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Saturday Feb 10, 2024

Hi, We are 2 weeks away from Ventura Half and Marathon, 3 weeks away from Tokyo, 9 weeks from Boston!

We are meeting at the Vieja Valley Elementary School at 6:30AM!

See ya there,

Mike and Rusty

Sat Feb3, 2024

 Hi, We are 3 weeks away from Ventura Marathon,  and Half, 4 weeks from Tokyo and 10 weeks away from Boston.

We are meeting tomorrow at Dos Pueblos HS by the tennis courts 6:30am Sharp!

Below is the map of the Course that the Ventura Marathoners are doing:

This is what everybody else is doing:

1/31/24

 Hi Everyone,

In light of the upcoming rain, and trying to be good stewards of the trails, the first meeting of the trail group will be postponed until Thursday 2/8.  The meeting place will be the same, El Rodeo drive for a run at tuckers grove 6:30 am

January 27,2024

 Hi, 4 weeks from the Ventura Half and Marathon, 5 weeks Tokyo, 11 weeks Boston!

Local SBRR Entertainment TONIGHT! Shane Mihalka’s Band  FSKD (front street knuckle draggers) is playing tonight at the Tully, 1431 San Andres Street, SB - start time at 9pm playing like 35 minutes of Punk/harder rock madness. Although a bit late Shane says they are worth it and we believe him!

See you tomorrow at Shoreline Cafe 6:30pm!

Mike/Rusty

Saturday January 20th

 Hi Everyone,

Coaches Rusty/Mike are out of town this week at the USATF cross country meet.  Practice will meet at 6:30 am at Goleta beach park.  Warmup 40 minutes.  

The workout will be on the bike path.  3 miles at 85%( tempo) effort from mile 0-3 on the path.  5 minute jog recovery, followed by 2 miles back to the 1 mile mark 10-15 seconds per mile faster.

Those training for upcoming marathons should have workouts on their schedule

Rusty/Mike

Saturday Jan 13, 2024

Hi, race Calendar updates:  we are 6 weeks away from the Ventura Half Marathon and Marathon, 7 weeks away from the Tokyo Marathon and 13 weeks away from the Boston Marathon!

We are meeting at the Vieja Valley Elementary School tomorrow at 6:30am.

See you all there!

Rusty/Mike

Happy New Year!! January 6, 2024

Hi, Happy New Year! congrats to James Skinner for winning the Resolution Run 5K in a 17:50PR! Congrats to Todd Booth for his 3rd place overall in the 10k 36:37!

We look forward to health, hard work, great community and fast times ahead for 2024! We are 7 weeks away from the Ventura Marathon and Half Marathon where we will have a great SBRR Team presence. If you haven't signed up, do it asap! Look a few posts below for the Ventura SBRR Discount code.

SBRR Social weekend activities:

Sunday 1/7 come watch Sunkissed perform live music 4pm to 6pm at Fox Wine Co adjacent to Lamadog Tap room and Top Topa Brewery at 120 Santa Barbara St in the Funk Zone

Click on the link below:

Sunkissed

We will see you at 6:30am sharp at Shoreline cafe!

Rusty/Mike

Saturday 12/16/23 Holiday Break 12/17 through January 1st (first practice resumes Jan 2nd, 2024)

 Hi, See you tomorrow at the Vieja Valley Elementary School for our last practice of the year 6:30am.

Please see the prior blog post below for the Ventura half and Marathon SBRR discount code! 10 weeks to go!

Rusty/Mike

Ventura Marathon and Half SBRR Discount Code

 Hi guys, here is the SBRR Discount code

Join the “Santa Barbara Running and Racing” team during the sign up process 

   “SBRR2024Fast”

Saturday 12/9/23. Congratulations all Cal Int'l Marathoners! Holiday Get together Sunday 12/10 and SBRR Holiday Break

 Hi, 

Congratulations to all CIM SBRR Runners!

Stacey Bailey 3:13:33

Jamie Duncan 3:14:23 81% AG National Class

Kelsey Roberts 3:21:39

Erin Lamb 3:22:56

Chelsea Frei 3:27:05

Helen Payne 3:27:38

Karlyn Roberts 3:28:55

Christine Tyler 3:29:10

Jill Ireland 3:32:18  83% AG National Class

Roy McLaughlin 3:36:33

Maggie Mason 3:39:48 88% AG National Class

Christina Katz 3:54:20

Margo Rose 5:03:54

Announcements:

• December 13th 5pm to 8pm at Santa Barbara Running Co 1046 Coast Village Rd, Montecito 93108 get your Holiday Shopping done as Rabbit and SBRunning Co team up to give 20% OFF everything in the store. Giveaways, Cupcakes, treats and more!

