Ah, Sunday. A good day for a long run. The goal was a minimum of 25K. If I made it to 50K, it was a bonus. I wanted at least 4 hours on my feet, and longer would be better. With a Saturday night email to my group saying essentially “I’m running tomorrow, anyone coming? [...]
Read More..>>I recently signed up on the ultra list-server, hearing that there was good advice to be found there. Well, within about 15 minutes of getting approved, I had about 20 messages in the inbox talking about all sorts of stuff: There was a race going on in Hawaii, a couple of people asking advice about [...]
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..>>Next weekend is the Hogpen 17K, which I’m tenatively planning on doing. Being mostly uphill, I anticipate it will be a bit on the long side. Since this is my last weekend for preparation, yesterday I did a brisk 8 miles of powerwalking with Todd (and the second 4 with Jenny too). And, as the [...]
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..>>Or, in this case, typing before thinking. Michelle, up in New York, and whom I’ve never actually met, as gotten me into things before. She originally started a streak last year, and I joined in. She stopped at 30 days, which was her goal, but I kept going and got in 98 days or something [...]
Read More..>>Happy new year wishes. So far, mine is starting off well. Last night, we actually managed to stay up to midnight and watch the ball on the tv. This morning, the plan was to head over to Little Mulberry and meet up with a number of people from the group for a run. Well, some [...]
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