jobrew

Hey Drick I'm running the firecracker in Hales corners as well. My wife grew up there so it's a yearly ritual for us. We have a big group who run in honor of my father in law. We all wear shirts with team Leonard on the back. I still swear by the nike free shoes and don't think I could ever run in normal shoes again. Glad to hear you kept running and good luck on Monday.

Congrats on getting into running. I've been running fun runs and longer races for about 10 years now. My favorite run is Crazy Legs in Madison. It is run through the campus and ends on the 50 yard line at Camp Randall. The race is 5 miles and usually is the last weekend in April. I also competed in the mens health urbanathalon in Chicago this last October. What a blast. 10 miles with some ridiculous obstacles mixed in the course (1 mile of the run was running stairs at soldier field). Check out the website for the course description. I have bad knees and have always had trouble with shoes. In May I started using the nike free v.3. It is considered a barefoot style running shoe and is the greatest thing I have invested in. I can run longer and more comfortably than ever before and have noticed that my ankles are stronger than they used to be. It took a couple weeks of running with them to get used to the feel but now I can't run in normal shoes. They sell them in v. 3, 5, 7 with the 3 being the closest to barefoot and each level adding more support as you go up. I have a pair of the 5's but they aren't as comfortable to me as the 3's. Hope this helps.

If you go to the Nitty Gritty right down from the Kohl Center before the game there are always people trying to sell tickets there. Just tell the folks at the bar your looking for tickets and when someone comes in looking to sell they will send them your direction. I have always gotten tickets and you don't have to stand in the cold looking for the right scalper. The other place to try is badgernation.com they have a ticket exchange forum where you can usually find tickets for any game. Since it's a fan forum they usually are sold for face value but again big games may require a little more cash. Hope this helps.

We found a great way to rid the little ones of the nuk. We have two little ones and with both of them we took the nuk to build a bear and had them pick out whatever bear or other animal they wanted. Then when they stuffed the bear we had them place the nuk inside the bear. This way they still had their nuk by them they just couldn't put it in their mouths. We kept telling them that if they missed their nuk just hug their bear and it would be right there. They can also feel it inside the bear so it's reassuring to them that it is still there. Hope this helps...I know how hard this whole process can be.