M2MRelayBlog

Starting Wave Times Announced

2009-09-05T16:07:00.000-07:00

Wave 1 @ 6:00 AM

Team Name
24/7
7 Lassies and a Fella
A.W.O.L. (Amazing Women of Lincoln)
Angry Beavers
Athletic Sounding Drinkers
AZmanian Devils
Barn Stormers
Bozell #1
Bozell #2
Brown Chickens
Brown Cow
Catch the Moose
Cereal Killers
Class Dismissed
Commonwealth Electric Company of the Midwest
Corn Huggers
CornFed Beef
Crayola Crazies
Crzy 8
Deadly 7s
Death Taxes & Running
Distance Divas and Dudes
Dude, Wheres My Van
Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies
Fo Shizzle
Fudge Dragon Assassins
General Dynamics
Gently Rolling Hills My @SS
GSH Hawks
Haymarket or Bust
Indecisive...we think?
It's All Good
Just to Finish!
Keystone Striders
Lady Road Runner Renegades
Loose Screws
Lusaka Track Club
Lutheran Chicks
Magic Shoes
Market Warriors
Max Muscle #1
Max Muscle #2
Max Muscle #3
Mud, Sweat & Cheers
Norfolk Ninjas
Omaha Bible Church
Philippians 4:13
Platte River Runners
Prairie Wolf Alumni
PUSH
Qdoba
Quarter Life Crisis
Random Runners
Run For Your Life (Ameritas)
Run West For Your Life
Run, Girl, Run
Runners with a Reason
Running Blind
Running Challenged!
Running for Sanity
Running on Empty
Running With Scissors
Seven Guys and a Cooler
Ship Happens
Sinclair Hille Architects Team A
Snitily Carr
Speedsters
Sunflower Striders
Team Fed
Team Green
Team Hope
Team Railway Union Employees
Team Trainwreck
Teaming of the Shrewd
The Bobbilamas
The Fast and the Delirious
The Pfighting Pfaunmillers
The School Girls
The Thundering Herd
Thirsty Scholars
Ttwo
Vitamin V
We're in a Van
White Lighting

Wave 2 @ 6:45 am
86'd
Achilles
Advanced Chiropractic Solutions
Agent 86
Are We There Yet?
Ask Me Again Why I Signed Up This?!
Avoiding Injuries
Big Head Mike and the Hashers
Bolt
Caution: Frequent Stops
Chariots on Fire
Cline Williams Law Firm
Columbia Track Club
Dem Crazy College Kids
Dino's Storage
Dirty Half Dozen
Don't !! Run Me Over
Don't Wait Up
Drinkers With a Running Problem
Fine Tuned Machine
Found Down
Gamma Phi Beta
HDR 1
HDR 2
Just Finish Baby!
K-Town Runners
Ladies of the Evening
Laminated Wood Systems
Leap for a Cure
Lincoln Running Company
Linomakan
Los Capitanes
Market Makers
Max Power
Mizuno: Lincoln Running Company
Money Bags
Ndorfopaedic
Nebraska Heart Institute #1
Nebraska Heart Institute #2
Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital
Night Train
Oedipus Wrecks
Omaha Police
OMGWHIGMI
Ortho Ocho
Our Dogs Are Barking
Pastor Craig's Team
Peace, Love, and 86 Miles to Beer
pedestriantraffic
Prairie Pounders
Procrastination Pays
Red9 Racers
Run Faster Drink Sooner
Sinclair Hille Architects Team B
Sole Train
Someone has to finish last!
Southview Striders
Strangers on the Run
Team Bar Bet
Team ConAgra Mills (No Pain, No Grain)
Team DNR
Team Gump
Team Ibuprofen
Team Kareem
Team Name:
Team Nebraska Brooks - Men
Team Nebraska Brooks - Mixed
Team Nebraska Brooks: Women
Tears to Beers
The 1st ACCS Running Team
The BeerFeet Running Co.
The Common Tread
The LutherRuns
The Raven Flies West At Midnight
The Rockets
The Swingers
Tiger Coaching
Twitching Roadkill
UP Men
Wagner
We Did What?
Winged Ears

Vote on the Official Shirt

2009-08-16T05:49:00.000-07:00

Below are two choices for the 2009 Race Shirt. The Race Shirt is the techincal running shirt you get with your entry, you don't have to wear it on race day.

Please vote for which design you like better. The one on the top is horizontal design the on the bottom is vertical.

Stage Rating Scale

2009-08-08T15:08:00.000-07:00

I am working on the race day guide book today. I remember quite a few people saying that they didn't feel some of the legs did not match up with the ranking of Easy, Moderate, Moderate/Hard, or Hard.

