Grove Movers http://grovemovers.com Team World Vision at the Grove Community Church Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:59:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Official Training Season Starts http://grovemovers.com/official-training-season-starts/ http://grovemovers.com/official-training-season-starts/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:59:18 +0000 Admin http://grovemovers.com/?p=706

This Saturday, our first official group training, is a practice 5k at Orange Terrace Park. You might want to switch Thursday and Saturday (according to the training plan) and do 3 miles hard on Saturday and move the 4 mile long training to Thursday.

Saturday details: Meet at the parking lot at the corner of Deercreek and Grove Community Drive at 7am. That’s right. 7am meet time. We’ll announcements and updates at 7am, take an official 2013 “First Day” team photo at about 7:20, then do our warmups, TWV team clap, and pray. Gun time will be right at 7:30am for the practice 5k.

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  • Orangecrest Location: aka “Crush the Crest” group
  • Two times: 5:30am and 7:30am
  • Meet us at the corner of Grove Community Drive and Trautwein.  We’ll warm up, give some fundraising tips and updates, encourage you, pray, then run and walk together.
    • Downtown Riverside Location: aka “Downtown Get-down” group
    • Time: 6:30am
    • Meet us at the corner of Market and 3rd (in the Starbucks parking lot).  We’ll warm up, give some fundraising tips and updates, encourage you, pray, then run and walk together

     

    Join us!

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/trainings/feed/ 0     Three Key Questions http://grovemovers.com/three-key-questions/ http://grovemovers.com/three-key-questions/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:55:38 +0000 Admin http://grovemovers.com/?p=693 This week I had a former cross country runner from King HS contact me. He’s off to college but wants to do the LA 13.1 with us in January. He had some great questions. Here are my answers (share with friends who are curious):

    How do I join?
    It’s really easy to join. Go here and join the team: http://support.worldvision.org/site/TR/TeamWorldVision/TeamWorldVision?team_id=41570&pg=team&fr_id=1820

    How do I fundraise?
    When you join the team, you get set up with a personal fundraising page and you can share that link easily on Facebook or through email. You don’t have to raise a certain amount of money but they give you a target of $50 per mile you run. So for the 13.1, the target is $655. Some of our team members make that and some don’t. There’s no penalty.

    What does it cost?
    It’s free to register with Team World Vision; however there is a race registration fee that you pay through the LA 13.1 organization. Make sure you use the discount code TWV provides and your registration should only be $60, even when race fees go up as we get closer to the event.

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/three-key-questions/feed/ 0     Week 2 Pre-training! http://grovemovers.com/week-2-pre-training/ http://grovemovers.com/week-2-pre-training/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:47:36 +0000 Admin http://grovemovers.com/?p=690

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/week-2-pre-training/feed/ 0     Want to Share with a Friend Easily! http://grovemovers.com/want-to-share-with-a-friend-easily/ http://grovemovers.com/want-to-share-with-a-friend-easily/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:57:56 +0000 Admin http://grovemovers.com/?p=644 Send them this link!

    http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=ade8f0276294344abab89e09a&id=eebb0ae6b6

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/want-to-share-with-a-friend-easily/feed/ 0     Step It UP http://grovemovers.com/step-it-up/ http://grovemovers.com/step-it-up/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:40:03 +0000 Carlos http://grovemovers.com/?p=639 Grove Movers, it is time to STEP IT UP and get moving. If your planning a work out at a specific place and time, post it here. Don’t let the summer heat keep you indoors. Early mornings are still cool and the evenings cool off quickly. Step it up a notch one step at a time.
    Check out our Facebook page for info.

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/step-it-up/feed/ 0     Walk For Water 4/28 http://grovemovers.com/walk-for-water-428/ http://grovemovers.com/walk-for-water-428/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:35:37 +0000 Carlos http://grovemovers.com/?p=608 Be Part of the Solution

    Proceeds from our Walk for Water will benefit our efforts to drill wells for clean water in Uganda and our 2012 Grove Treks, including our team traveling to Uganda in July to see the results of our partnership.

    Party!

