Summer can be such a busy time, the competition season is in full swing, and there are plenty of commitments filling up everyone’s calendars. With so much going on, it’s understandable that timely mileage submittals can be harder to manage. I see this pattern in the EDRA in Motion Challenge almost every year, and June through August are typically our lowest mileage months.
In some cases, with those participants who do submit, share key highlights of their lives through their submittals, so I’d be remiss if I didn’t congratulate Tyler Haddenham’s recent wedding (son of AJ and Holly Haddenham). And my recollection is that Girod household also had a recent wedding, but for the life of me, I couldn’t find anything in Bonnie’s submittals. Maybe it is happening in July? Or I’ve totally lost my brain again?
And speaking of losing my brain – or at a minimum my visual acuity, last month I teased Guy (via the monthly commentary) about moving from Weight Class 2 to Weight Class 3. Boy, did I get that wrong! When I saw him at Diamond in the Rough, I realized I had things backwards! He went from Weight Class 3 to 2 – and I can truly attest that he has indeed lost a significant amount of weight!
June did provide some fun highlights:
- Kudos to Hannah Armstrong who doubled her miles in June. She is definitely within striking distance of a completion award! (And thank you Hannah – to you, your father, and brother who volunteered at Diamond in the Rough.)
- Katie Poe has had five straight months with more than 100 miles!
- Sandy Cheek has hit over 150 miles in every month but one!
- Kendall Ingraham, Beth Meenaghan, Katie Dixon, Teresa Dixon, Wendy Friedrich, Carol Giles, Holly Haddenham, and others have been consistently submitting and haven’t missed a month!
- Bonnie Girod has had six consecutive months with more than 100 miles, as has AJ Haddenham and me!
- Marlene Poe hit a highest mileage month in June with almost 250 miles!
I hope that life balances out for more of you – giving you a bit of free time come August (when your July miles are due). 😊
All the best my friends,
Sue