So I’ve been out of touch for a while.  Things have been a bit hectic and I’ve been deciding the direction of the site as a whole.  I’ve gotten a friend to work on a new redesign for LAFRider and we’ll be retuning the focus and usability of the website.  Hopefully the new look and feel will be fleshed out and refined before the beginning of the new year.  In the meantime I’ve run the Raleigh City of Oaks Marathon and a Turkey Trot in Wake Forrest.  It’s a bit too late to post a race report but I’ll be putting up a race report on the Jingle Bell Run 5K I’m doing this weekend and then the First Carolina State Bank Half Marathon in Rocky Mount.

Till then I wanted to pass along the news of a new half marathon series.  It will be a series of half marathons throughout the course of 2008 and will eventually comprise six races.  If you run three of the races during the year you’ll be recognized at a special awards banquet at the end of the season.  The goal of the series is for me to break an hour and a half finishing time.  In the City of Oaks Marathon I did a half marathon time of two hours but Zack and I were holding back trying to pace ourselves for the entire race.  So we’re thinking that we could’ve broken 1:45 if we had pushed it and I’m thinking I can hit 1:30 if I really burn it out.  We’ll see but its always good to have goals.

North Carolina Half Marathon Series
http://ncraces.com/Half_Marathon_Series.php

I added my Livestrong Challenge results to the Races/Results page, notice that the Livestrong Challenge 5K is bolded because it is a new PR at that distance.

Also Kreutz Photography has posted all their Austin Livestrong Challenge pictures here: http://www.kreutzphotography.com/default.asp?LOC=%2FKPhoto%2FPhoto%5FViewList%2Easp%3FDID%3D24%26TYP%3DPUB. They got a lot of good pictures of me, Ron and Paul which I’ll probably be picking up soon.