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…
Author: Seth
World traveler, with a particular affection for America. Mediocre marathon runner. Excellent ice cream consumer.
“Sleeping under the stars”
Deschutes National Forest Off Highway 58 I returned to Oregon to run a trail race near Crater Lake, and this time flew into Euguene instead of Portland to save myself a few hours of driving in the middle of the night. I hadn’t anticipated I’d still had almost 3 hours from the airport, but off…
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…
Nebraska State Fair Marathon 2019
24-AUG-2019 Grand Island, Nebraska, USA 42nd State for Round 3 Strava Link Garmin Link I arrived to Wichita (about 4 hours away from Grand Island, but it was the best deal I could find) just before midnight. An uneventful drive to Grand Island where I met up with Andy, Gary, and Gaby who had been…
Hiking Flattop Mountain
Chugach State Park Alaska, United States Alaska’s most visited mountain is Flattop Mountain in Chugach State Park and it’s not hard to see why. The trailhead is within a short drive of Anchorage, where 40 percent of Alaskans live. Most of the trail is quite walkable and offers spectacular views and wildflowers and for those…
2019 Anchorage Runfest 49k
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…
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…