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…
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)…