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…
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2018 RDC Marathon
Marathon or longer #174 at the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Marathon in North Carolina. A 2 mile loop around a mall to spread out the field before sending them on a 24 mile out and back on the American Tobacco Trail, a rails-to-trails flat course, before wrapping the final quarter mile in the mall parking lot. This…
Tick Tock Ultra (changed to Marathon) 2016
Tick-tock 12 Hour Ultra. This race was supposed to be a 12 hour training run and a potential distance PR. But after a half a week of a sore throat, yesterday my eye started to itch, and by this morning it was super gross and stuck shut with gunk until I irrigated it. So I…
Tobacco Road Marathon 2015
15-MAR-2015 Cary, North Carolina, USA It’s March, and that can mean only one thing in North Carolina: Tobacco Road Marathon! Just beat 4 Hours for state 25. Fun fact: founded in 1789, UNC is the oldest state university in the US. We won’t be discussing Notre Dame.