Final Call for Reach the Beach

We've been throwing ideas around on how we can keep this blog around post-Pittsburgh. There are three races on my radar for the fall: Reach the Beach, Tough Mudder, and the Empire State Marathon in Syracuse, NY.

Since these are all about a month apart starting with Reach the Beach in September, it's not out of the question that, time permitting, we could run all three. Moreover, Ross, Gordon, and I have found this blog to be a great way to keep in touch with many of our friends, and we all like the idea of having our friends take part in the running side of things as well.

That brings me to Reach the Beach. I've posted about it before. Essentially, it's a two-day event that takes place over 200 miles. Teams of up to 12 people run the race non-stop. It's held in New Hampshire on September 16-17.

Most importantly, over 80% of the spots are filled at this point. I'm not even sure we'll get a spot if we apply by the end of this week, but if there's interest, we should take our chances. Without further ado, please reply if you are definite about being able to come out to run.

(Note, with the utmost respect to our female readership, our preference is to field an all-male team. We're not trying to be dicks about it. That said, a co-ed team would be a lot of fun, too, and we will certainly entertain the possibility if we can't get enough guys signed up. What I mean to say is...everyone should post their interest.)

RTB Team Update

I'm seriously going to enter a team, so if you're interested, speak up. When we get 12, I'll enter a team. Again, it's September 16-17.

Guys (need two more): Sam, Gordon, Steve, Jeff (I think)

Girls (need three more): Natalie, Alyssa, Christine

Reach the Beach

Today is the first day that Reach the Beach Relay is accepting registrations. I know that Gordon will likely be on his honeymoon in September of 2011, but for the rest of us slobs with nothing better to do, I think it would be a great time. Best case scenario is that Jeff's 50-year-old knees hold up after a year of pounding pavement, Oliver's beer belly is down three inches, and Will has stopped dicking around in the Midwest. Add Ross and myself to that mix, and we're almost halfway there.

The details:

September 16-17.
We need 12 people.

The team can be co-ed.

There are 36 legs spanning about 200 miles, meaning each person averages 16.6 miles.

This will cost $1,160 ($97/person) plus van rental.

We could hang out in Boston the day before.

Other potential team members include but are not limited to: James, James, Sam, Ian, Mark, Steve, Mongeon (basically the complete list of my friends plus a few of Ross's friends that I know.) I don't know if it would be easier to go with 6 guys and rangle up 6 willing girls to go with us.