    Invite your friends, family, and neighbors to walk with you. After the walk we’ll have demonstration booths from World Vision, lunch to purchase, and gifts and prizes for your donations.

    http://www.thegrove.cc/outreach/walk_for_water.php

    7:30 a.m. Check-in opens
    8:30 a.m. Check–in closes
    9:00 a.m. Walk begins
    11:30 a.m Awards ceremony

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/walk-for-water-428/feed/ 0     Hike Sycamore Canyon 3/31 8am http://grovemovers.com/hike-sycamore-canyon-331-8am/ http://grovemovers.com/hike-sycamore-canyon-331-8am/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:41:41 +0000 Carlos http://grovemovers.com/?p=605 Bring friends, the family and dog.  If you are already in shape put on a backpack or weight vest. Don’t forget water and snacks.

    Parking is on Barton, north of Barton/Alassandro. The nearest Address is 1000 East Alessandro Boulevard, Riverside, CA 92508 It is the Storage Unit that is right in front of the opening to Wilderness park.

    We start hiking at 8am.

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/hike-sycamore-canyon-331-8am/feed/ 0     Race Report: LA Marathon http://grovemovers.com/race-report-la-marathon/ http://grovemovers.com/race-report-la-marathon/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:37:53 +0000 Admin http://grovemovers.com/?p=600 What a beautiful day it was yesterday. Our marathon team consisted of:

    Wes Kriesel
    Daniel Lopez Jr
    Arthur Mistretta
    Denise Miller
    Christal Pennington
    Timothy Potts
    Angel Rodriguez
    Angela Anguiano Lujan
    Patricia Rodriguez
    Ashley Stacy
    Pablo Nolasco
    Ryan Rasmussen
    Sheila Valles (2-person charity team relay)
    Amanda Lopez (2-person charity team relay)

    We had a few others sign up who ended up not running due to injury or not feeling prepared. 14 marathoners, up from 3 last year is pretty good. Our fundraising total for the marathon team is currently at $5833.40, which ends up being approximately 20% more raised per fundraising team member than our half-marathon team. The larger the commitment to train and go through pain, the larger the commitment to fundraise, apparently. I’m very proud of the team.

    With our half-marathon team’s total of $38,423.22, together we raised $44,256.62 for clean water in Uganda.

    Our times ranged from 4 hours to 7 hours. We had some amazingly dedicated walkers/joggers who went the marathon route from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica in 6.5 to 7 hours, dedicated to the cause of bringing new life and new hope to Ugandans through clean water.

    As a side note, last year I jogged/walked the LA marathon only in order to meet my fundraising goal for Team World Vision (which I had missed by several hundred dollars at the half-marathon in January), finishing in a time of 5 hours and 44 minutes. A few days after last year’s LA marathon, I knew I wanted to do it again the next year. I spent the year making running a part of my routine, targeting a time of 4 hours. I finished the LA marathon yesterday in 4 hours and 2 seconds.

    The idea of Team World Vision, like the national director Michael Chitwood told us at the team dinner, is an absurd one. The fact that we get to challenge ourselves to a personally fulfilling athletic goal AND reach out and raise support for the poor is an absurd idea. However, that’s exactly the way God works, isn’t it? He never leads us down paths to reach out to the oppressed, poor, less fortunate, hungry, homeless, unreached and unloved in order to bring us down or destroy us; his path to reach out to others only lifts us up and builds us up. With Team World Vision, we all train separately to a large degree but we all fundraise together. This team experience has been a great lesson in the Christian faith. We all are responsible to develop our spiritual health largely individually with devotion time, prayer, and reading the Bible but ultimately, the biggest impact we make comes from being a part of the team, a part of the body of Christ. It’s good to be plugged in at the Grove.

    ]]>     http://grovemovers.com/race-report-la-marathon/feed/ 0     Walk Your Talk Walk – CBU April 7 http://grovemovers.com/gm-3-walk-your-talk-walk/ http://grovemovers.com/gm-3-walk-your-talk-walk/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:37:48 +0000 Carlos http://grovemovers.com/?p=596 April 7: Grove Movers #3 is happening at the Annual Walk Your Talk Walk. We’ll be showing support for youth in foster care and walking from CBU to the the Riverside Plaza where there will be a “foster fair” with games and family activities. Shuttles will provide transportation back to CBU. Register at http://walkyourtalkwalk.info/register ($10 fee to cover costs and raise money to send foster youth to summer camp – includes a T-shirt!!!)

    Meet at CBU at 8am to check in.

    Walk starts at 9am.

    I want to see everyone there!!!

    http://walkyourtalkwalk.info/

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