29-FEB-2020 Jackson, MS, USA Strava Link Garmin Link Calendar Day 184/366 One of my long-range life goals has been to run a marathon or ultramarathon at some point in my life on every single calendar day. This of course necessitates a marathon on Leap Day (February 29), a day so rare it only comes around…
Author: Seth
World traveler, with a particular affection for America. Mediocre marathon runner. Excellent ice cream consumer.
Hawai’i 2020
Why aren’t you running? The original plan was to participate in the Revel Kulia marathon Saturday on the island of Hawai’i (aka the big island), hop a flight to Maui and do the Maui Oceanfront Marathon on Sunday. That was before I realized plantar fasciitis had kind of turned me into a hobbling mess after…
More travel, less running
So I’ve had plantar fasciitis, aka policeman’s heel, that phenomenon where you get out of bed and your heel hurts first thing in the morning until you put on some sandals or shoes, and it’s marginally better, for as long as I can remember, but in the last few months it’s reached the point where…
Turks and Caicos Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands 11-JAN-2020 I had come to Providenciales, or Provo as it is known to the locals, for the TCI Move-a-thon, a running festival on the small British territory largely out of a curiosity about the race. There had been some consternation amongst the Marathon Globetrotters about an inability to get enough participants…
2019 Year-In-Review
When I started planning 2019 my primary goal was to complete the 3rd round of the states, but then considering I was planning to go to Antarctica, South Africa for Comrades, Asia for the Tokyo Marathon, South America for Buenos Aires, it seemed only logical that if I slipped in a trip to Europe and…
Kiawah Island Marathon 2019
14-DEC-2019 Kiawah Island, South Carolina, USA Strava Link Garmin Link 50th state x 3 finish Returning to Kiawah became necessary to complete the states this year after I’d signed up for but DNF’d a race called the Jones Gap Trail Run. I arrived and learned it had an 11 hour cutoff not because the race…
Millinocket Marathon 2019
Millinocket, Maine, USA Strava Link Garmin Link State 49 for the 3rd round The original plan for Millinocket was a quick trip. Fly in, run, fly out. With a flight leaving out of Bangor, one hour South of Millinocket at 2:50pm. Then I realized the race started at 10am. Ooops. So I figured I’ll still…
Seattle Quad Day 4 2019 (Seattle Marathon)
Seattle, Washington, USA 01-DEC-2019 Strava Link Garmin Link 5th Washington BLT After 2 days of healing up and site-seeing in Seattle I was ready to have another go at the marathon. I trundled up to the start line in the shadow of the Space Needle from my hotel in Queen Anne a few blocks away…
Seattle Quad Day 1 2019 (Wattle Waddle)
Snohomish, Washington, USA 28-NOV-2019 Strava Link Garmin Link 50th BLT for calendar year 2019 I arrived to Seattle about midnight on a direct flight from Miami. Checked in to my hotel and rose early to arrive to the Wattle Waddle marathon; the half is called the Wittle Waddle. There is also an unpublished 50k option…