Race & Relax Beauty: Kristi Cole

With our first Get Moving! Race & Relax event less than two weeks away, we’ve started highlighting some of the lovely participants who will be running or walking and celebrating their accomplishments with us on June 5.

Our next Race & Relax beauty is Kristi Cole. While Kristi does not blog or Twitter, she is a fellow Facebooker, and even more importantly she's Wifey's aunt. We were so excited when we saw that she registered  for the race and we're tickled to introduce her to the Race & Relax crew.

"Hello Fellow “Race & Relax”-ers! I’m a wife, mother of five, a grandmother and I work full time. I enjoy playing tennis, bike riding, walking/jogging. I love the fellowship of family & friends, reading, traveling, music and eating! I’m always looking for a healthy goal to aspire to. I need motivation or I will usually give up when I get bored or don’t see any immediate results. I recently completed a 12 week “Biggest Loser” competition with some co-workers. I was so focused and determined! It was a great way to exercise more than I usually do and to eat right. When I heard the Blogrollers were sponsoring the Race & Relax event, I wanted in! I love their creativity, talent and ability to make things happen! I’ve also been interested in training for a long distance run and this 5k is the perfect introduction. I don’t have much time to blog or twitter; but, I will jump on Facebook when I get a minute or two! Looking forward to meeting you all and enjoying the day together!"'

Thanks, Kristi! We’re so glad to have you and, most importantly, we’re glad that you are moving!

Race & Relax has several wonderful sponsors including The Cherry Marketing Institute, Walt Disney World Resort, The Wine Sisterhood and Pampered By Adrienne. You can learn more about Get Moving! Race & Relax here.

Race & Relax Beauty: Yvette Pollard

With our first Get Moving! Race & Relax event less than two weeks away, we’ve started highlighting some of the lovely participants who will be running or walking and celebrating their accomplishments with us on June 5.

Our next Race & Relax beauty is Yvette Pollard. I’m so excited to share that Yvette launched her first blog last week, Wonder Woman Chronicles, and I invite you all to please stop by and welcome her to the blogosphere! Yvette shared a few words below to introduce herself to the Race & Relax crew.

"Hi all! I'm Yvette Pollard originally from DC but raised in Georgia for most of my life. I am a single mom to 4 awesome kids. Two boys and 2 girls aged 15, 9 and the twins are 7. I am fiercely protective of my kids, as are all parents, but two of my children are Autistic so I am a huge advocate for them and their needs. I am a quasi runner (hard to find the time!), obsessed with tennis and an all around LOST fiend (yes I AM having a problem letting go!!!)."

Thanks, Yvette! We’re so glad to have you, so glad you’ve launched your blog and, most importantly, we’re glad that you are moving!

Race & Relax has several wonderful sponsors including The Cherry Marketing Institute, Walt Disney World Resort, The Wine Sisterhood and Pampered By Adrienne. You can learn more about Get Moving! Race & Relax here.

Race & Relax Beauty: Shannon Pierce

With our first Get Moving! Race & Relax event less than two weeks away, we thought it would be wonderful to highlight some of the lovely participants who will be running or walking and celebrating their accomplishments with us on June 5.

So without further ado our first Race & Relax beauty is Shannon Pierce. Shannon, also know as Shay Shay, blogs at Losing Fat and Winning in Life and shared a few words with us about why she joined the Race & Relax crew.

"I am so excited about Race & Relax! I use to be a self-proclaimed "non-runner," but decided to challenge myself in 2009 to run the ING Half Marathon. While I'm not sure I'll ever do a half marathon again (brutal for Shay Shay, but I can check it off my fitness list-yeah!), I have developed a love for the shorter 5K races. I've challenged myself to do at least one 5K a month. I love 5Ks because I can usually find a few girlfriends to do them with me (not so with half-marathons!). When I heard about Race & Relax I just had to register! This is the perfect event for Shay Shay: 5K (right distance), Brunch (I LOVE Brunch!), Relaxation (who doesn't like to relax?), and hanging with friends and meeting new ones. SWEET!"

Thanks, Shannon! We’re so glad to have you and, most importantly, we’re glad that you are moving!

Race & Relax has several wonderful sponsors including The Cherry Marketing Institute, Walt Disney World Resort, The Wine Sisterhood and Pampered By Adrienne. You can learn more about Get Moving! Race & Relax here.

Welcome Wine Sisterhood: Race & Relax's Newest Sponsor

We are so pleased to welcome the Wine Sisterhood to the party! The Wine Sisterhood has signed on as the exclusive Swag Bag sponsor for Get Moving! Race & Relax. Thanks to them all the participants will enjoy a lovely bag that we are filling with fitness and relaxation goodies!

The Wine Sisterhood joins the Cherry Marketing Institute, Walt Disney World Resort and Pampered by Adrienne as sponsors for this event. We appreciate all of their support in making Race & Relax happen and are super excited for a fabulous event.

We are only one month out from the big day when we will run/walk the 5K. If you are interested in putting something in the Race & Relax Swag Bag, compliments of the Wine Sisterhood, there are still swag sponsorships available. For more information, email theblogrollers@gmail.com.

Congratulations to Our #RaceRelax Contest Winner: Fiona Bryan

Random.org has spoken!

Our Run With Wifey Contest winner is none other than the beautiful 

"Bantering Blonde" Fiona Bryan! 

If you follow Fiona and The BlogRollers, you know she was more than on a mission to win this prize and her relentless perserverance paid off! You may remember that Fiona entered to win our Fourth Wheel Contest last year to roll with us to BlogHer '09 in the Chevy. Talk about a comeback, right? She stacked the Random.org odds in her favor with an impressive 19 entries which included posting about this contest on 10 different social media sites! Come hell or high water, she was rollin' with The BlogRollers!

We are excited to have Fiona with us on our inaugural #RunWifeyRun event and glad that we will help her to continue to reach her fitness goals. Please stop by her Bantering Blonde blog and MomActive sites or give her a congratulatory shout-out on twitter.

A big thanks to all of you who entered the contest. We truly appreciate your enthusiasm about this event as well as your desire to GET MOVING! We want you to know that this is only the beginning of many fun programs we have planned and rest assured there will be more opportunities like this in the future :)

Get Moving! Race & Relax takes place on June 5, 2010 and is sponsored by the Cherry Marketing Institute, Walt Disney World Resort, the Wine Sisterhood and Pampered by Adrienne.