Red Letter Relay

Red Letter Festival Relay Run 2010 Information

2010-08-21T13:37:00.007-05:00

Dear Red Letter Relay 2010 Runners:

The following information is very important so please pay attention, read all of it, and contact me (Jim Ellis) if you have any questions. My e-mail is jimdonaldellis@gmail.com

On Saturday August 28, the Red Letter Relay will be happening. 59 miles of running. This year, there are over 20 runners participating.

Info about why we run:

-The purpose of this relay run, is to help raise awareness against homelessness, poverty and domestic violence in Northwest Iowa. And to raise money for "The Bridge" in Orange City, a transitional house for women and children in difficult life circumstances.

-So, we get to run. Using our gift of running to help raise awareness & money.

-To Raise Awareness: Tell people you know that you are running, why you are running and what you are running for. Do something creative.

-To Raise Money: Each runner needs to get 5 sponsors. Contact 5 people, let them know what you are doing, and if they would like to sponsor you. Have them write checks out to "The Bridge." Collect it and get it to me before the run, or day of the run.

Info about the run:

-The relay begins in Sioux City, Iowa and ends in Orange City, Iowa. It is a 59 mile road course, going through Lawton, Moville, Kingsley, Remsen, Oyens, Carnes.

-The relay is currently slotted and scheduled at a 10-minute-mile-per-hour pace. You personally don't have to follow that pace, but realize if you run too fast you might have to wait for the next person to show up for the next leg of the relay.

-Know the course. Know your starting and stopping points in the relay (more info about your specific points below).

-Before the race, look up your starting and stopping points on google maps. (more info below).

-On the day of the race each person's starting and stopping points will be marked with bright colored lawn flags on the side of the course (even if those flags are removed, it is your responsible to know your starting and stopping points). We will also try to have helpers be at the starting and stopping points.

-Be at your starting point at least 30 minutes before your slotted time.

-Drive to your starting spot. If you drive yourself, we will be able to drive your car behind you as you run, so when you are done running, you can jump back in your car.

-We will be passing a baton of some kind.

-Most importantly, be safe and careful. Wear bright clothing so drivers can see you. During the entire course, there will always be a vehicle with flashing lights behind you to provide a more safe run.

Relay Map & Schedule

Click here to see map

KEY:

Runner Name. Points on Google Map. Miles. Estimated start time - stop time.

Begin @ Sunnybrook Community Church (5601 Sunnybrook Dr. Sioux City, IA 51106).

Lisa Ryan: A-B. Miles 1 - 5. 5:00am - 5:50am.

Brock Jensen: B-C. Miles 6-7. 5:50am - 6:10am

Jim Ellis: C-D. Miles 8-9. 6:10am - 6:30am

JT Thomas: D-E. Miles 10-14. 6:30am - 7:20am

Paul Peterson: E-F. Miles 15-16. 7:20am - 7:40am
Micah Gitlin: F-G. Miles 17-18. 7:40am - 8:00am
Bob Johnson: G-H. Miles 19-22. 8:00am - 8:40am
Danny Dekker: H-I. Miles 23-24. 8:40am - 9:00am
Chris White: I-J. Miles 25-28. 9:00am - 9:40am
Ryan Anderson: J-K. Miles 29:39. 9:40am - 11:30am
Mike Henry: K-L. Miles 40-41. 11:30am - 11:50am

Tiffany Touney: L-M. Miles 42-44. 11:50am - 12:20pm

Magdalene Landegent: M-N. Miles 45-47. 12:20pm - 12:50pm

Titus Landegent: N-O. Miles 48. 12:50pm - 1:00pm

Gabe Luse: O-P. Miles 49-50. 1:00pm - 1:20pm

Alisha Weller: P-Q. Mile 51. 1:20pm - 1:30pm

_____________ : Q-R. Miles 52-53. 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Lisa Thevdt: R-S. Miles 54 - 55. 1:50pm - 2:10pm

Greta Floding: S-T. Miles 56-57. 2:10pm - 2:30pm

Isaac Hendricks: T-U. Mile 58. 2:30pm - 2:40pm

EVERYONE: U-V. Mile 59. Meet at 3:00pm. Everyone gather in Hardees parking lot, and then run as a large group to the Windmill Park. This is a lot of fun. Tell everyone you know.

End @ Windmill Park, Orange City Iowa.

Click here to see map

Any questions: contact Jim Ellis at jimdonaldellis@gmail.com

Feel free to join us for the Red Letter Festival afterwards from 4:00 - 10:00pm in the Windmill Park of Orange City. Free Food & Great Music.

Also, I have Red Letter Runner T-Shirts to give you. You can pick them up before your run, or after. Let me know.

What a blessing it is to run with you. Feel free to bring a friend to join you.

