Rock n' Run

As many of you know, I'm slightly a freak about Milwaukee Adventure Boot Camp (Go Elmbrook girls!). Well, this Saturday a bunch of us girls are going to be running the Rock N' Run to benefit the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and the United Performing Arts Fund. Since, this race is only a 3K and you get two complimentary MGD 64 beers, so it's not exactly a serious race. As a semi-serious runner and fan of the arts and beer, I think this is going to be super fun.
IF you read this and are inspired by running, the arts, or beer, this is the race for you! I will be meeting up with the Boot Camp group on the steps of the Senior Center/Muellner Building at Hart Park at 10:30 a.m. You are welcome to join us!

Details from 102.9 The Hog:
It’s THE HOG's MGD 64 ROCK N' RUN, presented by Rogans Shoes and Michalski Chiropractic!

A 3K fun run / walk with 2 complimentary MGD 64s after the race (21 years of age or older)! Proceeds benefit the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and United Performing Arts Fund.

The ROCK N' RUN happens at 11am on Saturday, May 1st at Hart Park in the ‘Tosa Village. There will be no "day of" registration. Sign up by 5 p.m. to get in!

Every runner & walker gets a commemorative ROCK N' RUN t-shirt and 2 complimentary MGD 64s after the race (21 years of age or older). It's all for the low low donation of $25 (did we mention it's a chip time event)!

Post Race enjoy food from Mr. Picnic and Streetza Pizza, plus ice cold Miller from Leff’s LuckyTown (like the new Aluminum Miller Lite Pints just $4 each).

THE HOG's House Band Black Frog will play after the run.

Brainstorm in June!

Hello everyone!

A good friend of mine, Melissa, has a brother who has Epilepsy. After she did a presentation on this disease and the Epilepsy Foundation for a class back in college, I've donated to her team every year. This year I am going to join her team Jay-Walkers (named so for her brother Jason), and run in Brainstorm 2010 as part of my 5K challenge. Brainstorm will be my June race on the 27th at Veteran's Park near the lakefront.

Epilepsy is the medical term used to describe the more than 20 types of seizures. Epilepsy can affect ANYONE, at ANY AGE, at ANY TIME. There are 30,000 individuals affected by epilepsy in our four county Southeast Wisconsin area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington) and 44-50% of those diagnosed with epilepsy are NOT medically controlled at this time. From the the Foundation's website:

The Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast Wisconsin is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all those affected by seizure disorders/epilepsy through education, direct services, advocacy and the support of research for the prevention and cure of epilepsy. We are the only agency specifically organized to serve the diverse and special needs of the 10,000 children and 20,000 adults with epilepsy in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha and Washington counties. An additional 100,000 family members may also require epilepsy-related services.

Please help me help Melissa and her family support the Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast Wisconsin to bring help and hope to individuals affected by seizure disorders! I've met Jason and he is an amazing person! Their whole family is amazing! Check out my fund-raising site to pledge some dollars if you can. You can join Melissa's team too if you'd like and run with us! Thanks for all your support and reading my blog! Oh, by the way, I still don't have a May run picked out. Suggestions? Help!

Exercise High and Running for the Alma Mater

Hello folks who I've sorely neglected for about a month,

First off, please allow me to apologise for my lack of posts. I should really get more on top of that, but life happens. Also, summer is going to be nuts with running, horseshoes, softball and volleyball. Eek!

Second, I've started up training again with Milwaukee Adventure Boot Camp (LOVE) in Elm Grove. While my schedule and finances do not allow me this treat more than a few times a year, I'm so stoked to be back. I'm waking up at 4:30 a.m. (Crazy? Why, yes!) to drive over to Mary Knoll Park and get my butt kicked for an hour (5:30 - 6:30 a.m.). We literally don't stop moving the entire time. We do lunges, plank holds, sprints, squats, kicks, band exercises, weight exercises, stretching, running, hills, bear crawls and more. There are even a few exercises that we have renamed funny things like "the naughty housewife" and the "boob lifter".

While it is kind of ridiculous to get up so early and run around like a crazy person, it is a huge boost to my exercise routine. Plus, a ton of people that were in my classes back in fall are still there this spring and we're all just so happy to see each other! When I first signed up a lot of people lovingly asked, "are you nuts?" to which I replied, "apparently." Then they saw how fit and happy I was, so now I get lots of "babe, look at your calves!" which makes me extremely happy. (That and when I wore a skirt that made the BF say "whoa...") I know that your self worth is not in how you look, but based on your personality/soul instead. However, my soul is doing cartwheels with all this energy I have! Then again, that energy is gone and I'm snoozing by about 9 p.m. for the next 4 weeks. Ha!

Finally, I have some more happy news! I took off another 32 seconds from my 5k time! That's right! Running Gary's Gallop on April 17 was a lot of fun, although super windy. This event is to help the athletic programs at Wisconsin Lutheran College - my college, sweet college. I loved going and seeing all the smiling Warrior faces. Tons of students, alumni, alumni kiddos, and community members were there to run the very hilly course. Even my church's 5K Klub was out with a good showing.

I ran with my friend Tammy who was on the WLC Cross Country team. I kept up with her for about the first mile and a half, but she was still going strong when one of the hills took it's toll on me and my side. I had to slow down a bit, but was pretty excited about my mile times. My favorite part of this race is that you do your last 500 meters or so by running around the track and then a dash down the center of the field to the finish line. It's like running for a touchdown! At the finish line, my friend Brian who is also on the Alumni Committee with me gave me a high five... and then patted my head... silly man.

While the formal results aren't posted yet, I can tell you that my friend Angie won 2nd place for our age group and that my time for this run back in 2008 was 35:01. Man, that makes 31:29 feel even better!

Up next: No idea. Suggestions for May anyone?