Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Friday, 5 October 2012, 0700 hours
The emcee announced the Magnificent 7. We were the first ultra team to start and we were, to the last of us, non-plussed about being at Stauffer Park in Lancaster, PA, before the sun had even deigned to make an appearance. As S, the Doktor ...
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
Saturday, 6 October 2012, 8:35am
Five of us were in a fifteen passenger van: R, S, JZ and Z, and me, while A ran his final leg. Outside a thick, cold and damp fog covered the Lehigh Valley. We were parked in the handicapped spot in front of the Mahoning Township ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
8 October, around 10:00am: Penultimate Legs
I am running my hardest leg. Once I leave the Lehighton Area High School, the course meanders through Lehighton briefly before the long climb up Flagstaff Mountain. I watch closely for signs indicating the turn up the mountain, but unsure of where to go I ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
8 October 2011, just past midnight
I was all alone on a major road at close to midnight. In past Ragnars I had brought a small handheld flashlight to help light my way, but this time I'd forgotten it back home in Shiprock. The first nearly six miles of my second ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Have 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 ...
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
7 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 ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
6 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 ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
8 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 ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Every 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 ...
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