As I mentioned previously, I’m running the ING Half Marathon on March 29th. Training began this week and so far so good. I’m also incorporating the 100 Pushups deal into my training program. Wish me luck.

Because I’m never content to just join something, (went from APWBWGTTD member to hosting the site, went to a Home Owner’s Meeting for my neighborhood and left as a member of the Board of Directors, joined a kickball league and three seasons later I’m President of the OTP divisions…) I decided to register the kickball league as a Large Group Affiliate in the race. As such, we get a little free advertising, a discount on the race admission, and our very own space at the finish line of the race for our runners to rehydrate and socialize. That being the case, we need runners for our group. I’m hoping for 50+. If you were planning on running the race or if I have inspired you to run, join our group and run with us.

Here’s the info you need.

Register at this site: http://www.inggeorgiamarathon.com

Join the group, WAKA Kickballers.

Use the following codes to get a discount on the race.

• WAKAMAR09 – $10 discount on ING Georgia Marathon entries through 3/18/09
• WAKAHALF9 – $5 discount on ING Georgia Half Marathon entries through 3/18/09

Pass this information along to anyone you know who wants to run the race. You don’t have to play kickball, just join our group so we can get our numbers up!

I’ll post more as training progresses… possibly.

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• The Natural Born Kickers were born in the GA Lightning Division of WAKA on Sundays at Hammond Park in Sandy Springs. We started off strong but ended the season 3-5. We quickly become known as the party team in the division and became close friends with most of the members of the play-off champion team, We’ve Got the Runs. A trip to Vegas was planned over Labor Day Weekend for The Founders Cup which is WAKA’s answer to national kickball play-offs. It turned out our friends in WGTR would receive a bid to play in Vegas which made the trip even that more exciting.
• NBK returned to Hammond Park on Sundays for the GA Lightning Summer Season. This season didn’t end much better kickball-wise but we had an absolute blast and made even more new friends as well as retained our title as Social Champions. WGTR would become the regular season champ but ultimately loseWeight Exercise to a new team, It’s Business Time, in the championship game.
• The trip to Vegas was a success in every way possible … except for kickball. The teams in Vegas play with an intensity we had never seen. The first game would end on account of a mercy rule (13-0 at the end of the 3rd inning). The second game would be much closer but, playing one man down, The Runs were not able to recover from a late inning rally. The third game was also close but resulted in two more players leaving with injury and a loss. One item to note however is this team would end up winning the whole sha-bang so not a bad showing all in all. For many of us this was our first trip to Vegas and was simply amazing. It would be several posts to recount all that went down.
• At some point in here I took over web responsibility for our two divisions GA Thunder and GA Lighting. There isn’t much to the pages now but I’m working on revamping them for the Spring Seasons.
• The NFL would be the end of the Sunday games for the year so a couple members of NBK (including myself) joined We’ve Got the Runs for Thursday games in the GA Thunder Division. This was a much more solid division and many said we would not be able to handle it. That would be the furthest thing from the truth. With a disappointing and embarrassing 16-3 route by the #2 team in the division, Balls of glory, the only loss we encountered, we ended the regular season 6-1-1 including a tie with the six-time defending division champions Out Sick on Friday. The play-offs would be our feeding ground as we won four straight games to be crowned 2008 GA Thunder Fall Season Champions. With the help from NBK, We’ve Got the Runs is the only team to win both the GA Lightning and GA Thunder divisions. The pic above is from our championship night. This earns us a bid in Vegas next year … oh the debauchery!
• Also during this time I was elected (more like appointed) to the Board of Directors for our two divisions. I was Vice President for the Fall Season and am currently President-Elect for the Spring Season. How did this happen exactly?
• Unfortunately WAKA will not be hosting a Winter Season but that’s not stopping us. Many of us from Natural Born Kickers, We’ve Got the Runs, and It’s Business Time have teamed up with a few others to play as WAKA WAKA WAKA in GoKickball’s inaugural Winter Season at Piedmont Park. The season starts December 6th and we couldn’t be more excited about showing this second rate league how real kickballers play!

I’ll post more as events arise… who knew playing kickball could be so much fun and take up so much of our time?

This weekend I head to Las Vegas (my very first trip) for the WAKA Founder’s Cup aka the national Kickball Championships. No, my team did not make it. We’re just going to watch. We will be traveling/staying with a team who is playing in the games though so that should provide an additional level of excitement.

Anyways… how fitting that it will be raining in the desert nearly my entire trip. Looks like if I want any pool time at all it will be Friday.

Wish me and my wallet luck.

I’m pretty excited about this and can’t wait for the first game. Speaking of which, games will be played on Sundays from 2p-5p starting March 30th. The season is 10 weeks and division champions or something get an invitation to Las Vegas for the Founders Cup. I seriously doubt NBK will make it that far. We’re all probably better drinkers than we are ball kickers.

Anyways, registration ends today and we currently have 14 players (only need 11) but would love to have any others join if they would like. So, if you’re reading this in time and would like to join, registration costs $63 and can be done at kickball.com. Join the GA Lightening Division and select Natural Born Killers as your team.

Team names thrown out:
Amber Alerts (my personal fav)
David and the Ball Kickers (neighbors personal fav)
Kickle Me Elmo (Coworkers personal fav)
Sir Kicksalot
Serial Kickers
Hooray for Boobies
Intergalactic Fingrebang (the initial front runner)
Kickaholics (name I came up with after the team name was decided)

More posts regarding this to follow I’m sure.