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Jan 182011
Stephen Colbert is right. Bears are a huge threat to America. If America is at war with Bears the front lines are in San Luis Obispo, and the running brothers experienced this first hand.
When my brother first brought up this project, my first thought was, “what about the bears?” But I eventually accepted that we may run into a bear or two throughout our entire training program. I told myself, that risk was acceptable in comparison to the enjoyment and fullfillment we would get from this project. On our very first run through San Luis we arrived at the Mission and encountered the first Bear of our training program, a gigantic Grizzly jabbing at the water. He wasn’t bothered by us but we kept our distance.
After surviving our first close encounter, on our very first run, we continued on our run. Fully satisified by the laws of statistics that we would not encounter another deadly creature we continued our run along the stream that runs by the San Luis Mission and through downtown.
I am leading the way, on this dark gloomy rainy night at about 11:00 pm we emerge from behind a building and….. BEAR!!!! It was croached in an attack position waiting for anyone to come out from behind the building only a few feet away. Startled I jump away from the bear, Zeb seeing me follows in my cat like evasion tactics but we quickly are frozen in our tracks.
After further investigation we confirm that this bear is as harmless as the bear at the Mission. An obviously hilarous jokster placed this bear in this particular location to startle people like us. IT WORKED.
So one day into our training and we have already encountered my full anticpation of bears for our entire training program. Unbelievable. We will keep you abreast of any future close calls with bears.
Jan 182011
Jan 172011
Michael Nunez has joined The Running Brothers team. Mike has been one of my best friends since High School. He’s the type of guy who would do anything for you and is quite handy as well. Today, we completed our first run, a 2.4 mile run around Chino Hills and the guys in pretty good shape. I still dusted him in our run, but he gave a valiant effort.
Michael runs his own business, Adaptive Flooring, where he installs all types of flooring. He has been doing flooring for nearly 8 years now, is personable, adaptable and works hard to make sure that his customers are happy.
We are always looking for more people like Mike to add to The Running Brothers Team so if you are interested in exercising with us, don’t be shy, just ask.
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Jan 142011
I love to view comments made our posts in order to check out other blogs, one such comment sent me to a series of blogs called Sweat365. I asked one of these blogger, Mitch Roberts, about his affiliation with Sweat365 and how it works. According to Mitch, Sweat365 is a social networking blog used to log workouts and connect with other athletes.
Mitch typically uses Sweat 365 as a way to log all of his times, but occasionaly includes blog posts. He has made many friends through Sweat365 and actually has kept in contact with other athletes to help motivate each other.
On his website, mitchr.sweat365.com, Mitch uses several Side Bar Widgets, which can be found on the Dashbord. He uses Logbook 2 to record the distances for his workouts and a countdown timer set for Cour d’Alene where he plans on completing his next Ironman event. (Rocky, these look like really cool widgets, we should look into getting some for our page)
Sweat365 looks like a good way to meet others who like to run, bike and swim. If you plan on running, biking or swimming, it is worth looking into as it’s a community of like-minded individuals who will keep up on their workouts and try to motivate you to keep up on yours.
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