AFRICA!

Sorry about the delay in posting, I have been a little lazy. During the 2nd full week in May we had our first 600 mile week, and that was enough to finish off the Americas and send us over to the western African coast. Specifically, we traveled to the city of Natal on the far eastern coast of Brazil. From there, we jumped over to Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Over the following week, we traveled through Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, and some more of Senegal, where we eventually came to a rest. We didn't do quite as well that week, but we were still over 500 miles. I know that I personally need to get back on track, I have been as lazy with my workouts as with my postings.

We will continue to work our way up the African coast, check back next week to see our progress.

Warm Weather = Biking

We are starting to rack up some bike miles, with the contributions from people who previously were not biking making the biggest difference. This is a sure sign that the weather is taking a turn for the better. Conversely, the water miles are tanking big time, and I am leading the retreat (0 water miles for me this past week). Oh well, let's focus on the positive. When Becky comes back from injury, and when Dave and Sandra start reporting, we will really be moving along.

Chris Fry ran a 5k last week (22:32). Congratulations, keep up the good work. Any other races coming up for anyone?

We should finish off Brazil this week, and then move our traveling circus over to the west African coast. I am kind of excited about that, it seems that we have been in Brazil forever. And Brazil is no place to spend an extended period of time, what with their rampant street crime, monkey infestations, and Xuxa worship.

7,911 miles down, 22,889 to go

We are at the 1/3 point. We have made it about halfway through Brazil, I think we can switch continents if we get a couple of strong weeks in a row (hopefully a little better than this past week).

We are 15% of the way to our water miles goal, 22% of the way to our biking goal, and 44% of the way to our running goal. Mike and Rob are well ahead of their goal pace, Lauren is still close to her goal pace, and several others are catching up. We had a great running week from Rachel (44 miles), and our individual week yet for Mike (172 miles total). One of our stalwarts is fighting with a calf injury (Becky), so that hurt our total a bit this week. We also had a lot of precincts that did not report. As I said, hopefully things will pick up over the next few weeks and we can get ourselves to Africa.

Have a good week, stay healthy our there.