Archive for October, 2011
Deadman Peaks Trail Run
Thursday, October 27th, 2011In my running career (spanning 9 years) I've run 12 marathons, four ultra relays, a 60K race, a 50K run around Manhattan, and now a 50 miler. I've trained hard for most of these races, putting upwards of hundreds of miles per month at the peak of my training for ...
Ragnar Relay Pennsylvania: Part 4
Thursday, October 27th, 2011Have Fun Storming the Castle After my hard run on my first leg I began to rehydrate. Solid food, though, was hard to get down. I insisted we start driving immediately so we could get pictures and video of R__ running and so S__ could have as much time as possible ...
Ragnar Relay Pennsylvania: Part 3
Wednesday, October 19th, 20117 October: First Leg and Then Some I saw Kendra (from team #6) as I rounded a bend in the road. The runner I'd past a minute before told me she was about two minutes ahead, but she looked further. She wore a Camelbak and moved at a good clip. I ...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011This post was supposed to be part three of the Ragnar PA recap, but it's not. Instead, I'm going to write about nerves. As in butterflies. Like the ones that are flying around inside my stomach. Not really in my stomach, but in my legs and my arms and my ...
Ragnar Relay Pennsylvania: Part 2
Monday, October 17th, 20116 October: Dinner and Decorations We ate dinner at the home of JZ's youth where her mother and father prepared a delicious lasagna meal, complete with bread and salad, to fuel our propulsion. They were gracious hosts to a ragtag bunch of worn out runners. JZ herself was quite famous in ...
Ragnar Relay Pennsylvania: Part 1
Sunday, October 16th, 20118 October: Prologue It is after two in the morning and though I am asleep, I am dreaming of running. The sun warms my face and I'm in the lead in a race. I turn to see where my closest competitor is and in doing so trip over a curb. I ...
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Words just can't do this event justice. We got up at 3:30am to see hundreds of balloons rise into the dawn from a field in north Albuquerque, having gotten about three or four hours of sleep the night before. We were exhausted, but it was well worth it. I took so ...
A month of running
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Every year my father meets up with three buddies and spends a weekend playing golf. It's an annual event they've been doing for years, one that he looks forward to the way some look forward to that two weeks of vacation Americans get each year. For him, it's a chance ...
