Reach the Beach Part 1: Pre-Relay
In case you missed last Wednesday’s announcement about participating in the Reach the Beach Relay as a member of the New Balance media team, you can read it here!
Oh. Man. Recapping the events of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday is going to take 2-3 posts, and I don’t know if I’ll get through it all this week, but I’ll try! So Thursday morning after a quick 30-minute solo spin session, I headed over to the hotel to meet the other eleven bloggers/members of Team Pumped Up Kicks:
- Allie of VITA
- Marissa of Barefoot Colorado
- Melissa of So These Are My Thirties
- Melissa of The Valentine RD (She wrote a GREAT post about the team here.)
- Lorraine of Run, Wifey, Run
- Theodora of Preppy Runner
- Christine of Love, Life, Surf
- Jess of Race Pace Jess
- Gia & Carrie of Run, Gia, Run
- Melissa of FitnessNYC (Yes there were three Melissas and a Marissa on our team.)
I was a bit nervous at first because the only team members I’d already met were Christine (at the Fitness Magazine Meet & Tweet) and Theodora (at various events). But many of the other girls were in that same situation, and bloggers are certainly good at being friendly and making new friends! It didn’t take long at all to feel comfortable around everyone, especially the fellow members of Van 2 (my van).