Here is a link to an old Blog with the most updated Maps of the course.

Would anyone like to chime in on how they feel what each leg should be rated. I base most of my ranking on elevation gain and very little on distance. Some people will say that stage 1 is way easier because it is 2.77 (6% grade in some sections and has a hill for 1.5 miles) than stage 4 because it is 5.00 miles (which gains maybe 20 feet).

Stage 1 2.77 H
Stage 2 4.19 MH
Stage 3 5.09 EM
Stage 4 5.00 EM
Stage 5 5.40 EM
Stage 6 4.70 MH
Stage 7 3.49 M
Stage 8 4.50 EM
Stage 9 5.41 EM
Stage 10 5.50 EM
Stage 11 3.00 H
Stage 12 3.59 M
Stage 13 3.91 EM
Stage 14 3.02 E
Stage 15 4.33 M
Stage 16 3.58 E
Stage 17 4.14 E
Stage 18 3.35 E
Stage 19 2.72 EM
Stage 20 2.95 E
Stage 21 3.64 E
Group 0.15 E

Registration is this week

2009-05-03T19:36:00.001-07:00

Early Captain's Registration. Monday
Lottery Tuesday to Saturday.

We fielded a bunch of questions about these two things at the Lincoln Marathon Expo.
1) The race is NOT SOLD OUT. It will be at the end of this week, but as of right now there is spots available through the lottery.

2)It doesn't matter when you enter the lottery as long as you do it sometime next week. If you sign up on Tuesday at 8:01 Am you will not have a better chance then if sign up on Saturday at 4:45 pm. We will randomly pick 50 teams.

3) The early Captain's Registration-does not mean if you were in the event last year that you have an automatic spot into the 2009 relay. We will take the first 80 teams that sign up out of the 150 teams that were in the event last year.

4) I don't need all the names, shirt sizes, email addresses.... when you sign up next week for the lottery or the early captain's registration. I will ask for those at a later date.

5) I have no idea how many people will sign up for the lottery. It could be 10 it could be 300. My guess is it will be more than 50, which would mean that if you don't sign up for the lottery then you missed your chance for 2009 relay.

Good Luck.

Pass this onto other running blogs you read.

2009-04-24T13:29:00.000-07:00

The running season is in full swing with many people running their first half or full marathon of the year last week and the rest of us to follow in the next few weeks.

I just wanted to make sure that you knew about the new registration format for the 2nd Annual Market To Market Relay presented by Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital. The race is an 84 mile team relay from Omaha to Lincoln. In 2008 the event sold out 3 months in advance and had over 50 teams on a waiting list. This year we have decided to change the format on how teams enter the race.

May 5th to May 9th an online lottery will be available at www.m2mrelay.com At this time you will have the opportunity to put your team’s name into a “hat” and then 50 names will be pulled from that hat to compete in the race. The race will have a total of 150 to 170 teams but the rest of the teams in the race will be teams that participated in 2008, won their division or a contest, sponsor the race, or meet the minimum speed requirement for the Citizens Class A Division.
Check out the website for all of the details including course maps, results and pictures from 2008, and much more. www.m2mrelay.com

Thanks for spreading the word,
Ben Cohoon

Pass this on to other running blogs you read

Soundtrack

2009-03-21T12:33:00.001-07:00

Ni-Bthaska-Ke Trail Run

2009-03-17T06:31:00.000-07:00

For all you trail runners this is event that like the Wyco Pscyo Run Toto Run is a tough single track race.

The Ni-Bthaska-Ke Trail Run
The 12k course is on rugged and very hilly single track terrain.
Total elevation change was GPSed at 3400 feet. Not much else to say except this is not a typical city sidewalk or crushed rock trail run.

The Ni-Bthaska-Ke trail run is one of the most difficult races in the midwest.
When you finish the race you will feel a great sense of accomplishment. This is a very unique race for this area, so if you are up for a challenge while taking
in the beauty of the scenic Platte River State Park wilderness, this is the event for you.

Parking is available by the Mallet lodge, or tennis court areas. The race starts on the dam, across the street from the tennis courts. I hope to see y'all out there. Happy trails.

LB 134 Priority Bill

2009-03-15T15:49:00.000-07:00

From: Great Plains Trails Network

LB 134 has been designated as a priority bill by Senator Dave Pankonin (Cass County). As written, it would bar the use of eminent domain by a Natural Resources District for development of recreational trails or corridors unless the use is associated with a flood control structure.

This change would have an immediate negative impact on the completion of the MoPac Trail and restrict future projects.

Please help prevent passage of this bill by the Nebraska Unicameral.

