29-FEB-2020 Jackson, MS, USA Strava Link Garmin Link Calendar Day 184/366 One of my long-range life goals has been to run a marathon or ultramarathon at some point in my life on every single calendar day. This of course necessitates a marathon on Leap Day (February 29), a day so rare it only comes around…
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Kiawah Island Marathon 2019
14-DEC-2019 Kiawah Island, South Carolina, USA Strava Link Garmin Link 50th state x 3 finish Returning to Kiawah became necessary to complete the states this year after I’d signed up for but DNF’d a race called the Jones Gap Trail Run. I arrived and learned it had an 11 hour cutoff not because the race…
Millinocket Marathon 2019
Millinocket, Maine, USA Strava Link Garmin Link State 49 for the 3rd round The original plan for Millinocket was a quick trip. Fly in, run, fly out. With a flight leaving out of Bangor, one hour South of Millinocket at 2:50pm. Then I realized the race started at 10am. Ooops. So I figured I’ll still…
Seattle Quad Day 4 2019 (Seattle Marathon)
Seattle, Washington, USA 01-DEC-2019 Strava Link Garmin Link 5th Washington BLT After 2 days of healing up and site-seeing in Seattle I was ready to have another go at the marathon. I trundled up to the start line in the shadow of the Space Needle from my hotel in Queen Anne a few blocks away…
Seattle Quad Day 1 2019 (Wattle Waddle)
Snohomish, Washington, USA 28-NOV-2019 Strava Link Garmin Link 50th BLT for calendar year 2019 I arrived to Seattle about midnight on a direct flight from Miami. Checked in to my hotel and rose early to arrive to the Wattle Waddle marathon; the half is called the Wittle Waddle. There is also an unpublished 50k option…
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…
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…