• Holiday Notice From Jim Sloan: It's that time of year again! Time for our holiday get together. Mark your calendars for December 10th from 4:30 to 6:30pm at the Hilton. Get dressed up in the spirit of the season and come join your friends to celebrate the holidays!

• SBRR Holiday Break **NO practice AM or PM from Dec 17th through Dec 31st. Breaks are invaluable to all of us so this applies to most of us....certainly all folks who raced CIM!...all easy days and strides for two weeks then come back to practice refreshed and ready to have a great 2024 with health, fitness and fast times for all!

See you all tomorrow at Handlebar Coffee on Canon Perdido 6:30am!

Rusty and Mike

Saturday 12/2/23 Good Luck to at Cal Int'l Marathoners!!

Good Luck Jill, Roy, Stacey, Kelsey, Karlyn, Christina, Chelsea, Jamie, Maggie, Erin and MARGO!!

Saturday 12/2 at Night Lizard Brewing 8pm to 10pm our very own SUNKISSED will be performing!

HOLIDAY NOTICE from Jim Sloan:

It's that time of year again! Time for our holiday get together. Mark your calendars for December 10th from 4:30 to 6:30pm at the Hilton. Get dressed up in the spirit of the season and come join your friends to celebrate the holidays.

See everyone else at the Goleta Beach parking Lot tomorrow at 6:30am! We will warm up to More Mesa (~2miles) and workout there.

Rusty/Mike

Saturday 11/25

 Hi Everyone,

Good luck to Santa Barbara High boys at the state meet tomorrow!  8 days out from CIM, we will be meeting at 6:30 am at Ledbetter beach.  Marathoners- we will walk up to lazy acres to start the marathon pace section at 6:30

Hope to see you all there

Rusty/Mike

Saturday 11/18/23

 Hi Everyone,

2 weeks until CIM! We will be meeting at 6:30am at Foothill School. 

Ps. It’s Mike and Ricky Ho’s Birthday tomorrow..feel free to embarrass them and sing HB!

Rusty/Mike

Saturday 11/11

 Hi Everyone,

3 weeks until CIM, we will be meeting at 6:30 at Dos Pueblos High School.  See you all there

Rusty/Mike

Saturday 11/4/23

Good luck to John Sim and Jana Mckee who are racing the NYC Marathon Sunday! Good luck to everyone racing the Santa Barbara Half Sunday!

Cal Int'l Marathon 4 weeks to go!

See you all at the Vieja Valley Elementary School tomorrow at 6:30am

Rusty/Mike

Running Buddies Needed! (Sunday at the SB Half 5K)

 From SBRA...a fun a great opportunity to help our youth!

Be a Running Buddy for SBRA Youth Runner! This Sunday SB Half 5K Race warm ups 8:10, race starts 8:30. Email JGP@sbrunning.org to sign up to run a young runner (all levels) and your entry is free when you run with one of our kids!

Saturday 10/28/23

Hi, 

Anyone interested in Great live music and/or pre workout carbo load, Sunkissed is playing at the Night Lizard Brewery, 607 State Street TONIGHT 7-9pm! They'd love to see you (Kerry, Lynette and Laura)

We are one week away from the SB Half Marathon and the NYC Marathon and 5 weeks away from the Cal Int'l Marathon. We will be meeting at Shoreline cafe tomorrow at 6:30am.

Half marathoners will run one 3.5mile loop at above 90% effort (above threshold effort). Cal Int'l marathoners will run two full loops and then down to Milpas and back a mile for 10miles.

see the map below:

See you tomorrow!

Mike/Rusty

Link to summit for danny

 https://summitfordanny.org/register/santa-barbara-team.php

Hi everyone,

Above is a link to register for Summit for Danny.  It takes place Saturday, after practice all SBRR are invited to attend as part of Patty’s team

10/21/23 2 weeks to the SB Half Marathon and New York City Marathon, 6 weeks to Cal Int'l Marathon

 Hi, Both Mike and Rusty are out of town this week. We will be meeting at the Foothill Elementary School and the workout loop is below. Click on it to enlarge it and please take a close look. We have done this one before. It's 2.75miles.

workout: 40min jog, strides x 5, then......

Workout for the NYCity Marathoners AND the Cal Int'l Marathoners is 3 continuous loops (~8:25mi) at Marathon Goal Pace.

Workout for SB Half Marathoners and Everyone else: 2x1 loop with 5min jog between them.  First loop at half marathon Goal Pace, 5min jog, then second loop 10-15sec/mi faster. 

Good luck and see you Tuesday!

Mike and Rusty