Final Push for the American Cancer Society – 2010

Next Sunday is the Twin Cities Marathon and I’m raising money for the American Cancer Society through the DetermiNation program.

The details – along with some fun stuff – can be found here:

www.andylohn.com

Or click on this to donate.
DetermiNation

A Challenge I’m Working On

I’m currently training for the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon on 10/3/10 and raising money for the American Cancer Society.

The details, along with some fun stuff can be found here:

andylohn.com

DetermiNation

The Official Unofficial Myrtle Beach Marathon

This last weekend we went down to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to run the Myrtle Beach Marathon – this was going to be Erika’s first full marathon.  Due to about 3″ of snow, the official organized marathon was cancelled.  We we weren’t going to let that stop us, so we ran the Official Unofficial Myrtle Beach Marathon.  There were hundreds of people out running at the start and one news outlet called us “Renegade Runners“.  We did ran the full marathon route right at 4 hours.  We ran a couple of miles with a guy from Minnesota who had just run the the Arrowhead Ultra Marathon – crazy stories!  We made a clip that lead one of the news casts that night.  Here it is:

Here’s a link to another video with Rylen in it.

Here’s some good photos from not only the marathon but the entire trip:

Click here for a bunch of new’s stories about the marathon from the Sun News.

Here’s an article from Runner’s World I found today about the race….

Here is the group of us that ran together, the two other guys were from South Carolina, they didn’t know each other, we all just started running and got to know each other along the way:


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Check out the video on www.andylohn.com – Erika giving me a haircut.

The Des Moines Marathon for the American Cancer Society

The Des Moines Marathon is on 10/18/09 and I’m raising money for the American Cancer Society.

The details, along with some fun stuff (please vote) can be found here:
www.andylohn.com

If you wish to donate, click here…..

Andy's American Cancer Society Page
Andy’s American Cancer Society Page

The Real Challenge I’m Currently Working On

I’m currently training for the Des Moines Marathon on 10/18/09 and raising money for the American Cancer Society.

The details, along with some fun stuff (please vote) can be found here:
www.andylohn.com

If you wish to donate, click here…..

Andy's American Cancer Society Page
Andy’s American Cancer Society Page

EndurancePlanet.com

I listen to podcasts quite often and I really like this one. It’s a bit crazy, but the quote that stuck with me was that this guy and his wife made a promise to each other not to go through life sleeping.

EndurancePlanet.com: “Friday, August 8, 2008
Breakaway Friday: What Would Lloyd Dobler Do?
Specs: 16 mins, 18 secs | 4.67 MB
Presented by: Silverman

When Joe Kurmaskie set out with his two young sons to cover four-thousand miles on a bike, he wore a shirt with the abbreviation WWLDD on the front. It stood for: What Would Lloyd Dobler Do? Today on Endurance Planet we hear an audio excerpt from Kurmaskie’s book ‘Momentum is Your Friend’ in which he tries to live up to the high ideals of Dobler, a fictional character from the 80′s film Say Anything.

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Minnewaska Triathlon 2008

Today was the Minnewaska Triathlon. It was beautiful, calm day for it.

Here’s the site
Here’s a photo from last year

And here’s the video from last year.

Umbrella and a Bad Run

Here’s a terrible running story.
Erika and I went for a run the other night. We were only going to be together for 2 miles of it though. I was going to run for 13 or 14, so I had my ipod in my belt ready to play as soon as we split up.
As soon as we went our separate ways, I put on my head phones and pushed play. The song Umbrella by Rihanna came on. It’s the only song I’ve ever bought from iTunes and it was over played with my buddies in Seattle, so it was kind of fun to start off listening to. After it was over, the next song was…Umbrella by Rihanna – I hit fast forward, the next song was Umbrella by Rihanna. Yep, all that I had on my ipod was one song – one song and 11 miles to go. I tried to figure out all the words, but I don’t think I can still understand them. I also figured out that my external hard drive must not be hooked up since that was the only song I’ve purchased, that would be the only song on my C drive, everything else was on the external drive.
I heard Umbrella 24 times on that run – It’s my most played song in iTunes.

Here’s a link to the Wikipedia page that has all the info you’d ever want on it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_(song)

Here’s the video on youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4X7eFbP3u4
Here’s a link to the lyrics – http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rihanna/umbrella.html

Grandma’s Marathon Info

Here’s a link to the official site – http://www.grandmasmarathon.com/