Our Team

Kristi Holland
Kandi Shearer
Jason Reneau
Jane Reneau
Eric Charette
David Ploskonka

We are six runners from Alabama, Tennessee, and Maryland who are training to run the Blue Ridge Relay, September 5-6, 2008. The six of us will share the 208 miles from Grayson Highlands State Park in Virginia to Asheville, North Carolina. We plan to use this blog to write about our training experiences as we get ready to run, and to post updates here during the race itself so our friends and family can follow us along our 208 mile journey.

Here we go!

Kandi Shearer and Kristi Holland

Kandi Shearer and Kristi Holland

David Ploskonka

David Ploskonka

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Ready for Sleep!

Well we made it to Boone, NC. It is very pretty here amongst the mountains, sitting at 3000' ele. It seems like a quaint little place to live.

We went for a very, very, very, very brief run over to a greenway. It was a cool out and back that started from a park. There were tons of Appalachian State xc runners out doing speed work making us look slow.

The downtown had nice shops that closed at 5 so we just window shopped after dinner at Pepper's Restaurant.

The drive over the mountain pass seemed to take forever both up and down. It seems like travel west bound from Boone is mostly advised against and probably impossible in the winter.



We stopped at a cool little coffee shop and book store. Erica-Janie-Mcguire-Reneau wants to buy it and live upstairs. When she found out that no one in town could paint turtles on her toe nails, I think she changed her mind.

Well off to bed. We are leaving at 6:30 to head over to the race.

Signing off - Hare Eric

1 comment:

Jane said...

That was NOT a very very brief run! It was 6 miles! That is not brief!