Monday: It was a perfect night for running – 6 degrees, clear with a refreshing wind. Rod, Sherian, Rene, Alex, Shiraz, Edie and April ran the Forest Grove loop frontwards and Flora, Rachel and Ross ran to Underhill and Broadway and returned. All runners met at the corner of Noel and Cameron and returned to Cameron together. We did about 7k and as my watch is still running, I can’t tell you what the time was, but Rod said it was 54 minutes. Alex ran a bit further as he did numerous Bobturns. We didn’t have any kona lava java after our run, sad to say. Rod did have a shot in the arm today in preparation for his upcoming trip.


Message from Maui: Just to report we are all safe and sound here in Maui. It did rainhere on Wednesday but we didn’t arrive until Thursday afternoon. The northwest coast, where weare, was mopping up flooding after near-record rainfall. But we have had sun since so we are doing okay. Tracy and I hiked into a volcano crater today at Haleakala – awesome!

Wednesday Jan 19th, 2011
Weather : clear sky.mild temperature. Runners : Renee, Sayeeda, Norman, Alex, Shiraz and Osama.
Route: From Cameron centre along Eastlake to Broadway and Underhill
Ran up Underhill to Forest Grove 3 times, ( 2 for Shiraz)
Ran down along Forest Grove Drive, Gaglardi Way overpass and back to the centre.
Time : 1:02 (Few minutes less for Renee, Norman and Sayeeda)
Distance : 8.3 Km. Alex

Other Wednesday Runs:
Flora and Rachel ran about 6k in Flora’s neighbourhood – time out 50 minutes.

Rod ran out from home this morning. Usual way up through Lake City to Underhill. Did 6x Underhill (nearly killed me) and then back the usual way though Forest Grove. Time out 1h35, distance 11 k.
Edie and April ran about 7k in their neighbourhood time out 47 minutes.
Laurie ran at Rocky Point.
No report from the Aloha Boot Camp. How quickly they forget their sodden friends. Sigh!

Saturday

Route : Ran to Kensington Arena and back via Eastlake , Broadway, Arden, IGA , Curtis …..
Total time : 1 hour 54 minutes ( a lot less for Rene and Norman.)
Total distance : 16 Km
Fast runners : Rene and Norman.
Runners : Rod, Sherian, Len, Shiraz and Alex.
Walk/Run : Flora and Ross. (We started together. But Flora told me not to wait for her and Ross. Don’t know how far they went.)
Weather : 5 degrees. and overcast but no rain.
Reported by Alex

Further report from Flora:
This is the report for Ross and my time out yesterday, 22 Jan 2011
My legs thought that the temp was a bommy 7c but others disagreed and suggested it was more like 4cRoss had a good ran/ walk up to Eastlake and back.
I ran up to Underhill and was inspired by Rod *6 hills and did hills *2.. run but mostly walking for a total time of 70mins out.
Debra ran 18k in the pouring rain on Friday – a wet start to her birthday weekend.
Report from Maui

We are all still alive here in South Kihei. The weather has been great and things have mostly
dried out from early January’s rain. We have been training hard with two-hour runs, then rest/walk days, and ran one hour today. No injurie
s or nagging pains to report! Tracy has been doing some biking too. The beaches are getting our attention too.

Bob picked up his race packet today and is set to go on the 15 K run on Sunday.
I will send a report on his race performance.
Aloha, Larrytheyounger