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Mystery Challenge Date Re-Scheduled for June 26, 2011

Jun 032011

As you may remember from one of our earlier posts, http://runningbrothers.com/1057/mystery-challenge-2/, I established a Mystery Challenge for my brother, Rocky. Unfortunately, a huge golf tournament, the Richard McKinnon 5th Annual Golf Tournament took place on the day that I had originally planned for our Mystery Challenge #2.

The new date is set for June 26 and barring any setbacks, the Mystery Challenge for my brother, Rocky will commence. Rocky, be prepared because in 25 days my Mystery Challenge will have you testing the limits of what you thought was possible.

Anyone who is interested in participating in the Mystery Challenge is more than welcome to join us. If you are interested in finding out more information about the Mystery Challenge leave a comment on our page and I will inform you about what it will entail.

Thanks for following us, we love you all.

Zeb

The 5th Annual Richard McKinnon Golf Tournament

May 242011

The Running Brothers, our Dad, Larry and our cousin, Beau all participated in a golf tournament this past Sunday. I had not been golfing since December and I know that my brother has not been playing much either since he has been too busy with work. However, I knew that I would not have to be performing at my best for this golf tournament as many of the people who were entered had no idea how to play golf.

We made our way slowly around the golf course and on the first par 3, on a 180 yard hole, I pulled out my 6 iron and “stroked” a beautiful shot that hit the green and rolled up towards the pin. The ball landed on the green and slowly rolled towards the hole. I raised my hands in the air anticipating the ball dropping into the hole for my very first hole in one. But, the ball didn’t drop. We drove up to the green and saw that somehow the ball had rolled directly behind the hole by about two inches. How it didn’t drop, I had no idea.

We skipped a few holes, in order to pass some of the beginning golfers and made up for those few missed holes by playing some holes twice. Once we passed those golfers, it was smooth sailing for us. On another 180 yard par 3 on the back nine, I stuck a 5 iron to 14 feet 10 inches which was good enough to win one of the closest to the pin prizes, a free round of golf for me and a friend at El Prado golf course.

On the 17th hole, a straight par 5, my brother and I narrowly missed hitting the green in two and after missing our short eagle chips, settled for birdies. When the round was over, I had shot an 81, while Rocky shot an 88. Both great scores for us. When all was said and done, I had the second best score of the tournament, losing by one stroke to the first place guy. All in all, we had a great time golfing and were happy to get out and play some golf with family and friends.

After our round of golf, we played a soccer game, too. We ended up winning 4 to 1. It was an easy game and an easy victory.

Our Mystery Challenge had to be postponed in order to enter the tournament. Expect an update on the date to our next Mystery Challenge.

May 22 Mystery Challenge Postponed! We’re golfing!

May 142011

To those of you that were interested in participating in the May 22 Mystery Challenge, it has been postponed. My brother and I will be entering a golf tournament instead.

The golf tournament is the 5th Annual Richard H. McKinnon Memorial Golf Tournament: which will be held on Sunday, May 22nd. We will be playing at El Prado Golf Course and are looking forward to taking home the trophy . . . or at least having a good time!

Our Mystery Challenge will be rescheduled for another date in the near future. I will keep all of you informed on the new date.

The Running Brothers Top 9 Posts for April

May 042011

http://runningbrothers.com/category/the-running-brothers-movie/ – The now world famous Running Brother’s is up on our website. We had to break the movie into two parts. David Archuleta even wanted to audition for the next Running Brother’s movie. We told him we’d think about it. The movies have received wide acclaim by critics everywhere and has reached almost 450 views on www.youtube.com.
http://runningbrothers.com/category/our-heroes/ – This month we interviewed two new heroes, Greg Hardesty, who works with my father at The Orange County Register and Peter Engwall from auggiesdad.sweat365.com.
http://runningbrothers.com/1009/joined-up-with-some-new-runners-rocky-duran-and-chris-sydow/ – Rocky Duran and Chris Sydow joined The Running Brothers team. We ran for several miles together and are planning on running together a lot more often.
http://runningbrothers.com/1003/we-went-and-bought-new-running-shoes-saucony-progrid-ride-3s/ – We decided we needed to buy new running shoes and headed to A Snail’s Pace in Brea. We were helped by the friendly staff on hand who set us up with our brand new running shoes.
http://runningbrothers.com/category/rocky/ – Rocky wrote three amazing posts this month. “I’m Back” announced his return to The Running Brothers blog after a mini-hiatus. “Novelty Running” focused on his obsession with shopping for useless gadgets. And “Melt Downs and Blow Ups” asked our heroes for their favorite racing experiences.
http://runningbrothers.com/category/events/los-alamitos-race-on-the-base/ – We completed our series on the 2011 Los Alamitos Race on the Base where we discussed the race, our preparation for it and how we felt afterwards.
http://runningbrothers.com/971/pacific-electric-bike-trail/ – We took a leisurely bike ride along the Pacific Electric Bike Trail, find our opinions about it here.
http://runningbrothers.com/1057/mystery-challenge-2/ – I posed the second installment of our Mystery Challenge Series to Rocky. He has no idea what the mystery challenge will be, but everyone is welcome to join us for the mystery challenge. If you would like to participate you won’t need to run, bike or swim, although you can if you want to. Please contact Zeb if you want to get in on the mystery challenge.
http://runningbrothers.com/1027/exotic-animal-siting-on-a-run-through-chino-hills/ – Running in the week before the Orange County Marathon I came across my favorite animal, a Zebra, in my hometown. It’s amazing the things you can see when you run, bike or swim around a city.

Mystery Challenge #2

Apr 282011

Rocky issued me the first mystery challenge several months ago. I had no idea what to expect and when my brother showed up on Super Bowl Sunday at some ungodly hour in the morning he displayed our new Running Brothers t-shirt and told me that I would be running a half-marathon in a couple of hours.

With no preparation and never having ran a distance amounting to that much in my life, I thought I did pretty good under the circumstances. I completed my first half-marathon running the entire way and it was a really cool experience. My brother’s mystery challenge was a huge success and today, I am throwing down my mystery challenge for my brother.

The mystery challenge is set to take place on Sunday May 22, 2011. The date is negotiable, so Rocky, if you need to change the date, just let me know. Another great thing about this mystery challenge is that anyone who lives in Southern California is invited to participate. If you are interested in participating in Mystery Challenge #2 . . . a mystery for Rocky, call me or send us an email at runningbros@gmail.com and we can tell you what the mystery challenge is so that you can decide to participate in it with us.

The great thing about it is that if you don’t want to run, or bike, or swim, you don’t have to and you can still have a great time with The Running Brothers and friends.