[Editor: This is a guest post from Roman, as submitted to The Darkside Running Club. The race website is http://www.ms50.com/. ] This was my first attempt at a distance greater than 50K. Billed as “easy” 50-miler, I figured it was right up my alley. I had kept this one in the back of mind for [...]
Read More..>>Our motley crew of adventurers left Braselton, GA to Moulton, AL on Friday afternoon for the 2009 running of the Black Warrior 50K. After a late start, and sufficient grief given to a certain member of the party who loves his job so much he couldn’t bear to leave, we hit the road. Starting with [...]
Read More..>>Saturday, January 17th, 2009 – Helen, Georgia – Hogpen Hill Climb 17K “One of the toughest races in North America”, so the brochure says. When we started talking about doing this in our running group, how could I pass it up? Hip problems mostly behind me, needing to get some hill work in for upcoming [...]
Read More..>>Today, as my fun community service, I went out and photographed the GUTS Fatass 50K. What a blast! The count I heard was a 115 people starting. It may be off by a couple, but for a fatass, which is supposedly a “no-support, no shirt, no medal, no nothing” race, it a absolute ton of [...]
Read More..>>Last weekend, Roman and myself headed out to Alabama with The Goat to support him during his effort to run the Pinoti 100 mile endurance run. Later in the evening, we were joined by Coach K and the mysterious lean and mean Clay. I was primary out there as the driver and photographer, while everyone [...]
Read More..>>Wow, it’s been a while since I wrote anything. (Well, not that long, but enough to make me feel guilty that my loyal readers may be seriously deprived of…well…of me. So here I am, in all my radiant, typing glory. Things have been busy lately, but all with good stuff. This last weekend, after a [...]
Read More..>>I decided to put the remainder of the Blue Ridge Relay reports over on the actual BRR blog we started. For those of you looking for the complete story, here it is: Part I: http://gonesomewhere.com/p?=215 Part II: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=79 Part III: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=90 Part IV: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=103 Part V: http://coachk.gonesomewhere.com/?p=109 I think we’re all still running on [...]
Read More..>>After leaving our cabin, and noticing the road down was almost scarier in the daylight, we made it to Grayson State park in no time. Heading up the main road, we saw a couple runners coming down, and that was encouraging. Stopping at the gate, we asked the lady if we only have 20 minutes [...]
Read More..>>[Note: You can also read this on Coach K's site. He was the team captain - I was the team driver / photographer / journalist / assistant time keeper / primary food eater / etc...Part II is over here. ] Thursday, September 3rd, 2008: The morning started with a team meeting at Keith’s house – our [...]
Read More..>>To my wife and I, Labor Day weekend means exploring. Over Labor Day weekend eight years ago, we got engaged on a roadtrip to Chilliwack, BC (we picked that destination simply because the name made us laugh). This Labor Day, we decided to go somewhere close to home. We took a look online and discovered that there are some covered bridges nearby [...]
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