This will be the 5th year in training for the Bolder Boulder. The wonderful race director, who is too tired to deny my persistent pleas for course clearance, I think, has given in. Out of over 50 thousand racers, there might have been under 10 people who get mad that my team takes up space on the course. There has been a boy who wanted to beat my record and apparantly, when the race director said that I get special clearance because I am an athlete, he brought the local news station in to race headquarters for a suprise visit. I felt bad but know it is hard to organise waves of walkers, joggers, strollers, runners, pro athletes and now, circus freaks. I was excited when a 12 year old was inspired to hoop run for what ever reason but do understand exceptions to the rules. So for now, I am the only hoop runner on the course and blessed to be that exception. A man just told me of a woman in China who tried to beat my time by running on a track. That would be easy to do because most of what slows the team down are the groups of people that we must pass.

I will be posting frequently here, not because I think anyone has enormous interest in my personal training but because I want to hold myself accountable to reach my personal goals. There are always set backs that are funny after the fact.

In 2005,  when my friend called to see if I want to just try it, I was eating a chocolate cream pie out of the box.  On  her dare/suggestion I decided to give hoop running the 10K a shot. I organized a team and set the strategy just weeks before.    That should give you an idea of how much I like to train.

In 2006, I thought that running in my Tevas would be a good idea. I hike up 14ers in them so I figured that they would be supportive without giving me blisters. I didn’t get very far on them so my training was non existant. The night before I got a bad sinus infection from hooping in a dust storm at a concert, so breathing was a struggle.

In 2007, I tore my ankle 1 month before the race and had to wheel myself around in an electric scooter.

In 2008, I trained mostly inside and in cold snow storms in May. The night before the race, I had a neck spasm. I had to lift myself out of bed by my ponytail. 6 Ibprofin later I could stand up. I dont know how, but we broke our time by 1/2 an hour.

This year I am moving apartments 2ce in 1 month, going through a break up, trying to kick my chocolate addiction and complaining, mostly. I welcome any encouragement and training tips in replies to this post.

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