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…
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Baltimore Marathon 2019
19-OCT-2019 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Lifetime BLT #227 Strava Link Garmin Link I returned to the Baltimore Marathon this year with my race wife, Amy, and a whole passel of friends since the race would officially be a 50 State Marathon Club reunion location. The only thing notable about our outbound journey is that I was…
Steamtown Marathon 2019
13-OCT-2019 Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA BLT #45 for 2019 Strava Link Garmin Link Swag. In the context of a marathon the word usually means there’s dust collectors for you to take home (a towel, a mug, a pint glass, a water bottle, a sweatshirt, whatever). The Steamtown marathon has swag in the urban dictionary sense of…
Hartford Marathon 2019
12-OCT-2019 Hartford, Connecticut, USA State 45 for 3rd round Strava Link Garmin Link This week was the beginning of my “make my smartphone a dumb phone” project, and as a result I was completely unprepared for traffic on 95 to the airport. I nearly missed my flight, were it not for lightning on the runway….
Wineglass Marathon 2019
06-OCT-2019 Corning, New York, USA Gary’s 50th state Strava Link Garmin Link I first met Gary in West Virginia at the Marshall University Marathon. We were running at about the same pace, and I had noticed his Ironman tattoo on his calf. I’m always impressed by the Ironman folks. I mean it’s all I can…
2019 Berlin Marathon
29-SEP-2019 Berlin, Berlin State, Germany 3rd German BLT, 7 continents in 258 days Strava Link Garmin Link When I began the year in January I was headed to Antarctica for the White Continent 50k to complete the last of the continents. Of course when one goal finishes a new one (or often two or three)…
2019 Maratón de Buenos Aires
22-SEP-2019 Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina Country #19 Strava Link Garmin Link I attempted to get to Buenos Aires last year with Kevin and bad weather in the Dallas area prevented us from being able to catch our connecting flight. This year Buenos Aires was the location for the Marathon Globetrotters‘ Annual…
2019 North Umpqua Trail 50k
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….
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…