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…
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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…
Hartford Marathon 2019
12-OCT-2019 Hartford, Connecticut, USA State 45 for 3rd round Strava Link Garmin Link This week was the beginning of my “make my smartphone a dumb phone” project, and as a result I was completely unprepared for traffic on 95 to the airport. I nearly missed my flight, were it not for lightning on the runway….
Wineglass Marathon 2019
06-OCT-2019 Corning, New York, USA Gary’s 50th state Strava Link Garmin Link I first met Gary in West Virginia at the Marshall University Marathon. We were running at about the same pace, and I had noticed his Ironman tattoo on his calf. I’m always impressed by the Ironman folks. I mean it’s all I can…
“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…