Ultimas Noticias 15k

This Sunday, while several dear friends will be pounding out the miles at the Steamboat Marathon, Tim and I will "compete" in the biggest 15k in Quito! Okay, it's the only organized 15k in Quito--but we do hear it's a big deal.

It's so big a deal, our school puts together a mildly formal team, gives everyone matching uniforms, and even a bus to the starting line. I mean, there's no team competition section or anything like that. It's just for solidarity. Solidaridad!!!! (So important here)

Sunday, I'll be sure to get a picture of Tim and I in our matching team uniforms! We will be the only gringos wearing these things and the shorts have cotton liners. Cotton! So 1980s, it's almost funny. Well, it's actually really funny.

I'm letting the 15k launch me towards my "big running goal." My first step, if you will, because I have not been running much lately. SOOO hard with so much rain. It makes me sad, and lonely, and depressed, and who wants to run in the rain when you've been living in Sunny-300-Days-a-Year Boulder, Colorado? Not I. Spoiled brat, I am. So here's to Sunday! I'm actually going to try out my 1980s shorts today and see if I'm even going to be able to wear them for 9 miles. I absolutely foresee myself, fabric scissors in hand, cutting out those damn cotton liners.

Welcome to Our Story

We are friends who have worked together, played together, grown up together, and now we're training together. Each of us has a major running goal for the coming year, but we lack a lot of immediate support around us in the form of running partners. I live in Quito, Ecuador; Whitney lives in Bend, Oregon; and Jess lives in Boulder, Colorado. So we have created this blog to keep in touch about training, offer support and inspiration, and give ourselves a public forum for which to be accountable--hopefully upping our motivation!

If you are a cool chick, know one of us, have your own big running goal, and want to join us in this journey, drop us a line. We have room for up to 97 more authors!

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