Big, Long Thing (26.2+) #41 for the year, the Azalea 24-Hour Race in Ravine Gardens State Park in Palatka, Florida. The concept: race starts at 8 AM, you keep going until 24 hours later, or you don’t care to go anymore. Course is a 2 mile loop, plenty of opportunity to visit the aid stations…
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8 Hours of Hell (FL) 2016
Lifetime BLT (Big Long Thing, marathon or longer) number 94. Number 30 for the year at “8 Hours of Hell,” part of a series of six 8 hour events through the summer in southwest Florida. Today’s race was in Coloosahatchee Regional Park in Alva, Florida. The course consists of mostly singletrack BMX course with a…
Lean Horse Ultra (50M) 2016
My second attempt at a 50 miler. When I signed up for the Keys 100 50 mile race I was asked at registration “Can you realistically finish in under 10 hours?” And my reaction was “yeah,” but I asked some ultra running friends I deeply respect, one of whom offered to give me training advice….
Keys 100 (50 Mile Individual) 2016
Super humbling weekend. So many people to thank. Amy Melissa Guimond for crewing me through this. Karen Eviltwin Vollan for trying to prepare me. Marcela Todd for being the only thing she knows how to be, an encouragement machine, while suffering through the 50 miler herself. My Frontrunners doing the race who took time to…