Jim Ellis

Red Letter Festival Relay Run 2010

2010-08-08T20:15:00.023-05:00

The Red Letter Festival Relay Run is a 59-mile run broken up into 1-mile increments. We will be running from Sioux City to the Red Letter Festival in Orange City on the morning of Sat. August 28th 2010. You can sign up for 1-mile increments. If you wish to sign up for multiple 1-mile increments, let us know. We will be carrying some kind of baton or torch to the festival, so get excited.

HOW TO SIGN UP for the Red Letter Festival Run Relay:

Step 1 : Look below for a mile that doesn't have a name next to it.

Step 2: E-mail jimdonaldellis@gmail.com to let Jim know what mileage you wish to run. Send your top three picks.

Step 3: Jim will confirm your participation by replying to your e-mail and then will update this blog page. Also, more info will be sent to you with exact location and how to meet up with runners on the route.

Step 4: On Sat. August 28th show up to your assigned location.

Start @ Sunnybrook Community Church.
End @ Windmill Park, Orange City Iowa.

Relay Route Map: http://tinyurl.com/red-letter-run-relay

NOTE: all noted times are subject to change due to different running speeds and conditions.

5:00am - 6:00am (start at Sunnybrook Community Church)
0 - JT Thomas
1 - JT Thomas
2 - JT Thomas
3 - JT Thomas
4 - JT Thomas
5 - JT Thomas
6 - Brock Jensen

6:00am - 7:00am
7 - Brock Jensen
8 - Jim Ellis (Lawton, IA)
9 - Jim Ellis
10 - Lisa Ryan
11 - Lisa Ryan
12 - Lisa Ryan

7:00am - 8:00am
13 - Lisa Ryan
14 - Lisa Ryan
15 - Paul Peterson (Moville, IA)
16 - Paul Peterson
17 - Micah Gitlin
18 - Micah Gitlin

8:00am - 9:00am
19 - Bob Johnson
20 - Bob Johnson
21 - Bob Johnson
22 - Bob Johnson
23 - Danny Dekker
24 - Danny Dekker (Kingsley, IA)

9:00am - 10:00am
25 - Chris White
26 - Chris White
27 - Chris White
28 - Chris White
29 - Ryan Anderson
30 - Ryan Anderson

10:00am - 11:00am
31 - Ryan Anderson
32 - Ryan Anderson
33 - Ryan Anderson
34 - Ryan Anderson
35 - Ryan Anderson
36 - Ryan Anderson

11:00am - Noon
37 - Ryan Anderson
38 - Ryan Anderson
39 - Ryan Anderson
40 - Mike Henry (Remsen, IA)
41 - Mike Henry
42 - Tiffany Touney

Noon - 1:00pm
43 - Tiffany Touney
44 - Tiffany Touney
45 - Magdaelene Landegent (Oyens, IA)
46 - Magdaelene Landegent
47 - Magdaelene Landegent
48 - Titus Landegent

1:00pm - 2:00pm
49 - Gabe Luse
50 - Gabe Luse
51 - Alisha Weller
52 - Jim Ellis
53 - Jim Ellis
54 - Lisa Thvedt (Carnes, IA)

2:00pm - 3:00pm
55 - Lisa Thvedt
56 - Greta Floding
57 - Greta Floding
58 - Isaac Hendricks (Orange City, IA)
59 - Gather in parking lot of Hardees, and then run as a large group to the Windmill Park.

End @ Windmill Park, Orange City Iowa.

Any questions: contact Jim Ellis at jimdonaldellis@gmail.com

my knees hurt

2009-03-14T00:59:00.001-05:00

i ran for 2.5 hours today...

my knees hurt still...

i ran yesterday too, and plan on running tomorrow as well.

i found this article on line http://www.kmeg.com/Global/story.asp?s=8089855

2009-02-18T22:48:00.002-06:00

i ran 7 miles with Ethan Raysby...

my knees hurt...

we had some good conversations...

i still don't know if i am going to be able to run 61.05 miles this year...

2009-02-13T08:36:00.000-06:00

i ran 10 miles today...

my knees hurt... but it was a good run...

Red Letter Run VLOG 2.10.2009

2009-02-10T22:45:00.000-06:00

my run with luke

Red Letter Run VLOG 2.06.2009

2009-02-06T13:07:00.000-06:00

Red Letter Run V LOG 1.30.2009

2009-01-30T11:18:00.001-06:00

1.23.2009 Red Letter Run Vlog

2009-01-23T12:41:00.001-06:00

top 10 update

2009-01-15T22:03:00.004-06:00

top 10 update

walked to work the last two weeks. it was cold.
beat Christ Ver Steeg in ping pong (my record is 1-75).
have been listening to the band "she&him" a lot.
will be moving out of my apartment at the end of February. going to move into a house with Justin & Nathan.
started a series on the 10 commandments in youth group.
reading the book called "better off." a present from my brother.
finished playing a 26 game nba season on sega genesis with my roomie. we won the championship.
watched the new episode of the office tonight. am happy it is back on.
am going to try to get caught up on LOST. only 5 episodes behind.
i will run the red letter run the last weekend in march.

blessings...

