Year to date marathon or longer #53, my last race of the year, and first 50K, in Alcoa, Tennessee, at the Pistol. Nice little course along the Pistol Creek Greenway. I spent most of the race with Terrance Lee, a fellow maniac from Chicago. It was a nice relaxed pace that should leave me in…
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Across The Years 2016
YTD Marathon or longer #52 at Across the Years 48 Hour Race (Left after 27 hours) in Glendale, AZ. 60 dirt trail loops, 63 miles, a 100k a new distance PR and Titanium the hard way (52 marathons or more in a year.) Foot pain from what I found out later was a pattern of…
Operation Jack 2016
Year-to-date marathon or longer #51, Operation Jack Marathon in Los Angeles, California. A nice cool day, and a mellow two loop bow-tie course with Alicja and Karen along Dockweiler State Beach and the Ballona Creek Bike Path. Nice views of the beach, the mountains, and Marina Del Rey with occasional sand dunes covering the beach…
Jacksonville Marathon 2016
Year to date marathon number 50 at the Jacksonville Marathon, in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia–no, Jacksonville, Florida. Anyway hot and humid day. I got to meet Jacksonville’s own animal-saving machine, Cameron Moore, hang with pacer extraordinaire Ken Fattmann and try out Galloway (Run/Walk interval) pacing. It’s a little more challenging, but interesting and seems to…
Honolulu Marathon 2016
Marathon or longer number 49 for the year, at the Honolulu Marathon, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin–er, Honolulu, Hawai’i. First, congrats to my friends Margaret Tollner and Michael Rhodes for finishing their 50th state this weekend, and many thanks to Tom Craven, Maniac extraordinaire, for hosting me and keeping me out of hours of traffic and parking…
Reggae Marathon 2016
Big, long thing (marathon or longer) number 48 of the year, at the Reggae Marathon in Negril, Jamaica, my 5th country this year (repeats in Germany and the US naturally). Hot, humid, and rather monotonous, a double loop of most of the 7 mile beach. Having passed almost all the properties in central Negril 4x…
The Texas Quad 2016
Big, Long Things Number 44, 45, 46, and 47 for the year at the Texas Quad in Dallas this Thanksgiving weekend. Only 5 more to go before New Year. Loops are a lot more fun when you’ve got your friends to hang with. Despite being pretty chatty I stuck to my plan to get faster…
Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon 2016
Year-to-date Big Long Thing #43 The Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon in Nashville, Tennessee. A notoriously hilly marathon (about twice as hilly as the Jerusalem Marathon) in the Percy Warner Park which is known to be inhabited by a rare breed of flying monkey who feasts upon the blood, sweat, and tears of participants. In…
White River Marathon 2016
Year-to-date Big Long Thing #42 the White River Marathon in Cotter, Arkansas. This race benefits Kenyans, but not in the usual sort of way, one of them who just happens to run REALLY fast. It was a pleasant double-looped course along a portion of the White River with a very generous cut off. Cool weather…