gO! Advocates

You are invited to the gO! Advocates official kick-off party next week, where we will officially begin the adventure of training for a half or full marathon together. Whoot whoot!

What: gO! Advocates Team Kick-Off Party

When: Thursday April 5th from 5 to 7pm

Where: Granite Bay, CA

KID FRIENDLY PARTY - NO NEED TO FIND A BABYSITTER

At the party you can expect to learn more about our team, the training plan and our goals. We will also be ready to help you set up your Razoo page, if you haven't done so by then.

We will have plenty of food and drinks so come hungry and thirsty.

If you have any friends interested in joining our team please bring them with you.

Please email your RSVP. Nick will reply with the address and gate code, we look forward to seeing you there!

Thanks!

Nick
nick@casaplacer.org

Child Advocates: http://www.razoo.com/story/Child-Advocates-Of-Placer-County



gO! Advocates Team: http://www.razoo.com/team/Go-Advocates



Sample Personal Page: http://www.razoo.com/story/Nickisrunningforkids

American River 50 Volunteers Needed

Wanna experience the AR50 even though you are not racing?! Wanna get a glimpse of the early race leaders and cheer the gO! Runners on as they run by? Wanna volunteer your time to make the AR50 a great race?
VOLUNTEER NOW AT FLEET FEET'S MILE 8 AID STATION!
Kirk (Fleet Feet's marketing director) needs a handful of folks that would be willing to help the store out at their aid station at William Pond Park from 6-9am on race day. It is a ton of fun to help out and you would still have plenty of time to see runners at later checkpoints in the race and at the finish line. Please let Kirk know if you can help by emailing him at kirk@fleetfeet-fairoaks.com

gO! Mile (Attempt 2)

GOOD NEWS: We are going to try to record another gO! Mile tonight after a failed attempt two weeks ago due to the rain. BE READY!!
BAD NEWS: We are going to try to record another gO! Mile tonight after a failed attempt two weeks ago due to the rain. BE READY!!
OTHER NEWS: We changed Thursday's run location due to the fact it is on trails and we are unsure about the condition of the trail and the darkness. We will now meet at the Park N Ride in Rocklin on corner of Sunset and Pebble Creek.

Weekend Motivation

A book I am reading, Iron War, had these two statements in them. I thought they fit perfectly for what the gO! members are trying to accomplish this weekend! I admire the mental strength in each of you! Good luck this weekend gO!

“To win or succeed (in any endurance event), you have to have physical and mental strength.  And everyone has physical strength.”

-Wolfgang Dittrich

To Continue or To Quit?

In the hardest moments of a long race, an athlete’s entire conscience experience of reality boils down to a desire to continue pitted against a desire to quit.  Nothing else remains.  The athlete is no longer a student or a teacher or a salesman.  He is no longer a son or father or a husband.  He has no social roles of human connections whatsoever.  He is utterly alone.  He no longer has any possessions.  There is no yesterday and no tomorrow, only now.  The agony of extreme endurance fatigue crowds out every thought and feeling except one: the goal of reaching the finish line.  The sensations within the body- burning lungs, screaming muscles, whole body enervation- exists only as the substance of the desire to quit.  What little of the external environment the athlete is aware of– the road ahead, the competitor behind, the urgings of on lookers- exists only as the substance of the desire to continue.  The desire to continue versus the desire to quit- the athlete is in this and this alone until he chooses one or the other.  And when the choice is made he briefly becomes either persevering or quitting until, after he has stopped at the finish line or, god forbid, short of it, the stripped-away layers are piled back on and he becomes his old self again. Only not quite.  He has changed, for better or worse.

-Excerpt from Iron War by Matt Fitzgerald