I would appreciate some volunteers to write letters to the editors of newspapers and would be happy to review your drafts if you want some help.

Please contact your Senator and any you may know to express your concern. E mail, calls and letters are all appropriate. Contact information can be found at: http://nebraskalegislature.gov/senators/senator_find.php

Other elected officials, the Governor, Mayors, etc and the Natural Resource District officials should also be alerted to the concerns about the negative impact of this proposed legislation.

Many athletic groups make use of the trails for training and we would encourage coaches, youth, parents and boosters to join in this effort.

Feel free to forward this correspondence to others. Thank you.

Nancy L Loftis, president
910 L St., Lincoln, NE 68508
402 476 1111 Fax 402 477 9105
Cell 402 304 0452

nlloftis@aol.com

2008 Photos

2009-02-25T12:37:00.000-08:00

We are starting the marketing/advertising materials for the 2009 Relay and we are looking for some high quality photos that we could use. We already have a few but having extra is always nice.

Here are some photos from last year

If anyone has any that they would be willing to share that would be great. Send me an email at bcohoon@markettomarketrelay.com

2009-02-11T06:02:00.000-08:00

Runners With A Reason has huge goals. But we need you to help us.

Running a race like the Lincoln Half/Full Marathon is a tremendous personal accomplishment. By committing to RWAR and running for a reason, we know that the personal satisfaction you get from running your race will increase exponentially.

Runners With A Reason, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose goal is to eliminate the reasons why people don’t run. RWAR raises money through volunteer runners like you who pick a “reason” to run a half or full marathon. The “reasons” are as different as the runners, ranging from community sports programming to a role model who recently passed away to a sibling who has undergone multiple organ transplants to providing shoes to people in third world countries. As a RWAR runner, you raise a minimum of $250 for a non-profit organization related to the “reason” you’ve chosen as you train and run the full or half marathon.

The money that you raise goes to your "reason", provided that it is a 501(c)(3) organization. A portion of the money raised goes to RWAR to be used to help achieve its goals.

So what do you need to do? First, we ask that you pick a “reason” to run the Lincoln Half/Full Marathon—something that has personal meaning to you and that motivates you to run. Second, we ask that you complete the attached Runner Data Sheet and return it to me (britt.ehlers@yahoo.com) , or that you simply email to me the information requested in the Runner Data Sheet. Third, you need to register for the Lincoln Half/Full Marathon. Registration fills up quickly, and it would be a shame to train for a race and then not be able to run it. That is all you need to do right now.

In approximately a month, we will send you information to help you raise money for your “reason.” Until then, you just need to train and recruit anyone that you can to join you in running as a part of RWAR.

So remember:
1. Pick a “reason” to run.
2. Complete the attached Runner Data Sheet and return it to me, or email me the information requested in the Runner Data Sheet.
3. Register for the Lincoln Half/Full Marathon.
4. Tell everyone that you know about RWAR and recruit other runners to join us.

I’m glad that you are considering running as a part of RWAR and want to personally thank you for helping us. Our group is going to change the world and we are glad that you may join us.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. If you want to know more about RWAR, you can visit our website, www.runnerswithareason.org. You can email me at britt.ehlers@yahoo.com or you can call me at (402) 610-2640. I look forward to hearing from you.

-Britt Ehlers

Petition Donation

2009-01-15T07:31:00.000-08:00

I received an email about after you sign the Petition it ask you for a donation.

DO NOT pay the donation, it is for ipetition.com. It comes across as you need to donate to submit your petition but you don't.

Trouble in Trail Land

2009-01-14T09:19:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,
Last night I heard that the NRD subcommitee decided NOT TO TAKE ACTION on the design of the trail from Mopac to the Lied Bridge at the Platte River.

It is critical that as a group and as many future users of that trail that they notify the LPSNRD Board of Directors how important it is that they continue the design of that important trail connection from Wabash to the Lied. One member of the subcommittee said tonight that he had not heard from anyone who would use the trail or who was in favor of it.

If you want to help:

Sign this petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Mopac

Email the board and state that you want the trail: lpsnrd@lpsnrd.org

Forward this message to your friends

See the potential trail between the bridge and Mopac.

Email the board and state that you want the trail: lpsnrd@lpsnrd.org

Team Matrix/Total Per Person

2009-01-09T15:16:00.000-08:00

A few of the questions have been about how many members we will allow on a team. While the new course arrangement fits a 7 person team better the race will still be for teams of 6, 7, or 8.

This new arrangement also makes the course mini-van friendly. More updates to come as we finalize details.

2009 Market To Market Relay Course

2009-01-08T17:45:00.000-08:00