24-AUG-2019 Grand Island, Nebraska, USA 42nd State for Round 3 Strava Link Garmin Link I arrived to Wichita (about 4 hours away from Grand Island, but it was the best deal I could find) just before midnight. An uneventful drive to Grand Island where I met up with Andy, Gary, and Gaby who had been…
Month: August 2019
Hiking Flattop Mountain
Chugach State Park Alaska, United States Alaska’s most visited mountain is Flattop Mountain in Chugach State Park and it’s not hard to see why. The trailhead is within a short drive of Anchorage, where 40 percent of Alaskans live. Most of the trail is quite walkable and offers spectacular views and wildflowers and for those…
2019 Anchorage Runfest 49k
Anchorage, Alaska, USA 8th ultramarathon state Strava Link Garmin Link Saturday 3pm Pacific I’m in SeaTac Airport getting ready to board and it dawns on me “I’m going to miss packet pickup.” Frantically I text and call anyone I can think of. I hadn’t anticipated the degree to which abandoning the Book of Faces would…
Humboldt Bay Marathon 2019
11-AUG-2019 Eureka, California, USA BLT 51 in the last 365 days Garmin Link Strava Link The original plan was to double this weekend with the Crater Lake Rim Marathon in Klamath Falls, Oregon, but a late arrival to PDX coupled with me starting to fall asleep on the 4.5 hour drive in the middle of…
The Archangel Marathon 2019 [DNF]
Palmer, Alaska, USA 04-AUG-2019 Strava Link Garmin Link When I registered for the Hatcher Pass Marathon the description was that we would be climbing up for about 25 miles to the summit of Hatcher Pass, and then head down for 1.5 miles into Independence Mine. I wondered: Gee, why don’t they run that in the…
Beat the Blerch Marathon 2019
Carnation, Washington, USA 03-AUG-2019 BLT 35 for 2019 Strava Link Garmin Link The Blerch a personification of that little voice in your head that says you shouldn’t go to the gym or go for a run, but instead stay home, lay on the couch, and watch the Hallmark Channel, QVC or some other equally stupid…