Tag: tennessee

What in all of hell was that?! I had my 4th worst “just a marathon” time today at Raccoon Mountain in Chattanooga. The race was challenging (2238 ft elevation gain), and I’m injured (a number of places but most painfully my left glute since Hawai’i) but I really don’t have an explanation for why I…

Big long thing number 175 complete at the Flying Monkey Marathon. For those unfamiliar with the Flying Monkey Marathon it is a fundraiser for the eradication of a dangerous invasive species of flying monkey found in the Warner Park system in Nashville Tennessee. This is my third monkey and as I am wont to do…

The Flying Monkey Marathon is hard. It’s 3200 feet of climbing whereas most “hilly” road marathons like Heart of America or Hatfield McCoy are 1200 ft. Why would people do this to themselves? Stockholm syndrome? Sure a few. A beautiful park? Certainly that’s a great reason. But for the most part it’s an atmosphere of…

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…

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…

Marathon or longer #87, #23 Year-to-date. Blister in the Sun, in Cookeville, TN. Hot, hilly, and humid, though the RD was apparently unable to keep the clouds away, there was still plenty of sadism. Fun fact: Tennessee has some weird speed limits. It’s 19 mph in some areas of Collierville and 31 mph in some…