!

And I had so much fun with all you gals at our meeting tonight! What a fun group we have! I think my abs actually hurt from laughing so hard! :)

Congrats Jillian and Melanie on kickin' Trappers trash this morning! And thanks Shaylee for taking pics! We should totally post them!

Let's all just keep our legs warm over the next week and go show Ragnar what we're made of!

~ Brandy

Where Has The Time Gone?

2 more team runs until the week of Ragnar! Ahhhhh!!!!!!

Thanks ladies! It was nice to get yet another run out of the way! It's so much better running as a team than running alone! We loved having ya Krista and we're glad to have you back Sharon! :)

~Brandy

I trained on my first leg!

It was a good running weekend! I started off by running Friday just before dinner and first thing Saturday morning to get a little taste of 2 runs in 24 hours. These times are within a few hours of when I anticipate I'll be running my Ragnar legs so I thought it was a pretty good test. It wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be, but I did get a good night sleep in my own bed for training and I didn't run quite as far as my first and second legs so I could save some energy for Monday. :) This weekend I'm going to train for my 3 runs in 36 hours.

Today I went and trained on my first leg up Old Snow Basin Road. Wow, is all I have to say! I really under estimated how difficult it would be. I think it was harder mentally than physically! I couldn't tell what was coming up after each switch-back I was on and I was worried I wouldn't pace myself and would run out of fuel. It actually looked a lot scarier and much longer driving it than running it, so I think I kinda psyched myself out. I'm not gonna lie~ I had to walk parts of it. But I was so glad I got a chance to get up there and do it! And I know I can only improve now that I've run the course!


Though I was really disappointed I had to stop and walk parts of it, I actually beat the time the Ragnar Pace calculator predicted for this leg by 25 seconds based on my average time we put in when we were estimating what times our runs would be! My goal is to train on this course once more before Ragnar and shave off another couple minutes (even a minute would be nice) by the actual race.

Here are some pictures of our drive back down after my run, so every downhill you see was actually an uphill on the run. (I swear the pictures don't do it justice). lol!

The views were gorgeous!

I can only pray it's nice and overcast like this during Ragnar! :) These pictures actually look quite a bit darker because they were taken through our slightly tinted front window.

How did this weekend go for everyone else? I would love to hear from others! Post! Post! Post! :) I think it's good motivation and pumps everyone up to see what everyone's up to. :)

~Brandy