It's Official

2009-01-10T19:32:00.001-06:00

It is official...

THE RED LETTER RUN will take place this year on March 28th 2009....

I am so excited...

This year we are allowing runners to run for their own non-profit organization...

More information is coming, but get the word out and get excited...

Yours truly,

Jim Ellis

end of the race

2008-03-30T22:36:00.001-05:00

oh yeah,
thanks for stopping us nate.
i was sick of running anyways

finished

2008-03-30T22:29:00.002-05:00

i had a great birthday spending it with great people.
my legs were not happy at the end of the day, but it feels good to have completed something so big for me.
jim, thanks for being such a great friend.
i look forward to running with you in the future....the long and distant future.

2nd Annual Red Letter Run

2008-03-30T14:27:00.003-05:00

We finished the 2nd ever Red Letter Run.

It included 61.05 miles of running/walking...

Being stopped by the cops 3 times...

A guy in a bunny suit riding a bike...

2 News stations competing for coverage of the run...

8 drivers...

And over 20 runnners...

2 runners completed the whole race... Loren Mulder and Jim Ellis... Bob Johnson ran over 34 miles... plus it was his birthday... He spent his whole birthday running...

It was an awesome event, and we look forward to doing it next year... Start telling people about it...

God bless...

pictures will be coming soon...

101 year old marathon runner

2008-03-07T08:49:00.001-06:00

"LONDON - Already Britain’s oldest employee, 101-year-old Buster Martin now aims to become the world’s oldest marathon runner by completing the London Marathon and celebrating with a pint of beer and a cigarette."

Full story click here ---> http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=britmarathon030508&prov=reuters&type=lgns

28 days away

2008-03-01T23:12:00.001-06:00

The Red Letter Run is only 28 days away (March 29th - beginning at 3:30am - mark it in your calendar - the schedule is on the group page or at www.redletterrun.blogspot.com)

SHIRTS: We have some really cool designed T-Shirts being made. Get excited about them.

PLEDGE: We have pledge forms for the Run. If you want to run and raise some money through pledges, EMAIL Jim at jamese@nwciowa.edu and he will e-mail you the pledge form.

SIGNS: Be a sign hanger upper person. If you want some signs to hang up, contact Jim at jamese@nwciowa.edu

INVITE: Invite runners, friends, moms, brothers, ex-boyfriends, best friends, random people, that one guy, summer camp people, people you don't really know, anybody with a name, boys and girls to our FACEBOOK GROUP.

FORWARD: Forward on this link to anyone whom you think might run, or be interested in helping out with the Red Letter Run. www.redletterrun.blogspot.com

HELP: We still need drivers, runners, bikers and creative people to help out with the run. Contact Jim at jamese@nwciowa.edu

EXCITEMENT: Bob, Bill and Jim are getting way excited about the run. 61.05 miles is a long ways, but with your help and your support we will be able to do it (Maybe :) ).

Thanks for everything,

The Red Letter Runners

Long Distance

2008-02-25T12:43:00.003-06:00

I don't know when are how I got into running. Maybe it was something connected to my passion for soccer.

I know that I can remember running laps around the track after school when I was in 7th grade.

Beginning of my senior year, I told someone I wanted to run a marathon, they said, "Yeah right, that is impossible."

May of my senior year, I ran my first marathon. I got 430th place our of 937 people. http://www.lincolnrun.org/lm-f-02.htm . I won my division and they sent me a trophy.

My Sophomore year of college, my friend Cope wanted to run a marathon. We ran one. We ran it together. He got 267th place. I got 268th place. http://www.lincolnrun.org/lm-f-04.htm

Last year I decided 1.5 weeks before the Red Letter Festival to run to the Red Letter Festival from where I lived (Kingsley 32 miles away). We called it the Red Letter Run. I got 1st place.

A couple weeks after that, my gramps was diagnosed with Terminal Brain Cancer, I went home to Denver. While I was there, I ran in the Colfax Marathon (for my gramps). I got 184th place out of 449 people. http://www.onlineraceresults.com/race/view_race.php

This March, I will be running 61.05 miles. The most I will have ever run in one period of time.

I don't know where I got the desire to run long distances, I never ran cross-country or track in high school. I love it, and will continue to do it till I die.

I think running is God's way of calming people down, and to get them out into his beautiful creation.

Get out and run!!!

2008-02-24T22:32:00.002-06:00

I have contacted Briar Cliff, Northwestern, Dordt and Morningside about the run.

