Burrito Run

I've worked out the past 5 days and tonight I made it to the team workout. Cameron skipped her gym class and scheduled a make-up on Saturday so that meant Jeff could stay home with both the kids. I was excited and headed out to Foothill 's track. But of course I got lost driving since I still don't have my car. I really should think about how to get to where I'm going but I'm so used to my navigation system that I'm that much worse at directions now.

Tonight the coaches sent us to spend 20 minutes warming up. They said we should try and run 2 miles within that time. I decided I would actually just do a warm up and ran really slow. I hadn't talked to Cookie since Saturday so we spent some time catching up. We were moving at a snail's pace and so it was taking us almost 4 minutes per lap. We ran around for 1.5 miles before the coaches stopped us to kick off the race.

All the team members were split into two groups, fast runners and slow runners (I took the slow group). Then we were paired up, a member from each group. The coaches explained that the Burrito run was each team member had to run 2 miles for a total of 4. We had to guess the combined time and the team closest to their time won.

I was paired with Nicole, another mom with two children 2 and under, and we called ourselves "Mommy Supreme." We weren't real clear on the rules so we guessed it would take her 16-17 minutes to run 2 miles, and then I guessed it would take me about 30. I say we weren't clear on the rules because our estimates were as if we had to run 2 miles straight. When the race started it became clear that we could alternate laps.

Most teams each ran a .25 mile and then swapped. Nicole ran two laps before we decided to take advantage of trading off so we stuck to the .50 mile tag. Since we were getting breaks in between we were faster than our 40 minutes guestimate. We completed the race in just over 30 minutes.

Needless to say, we didn't win. But we didn't lose either. The loser missed their estimate by more than a half hour. The winners, a team that had both done team-in-training events before missed their estimate by less than a minute.

We also had to recommit, meaning we had to guarantee the fundraising goal in order to continue training. I signed all the forms and wondered what I should do to raise the rest of the money. I guess I'll be having a garage sale soon...