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50 halfs by age 50
*Mel* // "A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts." - Steve Prefontaine
not bad for mile 25
Based on the last two, I can turn my whole life around.
Good Bad & The Monkey
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
From here.
an amazing likeness
Boy...the folks in West-by-God-Virginia sort of got hosed...
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
same goes for Ar-Kansas
Best Present Ever
and the one in Virginia is run by people who do such a poor job that almost no local runners ever run it. It's the only race in town where I know almost none of the runners.
Imminent Catastrophe
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
√ Javelina Jundred Jalloween 2015
Cruel Jewel 50 mile May 2016
Western States 100 June 2016
"Stunning", "scenic" and "Hartford" do not belong together.
Runners run
Yeah, that was the first of several on the list that made me chuckle. However, they seem to be glommed onto road marathons and CT doesn't have a lot of choices.
Whidbey Island in my state made me chuckle too. Don't travel here for that one.
I kind of liked Marshall. There are cooler ones in WV now, but there weren't for awhile, so that was the first one I ran. It was alright.
They DID pick Crater Lake (OR) and Estes Park (CO), which are my "top two hardest road marathons in the US". And Monkey just for fun. But thankfully not hateful Grandfather Mountain.
As for the graphics, the weird dropped 0 in 50... I guess that's "jaw dropping". I guess.
Break on through
Indeed!
"Not to touch the Earth, not to see the Sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run..."
I have never run Hartford (and I'm not likely to...ever) but several people I know have, and have mentioned that is one of the worst they have run, or, near the bottom.
Jeff