I am getting up tomorrow to run. Boo-ya.

I just bought Jimmy Eat World tickets. I listen to Jimmy Eat World when I run.

Doctor Visit - Ice Cold Baths - Good i Shuffle Mixes

2008-02-19T21:35:00.000-06:00

This morning I had a doctor visit for my leg.

I was late by thirty minutes, cause I couldn't find the office.

The visit was wonderful. The Doctor massaged my leg, used some weird contraptions on my leg.

I ran this evening, in the dark (full moon), three miles. After the run, I made an ice bath out of our bath tub I have never used before & snow from outside. It was really cold.

I recently found my iPOD shuffle, and it has been playing me some glorious music.

Gettin' Ready For the Run

2008-02-19T08:22:00.002-06:00

The word has been gettin' out about the run, which is great.

I hate Iowa's bitter weather. I was going to run this morning, but realized it was -5 degrees. I quickly retreated back indoors.

Oh the joys of running in Iowa.

The run is only a 1.5 months away...

I will get a counter thingy... counter thingys are cool..

Have a wonderful day,

Jim

Healing My Hami

2008-02-06T12:26:00.001-06:00

I haven't ran in a while. My hamstring has been hurtin', so I have been taking some time off...

I am still planning on doing the run, however, it might be more like a "crawl" or "roll."

Hope all is well...

And Bob, you cannot use my new shoes.

question

2008-01-27T13:32:00.003-06:00

jim. can i use your new shews and your new ipod for running since you don't run anymore?

jim. the youth pastor

2008-01-27T13:29:00.000-06:00

stupid. jim like electronics more than actual people. stupid

BOB vs. Chester McSmith

2008-01-12T12:08:00.000-06:00

Yesterday Bob and I woke up around 7:20am. Early for him. Early for me. We ran the back roads to Alton. We ran to the Okay Cafe. I ate 2 eggs and some toast. Bob got mad at me cause on our run I jokingly said, "My iPOD is cooler than you. It entertains me with videos and music."

He then proceeded to act trying to prove that he was more entertaining than the iPOD. The iPOD won. Bob, no hard feelings hopefully.

Bob 0 - iPOD 1

I named my iPOD "Chester McSmith." I didn't want to name it "Jim's iPOD."

Bob 0 - Chester McSmith 1

Gettin' the Word Out

2008-01-10T19:22:00.000-06:00

We have started to get the word out about our run coming up this spring... people are starting to want to help out... It is way exciting seeing everything come together...

My new shoes are doing great..... they sync up to my nano ipod, and it is way cool...

bob and i are running to the okay cafe tomorrow... peace!!!

New Running Shoes

2008-01-04T16:40:00.000-06:00

I went and bought new running shoes today.

I have been running in the same ol' addidas for awhile... and as you can see from the pictures below I needed new running shoes.

some of the tread falling off my old shoes.

bottoms of my addidas

new shoes (above)

Old Shoes (above)

(new shoe & old shoe)

and did I mention that I also bought an iPOD and the iPOD runner thingy that hooks up to the iPOD to help hook the iPOD hook to my shoes. I am excited to try it out.

I haven't been running

2008-01-03T13:48:00.000-06:00

I haven't been running for about two weeks. I keep seeming to irritate my hamstring, and it doesn't ever feel like it's getting any better.

not running in the snow

2007-12-20T18:16:00.000-06:00

it's so much easier to run on solid ground in warm weather. running has been going well so far in cali. just finished my 8 mile run that was scheduled for yesterday. it went well. ran it in about an hour, i notice that i can run faster when there are no hills either. i suggest that we move our 60 mile run to somewhere that is flat.

oh yeah, and the picture of me without a shirt. i'm sorry if my whitness blinds you

No Shirt Bob

2007-12-19T11:46:00.000-06:00

Last Weekend, Bill Bob and I filmed a short video for the Red Letter Run (it will be on you tube soon)

After we filmed, Bill didn't want to run with us because his Dad was sick.

Bob and I ran the 11 miles we were supposed to run. After our run, Bob took a shower in his dorm, and then we were supposed to go to the apartments (across campus). Bob didn't want to put back on his sweaty clothes. So here is my picture of Bob walking in 9 degree Iowan weather. I find it to be an amusing picture, I know Bob will hate it.

8 mile miss

2007-12-18T12:26:00.000-06:00

Today I was supposed to run 8 miles.

My quad started hurting yesterday during my 3 mile run. I think it was because of the 11 mile run on Friday and the 7 mile run on Saturday, and then the rollerskating I did on Sunday.

So i am going to take the next two runs off.

RED LETTER RUN

2007-11-25T17:01:00.001-06:00

Hey Bob and Bill...

here is our blog page to tell each other what we ran, how fast, what it was like...