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…
Category: Running
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…
Hatcher Pass Marathon 2019
06-JUL-2019 Willow, Alaska, USA Lifetime BLT #212 Strava Link | Garmin Link Short version: Climb 4,000 ft over 25 miles, natural beauty, HOT (even by Florida standards) The first time I’d heard of the Hatcher Pass Marathon it was because a friend, Jennifer Hatcher, had signed up for it as her Alaska marathon, because—well, because…
Wellington Marathon 2019
30-JUN-2019 Wellington, New Zealand Country #18 Strava Link | Garmin Link Short version: Perfect weather, weird course, undoubtedly not the best race in NZ, but still plenty good. “Why on earth did you come to Wellington?!” It was the incredulous question I was asked by nearly everyone in Wellington when I told them I had…