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…
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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 There is also an unpublished 50k option…
Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Half Marathon 2019
17-NOV-2019 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Strava Link Garmin Link Last Saturday I tripped on a steel plate covering a hole in a construction area at mile 5 of the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon. I fell hard, knocked the wind out of myself again and it would seem that I bruised my ribs. As a result I…
Marshall University Marathon 2019
03-NOV-2019 Huntington, West Virginia, USA Lifetime BLT #230 Strava Link Garmin Link I decided on repeating my 2017 trip to Huntington so I could close out the 3rd round of the states. Marshall University Marathon is not an especially exciting race, if I’m being frank with you. It’s flat, by West Virginia standards, with only…
Javelina Jundred – 100K 2019
26-OCT-2019 Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA 1st Fixed Distance 100k attempt Strava Link Garmin Link When I was laying out the states that I jad left for this round I knew that I wanted to make Javelina a part of my plan, and the only question was the 100 miler, or the 100k. I jad asked…
Atlantic City Marathon 2019
19-OCT-2019 Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA State #46, Round 3 Strava Link Garmin Link After beating a hasty retreat from Baltimore we headed directly (reads: unshowered and filthy) to packet pickup for the Atlantic City Marathon. There I was incensed again because I somehow forgot that Atlantic City has gone the way of Vegas in…