Sometimes a plan just falls apart. I was supposed to do five 10k loops at Jacks Trail 50k today. But because I’m an idiot who wouldn’t wear his sunglasses I drove into a curb and screwed up my wheel. Since it’s Sunday and nothing opens in the area until the late morning I decided to…
Tag: ultras
San Francisco “Ultra” 2018
The San Francisco “Ultra” completed in San Francisco consisting of the Nohtaram Ocsicnarf Nas (the San Francisco marathon in reverse) followed by the regular old marathon for a total of 52.4 miles. About the air quotes, this isn’t so much an ultra as two distinct marathons with common start times for each race. So that…
8 Hours of Hell-July 2018
I love that ultras could be confused with a family barbecue sometimes. Marathon or longer number 164 was the July installment of the 8 Hours of Hell series in Oscar Scherer Park just outside Sarasota. The course is a 3.25 mile loop consisting of 1 mile of beautiful Florida trail run followed by a mile…
Zermatt Ultra 2018
10th country and 163rd big long thing down at the Zermatt Marathon in the Helvetic Confederation (aka Switzerland). Barely an ultra it was 45.5 km so I thought “How hard can it be?” Well, it was kind of like one of those Revel races but instead of starting at the summit and falling down it…
Keys 100 2018
Confucius say, “If at first you don’t succeed, congratulations, you found something hard.” Big Long Thing #161, the Keys 100, a 100 miler from Key Largo to Key West. Flat, unusually cool this year (70s as opposed to 90s), with off and on rain. I failed in my first 100 attempt at Rocky Raccoon. I…
8 Hours of Hell – May 2018
Big long thing #160 and Keys 100 dress rehearsal/taper madness relief 50k today at the 8 Hours of Hell Trail Race in Alva, Florida. Up and down BMX trails in the midday heat (although luckily coolish today) amidst old Florida charm of rooty live oaks and one for real snake (harmless corn snake). It was…
ET Midnight Marathon 2017
My first 51k (31.7 miles) at the ET Full Moon Midnight 51k in Rachel, Nevada a little town of about 35 on the Extraterrestrial Highway as it has been named. Starting at midnight, the course is a slow 13 mile climb and a 7 mile drop that passes the finish for the shorter distance races,…
Rocky Raccoon 100 2017-DNF
Rocky Raccoon 100, my first voluntary DNF (Did Not Finish). I think I went out too fast. First 20 was 4:30, second 5:15, third 8:00. In 13:00 I certainly might have done one more loop, but 2 wasn’t in the cards. So it’s a DNF. A couple of spills (note: even if your Camelbak is…
Across The Years 2016
YTD Marathon or longer #52 at Across the Years 48 Hour Race (Left after 27 hours) in Glendale, AZ. 60 dirt trail loops, 63 miles, a 100k a new distance PR and Titanium the hard way (52 marathons or more in a year.) Foot pain from what I found out later was a pattern of…