Raised $22,363.00

Sunbelt Marketing's "Team Plumb Crazy" raised $22,363.00 in donations for the American Cancer Society. We completed the relay in 28 hours and 17 minutes.

Next Years goal is to raise over $30,000.00.


Thanks to everyone that supported us!

Team Plumb Crazy

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I came up to Portland this weekend to run my individual leg assignments and to drive as much of the course as possible.

Thursday afternoon's storms in Atlanta pushed my flight back by more than two hours, so I arrived in Portland around 9:00 p.m. I had hoped to get a run in that evening and do a little walking around town, but after settling in and grabbing a late night dinner, I was spent.

Friday morning bright and early (actually it was misting, drizzling, raining and then pouring) I headed up to Mt. Hood, stopping around exchange #3 on Hwy 26. I spent the better part of the morning trying to drive and navigate mountain roads- following the directions from the HTC handbook was not easy, and by the time I made it to my first leg (#9) I lost track of the number of u-turns I made (but I think it was in the triple digits).

After much confusion I finally found the start of leg #9.
I will spare you the drawn out details (for now) but it was NOT a fun run, and having to turn around and walk back another 7 miles in the cold rain just added insult to injury.

I drove out through leg #13, which put me back into Portland and just blocks from the hotel.

Saturday morning I headed out to the Nike campus.
If anyone wonders why we have to pay $100+ for running shoes, and $45 for a pair of shorts, one look around the campus will answer your question. (I have a couple pictures I will send later.) Tiger Woods is paid very well from Nike.

Our start time is Friday at 2:30 p.m.
HTC projects our estimated running time at 28:48:21

I think David has already plugged in the individual legs into his spreadsheet to project start times for each leg assignment.

I ran my second leg this afternoon (#21) just after the Captain's meeting at Nike.
It wasn't that bad, but the people I spoke with warned me about all the dust that gets stirred up from the vans. We'll see.

Much more to tell you guys when I get back.
This is going to be a challenge, but I know everyone is up to it.
We're going to have a blast! One thing is very clear, however.
We won't be sailing through it.

Go Team Plumb Crazy!!!!!

David Jones - 7/1

I was very disappointed with my run on Sunday so I thought I would try again last night. I waited until about 8:15 when it cooled off some and tried my 8 mile course again. This time I felt great. No trouble at all. I did it in probably my best time yet for that route, 1:10:17. Nice to know I can still go 8 miles. Just not in the heat of the day. Still got to do a lot of heat training i guess.

David Jones - 06/30/08

I haven't done a long run in several weeks so I thought I would try to do 8 yesterday. I went out at about 3:30 and it was hot. I was hurting after about 6 miles. I had to walk a couple of times and all I could manage was about 7-1/2 miles. Time was 1:06:43. 7 weeks to race time and I am feeling slow. Going to have to really push it these final weeks.

David Jones - 06/26

5 miles on the Silver Comet trail this morning. I think I'll sleep in tomorrow and save up for a long run on Sunday.

David Jones - 06/25

The US Army 10K must have worn me down. I have been sick ever since the race. I haven't run for a week. I am back in now. I have started running in the morning now. I hit the Silver Comet Trail yesterday and today at about 4:45 am and ran for 42 minutes. I figure it was about 5 miles. Felt good running in the cool morning. 8 weeks to Hood to Coast.

David Jones - 6/14 US Army Hooah 10K

Saturday June 14th. US Army Hooah 10K Race Day. Team Plumb Crazy put in a great performace today. Congratulations to everybody on some great race times. There were quite a few personal best 10K times today. Hope everyone had a good time today. I thought that was a pretty good course. I did better this year because I remembered how far you had to go once you got on the army base and didn't push to hars as soon as we got on base. I paced myself pretty good and finished with a personal best 10K time of 50:20. I did get passed by the baby stroller at around mile 4 though. I am not sure how Tom and Robb and Nelson did, they were too far ahead of me to see. They were up front trying to catch those green sweatsuit guys. Their times were in the mid 40's I think. John and Don had personal best times of around 55 and 56 minutes I believe. John might have been a little faster if he wasn't fighting with his IPOD. Richard and Jody were making a strong showing just behind them in about 58 and 59 minutes. More PB times I think. Tim's son was next and first in his age group. Tim came in about 1 hr 4 minutes (or somewhere around there) Next came Austin, wearing those Dawg colors proudly. Not sure of the time but not too far from Tim. All in all a great showing by Team Plumb Crazy. I think we are all pretty well prepared for Hood To Coast.

After the race I got the family together, made some PB & J sandwiches and headed for the pool. A pretty good way to spend the day after the race. Had a couple of Mike's Hard Lemonades. That hit the spot. I did manage to get in another 4 mile run in at about 4:00. Felt good running but it was super hot and muggy. Not sure if I could go another 6 or 7 miles again tonight in the middle of the night. Still have some work to do. Here is a picture of before the race. I don't think we all looked so good six miles later.

Good job today everybody. Keep it up.