Updates from our First Meeting!

Team Luv a Dub!!!!

We had our first meeting last night and it was fantastic! Thanks so much to Chele and Jeremy for hosting!!!! What a perfect evening! I'm so excited!!!!

Another big thanks to Chele for determining the legs and printing out our "packets"!!!

Runner 1: Arvid
Runner 2: Stoney
Runner 3: Biggie
Runner 4: Pat
Runner 5: Jen
Runner 6: Tina
Runner 7: Mel
Runner 8: Chele
Runners 9-12: To be split up between Jeremy, Mark, Tim, and Sarah... (these are the toughie legs..)

We also determined that we would rent 2 vans (is Jeremy doing this? Pat?) so that we have room to spread out and haul around coolers, clothes, etc. I THINK this is how it will go: in the first van will be Chele, Mel, Tina, Pat, Jen, and ???. In the second van will be Arvid, Stoney, Jeremy, Tim, Sarah, Biggie, and Mark--with one of those folks in our van once "the toughies" figure out who's running what leg. I definitely feel a "competition" coming on between the two vans and our decorating abilities.... ahem. Start looking for streamers, posters, etc., etc.!

Mark also said that the hardest part of the race is NOT the running.... it's all the "downtime." Start looking for things we can do to fill our time, folks... cards, magazines, frisbees, footballs, etc., etc. (I think Pat wants to knit. HA!)

In talking to Mark, it sounds like we may not need drivers. It sound like a pretty shitty duty for the driver (as they do NOTHING but drive for 30 hours... stopping here and there and filling time... booooooring). Because we have six runners in each van, someone is always available to drive. Sooooo, Shannan and Eric, you're off the hook if you'd like to use your energy to head to Steamboat before us and get the grill going and the beer cold. Totally your call here...

We've got Sam as one of our AWESOME volunteers (YAY!) and now we just need two more... sounds like Chele's working on this...

We are also lucky to have a photographer who will be documenting the race for us--YAY, Frank!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Jeremy/Pat are going to be booking the place in Steamboat soon so be sure to let Chele know how many of you will be up there Saturday night.

We also discussed fundraising and how we're so blessed to have the Stelter Company and Chele's hospital possibly matching our donations! WOOHOOOO!!! Get out there and raise money for Dawn!!!! Stoney is going to help us out by posting a flyer/jar at Govnr's Park (and the other restaurants that they own) and we're also looking into a Garage Sale to be held at Shannan's sometime soon--details to follow.

A couple more things (wow, we really accomplished a lot over wine and beer and delicious snacks, huh?)... We are going to do a "team run" if you can make it this Saturday night. Our thought was that we could run individually on Saturday morning and then meet for a 4ish mile run together. (Again, we think it's better to do two shorter runs per day than one long one.) We'll meet at 6:00 to run the Highline Canal together. Plan to meet/park at the church on Hampden (almost at Colorado Blvd.)--do you know where I mean? Let me know if you're unsure....I can't think of the name of that church... We'll plan other group runs/hill training/conditioning at Red Rocks as we go.

And finally, please mark your calendars NOW for our final team meeting to be held at Chele/Jer's on Saturday, July 26. This will be a really important meeting where we'll tie up loose ends and make sure we've got everything we need.... I'm not sure what time we decided on but let's go with 6:00. If you know that this won't work, let Chele or I know so that we can re-schedule so that we can ALL be there. We may need another meeting between now and then but we'll see how we can do over email.

Remember: Please register for the race, guys!!! You can do that at www.wildwestrelay.com--Go to "Registration/Database" then "Team Registration" and we're obviously Team "Luv a Dub." Once you've registered there, you can mail your $90 check to Michelle.

--Tina