10 mile Challenge Coaches

TUESDAY, May 15th, 2012
I’m getting ready and a little “antsy” to be running with the new 10 mile challenge group along with welcoming back the alum! We officially start NEXT SATURDAY, May 26th. Going 3 miles!
I hope to be able to get some mid-day runs in (one lap around the bowl on Tuesday, hills on Thursday!) to keep this gal in shape. Hope you will join me! I hate running alone!

This Saturday, running 6. Stay tuned for which direction we will be going!!

THURSDAY, May 3, 2012
Ten Mile Challenge is on “holiday” for the next three weeks. This Saturday the PPacers are doing the annual Philippe’s run, some runners will start at Del Mar station and run downtown (about 9.5 miles), others, like myself, will meet at the Rose Bowl and do a lovely 6 miles and make friends with one of the Del Mar PPacers to take me back to the Rose Bowl.

So… the next challenge begins SATURDAY, May 26th where we will have a new set of PPacer Peeps and start off going 3 miles and work our way up to the final 10!!

Wende is taking three weeks off of coaching!!!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
GOING NORTH!!!!
Exciting day for the 10 mile challenge Pacers. Graduation is this Saturday!!! Everyone has done a fabulous job and it was so inspiring to run with you these last 10 weeks.

YOU ARE OFFICIALLY GRADUATED! 10 Miles this week, we do the same as the Half Marathon group.

You totally are rockin’ it!!!
See you Saturday!
Wende

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
We are SOOOOOO close to our completion. I’m truly getting excited. Please please please get in your mid week runs and cross train. DRINK WATER! It will be a hot day Saturday!!

This Saturday (April 21) we go NORTH for EIGHT miles!!! (I know, I said 9 last time, but I don’t like the sound of this heat, so let’s have a fun, but challenging run). I will not be there this Saturday, but Steve Domnier will be there to lead you on. I’m trying not to be jealous, because I know you guys will love him…

Good news, though! I will NOT be leading the stretches!! Ezra is BBBAAAAACCCCKKKKK!!!

See you next week!
Wende

Thursday, April 12, 2012
10 MILE CHALLENGE goes SOUTH for SEVEN!!
Hi everyone!
We’re getting very excited about our Challenge Graduation in two weeks. It’s VERY important that you keep your weekly works out. If you have time, the early run on Tues/Thursday’s at 6 is a great run and very rewarding…. Afterwards 

South for Seven this Saturday….sss…. Turn around at Garfield Park (touch the sign!)

See you PROMPTLY at 7am. WEAR RED!! Brush your teeth and SMILE for the CAMERA!!! We get to have our picture taken for the Pasadena Marathon magazine this weekend (if it’s raining, though… we will reschedule).

Oh! And the GREEN can needs you!!! I personally witness the Pacer Tent’s suicide at the LA Marathon and I was so traumatized of the experience that when we did the ceremonially dumpster dump, a small tear welled up inside my left blue eye.

Now we need a NEW tent! And we need it before MAY!!! (Pasadena Marathon). Be the proud Pacer and reach for that Green Can! (the cost is about $1,000 eek!!)

See you $$$aturday!!!
Wende

Thursday, March 1, 2012
URGENT URGENT URGENT!!Due to TONS of various functions at the Rose Bowl this weekend, WE MEET AT GARFIELD PARK in SOUTH PASADENA!!

Garfield Park is on Mission. If you are coming from Pasadena, head South on Fair Oaks, and turn left on Mission, it’s the first stop sign. Obviously just the opposite for those that are coming from the San Gabriel area (Huntington to Fair Oaks, turn right on Mission).

10 MILE CHALLENGE!!!!!
We are doing our first FIVE this week!!! This is really important time for us…. so don’t give up. I heard this wonderful tip from one of my 10 Mile Challenge peeps which I would like to share.
SO…. your lying in bed and you start talking yourself out of running… and you’re doing a really good job at it, because it’s starting think “heck, I don’t need to run today, I’ll run later”… well guess what? Fine. But do me a favor. Get out of bed, put on your running gear (which you set out the night before) put on the Pasadena Pacer red shirt, and climb back into bed. I dare you.

HA!
Isn’t that an amazing tip!?

See you Saturday at GARFIELD PARK!!!
Wende

February 14, 2012
Happy Valentine’s Day! Eat all the chocolate you want today… drink a little champagne or martinelli’s and cheer to either your significant other, your best friend, your dog, your cat, your turtle… you get the idea. Enjoy today.
Now… wake up tomorrow and say…”I’m going to run with the Pacers this weekend!”

HELLO NEWBIES (and Alumni) of THE 10 MILE CHALLENGE! Let the games begin!

This week will be the introduction week to everyone with a “411″ of what the program hopes to help you reach your goal of 10 Miles in 12 weeks!!!

We will head North with the other Pacers, but continue around the Rose Bowl. This is a GREAT opportunity to meet each other and have fun at the same time! Imagine that!
See you at 7am for the most AWESOME stretches done by the one and only Ezra, the half-marathon-maniac coach.

See you Saturday!
Wende
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