07-SEP-2019 Roseburg, Oregon, USA Calendar Year BLT #40 Strava Link Garmin Link My third attempt at Oregon this year finally succeeded. The first attempt (the Bend Marathon) I missed due to weather related flight delays. Just as well, since apparently the course was short this year and it would have been a long training run….
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Pocatello Marathon 2019
31-AUG-2019 Pocatello, Idaho, USA Lifetime BLT 220 Strava Link Garmin Link What to say about the Pocatello Marathon that I haven’t covered in the previous two race reports? It remains my favorite Idaho marathon. For a town of about 50,000 people it seems to get an outsized number of volunteers. This little town seems to…
Nebraska State Fair Marathon 2019
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…
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…
Maah Daah Hey Trail Marathon 2019
Medora, North Dakota, USA 27-JUL-2019 Calendar Year BLT 34 Strava Link Garmin Link I arrived in Bismarck at about midnight and started driving to Dickinson where my buddy Andy had a room already. Due to a time change between Bismarck and Dickinson I arrived at about 1am, good news for me, an extra hour of…
Madison Marathon 2019
20-JUL-2019 Ennis, Montana, USA BLT 215 Strava Link Garmin Link 2 years ago a group of my friends signed up for this marathon just outside of Yellowstone in a small town called Ennis (pronounced like tennis not like penis). The opinion among those friends was that this race is one of the hardest marathons in…
Grandfather Mountain Marathon 2019
13-JUL-2019 Boone, North Carolina, USA BLT #32 for Calendar Year 2019 Strava Link | Garmin Link Short version: All the beauty (and climbing) of a mountain trail race, but lots of blind corners on mountain switchbacks. After landing in the Charlotte airport there’s a 2 hour drive to Boone. Named for pioneer/explorer Daniel Boone, the…