Faster Than Your Couch!
Inspired by recent comments in the dailies and RR's:
1) Trail race with marathon, 50k, 50M and 100M options, gnarly terrain, lots of elevation gain.
California runner: Considers signing up for the marathon, but discovers that it's run on trails, so he doesn't. There could be mountain lions out there! He will, however, go out to watch the 100-mile runners suffer, pretending he's trying to gain experience by being there.
Wisconsin runner: Considers signing up, but only because there's the 100-mile option.
Texas runner: Won't run unless the humidity is over 80%.
Nevada runner: Won't run if the humidity climbs over 30%.
Pennsylvania runner: "Hey, when does registration open?"
2) During hunting season, the law requires that you wear at least 50 square inches of blaze orange clothing.
Alabama runner: Disappears for 2 months from all running to go out hunting.
Wisconsin runner: Blaze orange, really? He might wear an orange hat, though.
Pennsylvania runner: Wraps himself in 10 square feet of bright blaze orange fabric and attaches two blaze orange flags to his pick-up truck.
California runner: Wrecks his mind trying to figure out how to extend the surface of his running outfits to total 50 square inches.
3) Winter, it's snowing.
Montana runner: Won't go out for a run unless the snow is 6 feet high.
Maryland runner: Won't go out in the slush because there's no chance to BQ.
Pennsylvania runner: Throws on his shorts and a singlet (after all, it's winter!) and goes out for a run in 10-degree weather.
California runner: "What?"
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Proud Pennsylvanian Trail Runner!
Dear Race Director. Could you please move the 50k to Sunday. I'll need a cool down after Saturday's 50M!
2) During hunting season, the law requires that you wear at least 50 square inches of blaze orange clothing
I hunted for 13 years so I'm okay with hunters for the most part, though I lost interest in it when I started spending every single day in the woods trail running. Come November I usually throw on an orange vest. The most frustrating thing isn't hunting season, but rather hunters who never leave the trail. Last year I encountered a portable tree-stand right above the trail.
"Throws on his shorts and a singlet (after all, it's winter!) and goes out for a run in 10-degree weather," sounds about right. Last winter I think I broke out the long pants a grand total of times. The funny thing is at the beginning of every group run people look at me like I'm crazy, but within a couple miles they usually wish they were in shorts as well.
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2) The most frustrating thing isn't hunting season, but rather hunters who never leave the trail. Last year I encountered a portable tree-stand right above the trail.
LOL!
At last year's Stone Mill 50M race, we encountered two hunters and their two dead deer right on the trail. However, that was in Maryland, and 40 miles into the race, we were not sure if we or the deer were better off.
At that point the deer probably looked better.
Trail Monster
At that point the deer probably SMELLED better.
FTFY.
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7/27 Burning RIver 100M
8/24 Baker 50M
10/5 Oil Creek (distance to be determined)
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1. trail race w/ gnarly terrain w/ lots of elevation gain
Montana runner- is there any other kind of trail race?
2. during hunting season:
Montana runner- throws rifle on back, biathlon style for run, saw a nice bull the week before on a run
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Oregon Trail runner:
Won't enter the trail race until his beard grows in to at least 3 inches....
Considers a toque "running gear"
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50k Trail race with 3000ft elevation change
Indiana - "oh that's so hilly!"
PA - "Is that elevation change in the first 15k? yes. I'm in!"
Utah - "In the first 10k? Sounds like a good warm-up."
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PA - "Is that elevation change in the first 25k? yes. I'm in!"
3,000 feet is about a good thousand feet short for a Pa 25k race, don't you think?
good point. I changed it.
Description of the race course:
Pennsylvania: "After the first 5 miles, where you will gain 2.200 feet in elevation, the remaining 8 miles are gently rolling or downhill, so this will likely be your fastest HM ever!"
Indiana: "The 10k race course is mainly flat, with two significant hills, 120 feet elevation gain each, so brace yourself for this taxing race!"
Utah: "Our beautiful and scenic, easy-to-run 25k race course features only 6,000 feet elevation gain, mostly over scree and boulders, although you will also encounter a short (0.6 mile) stretch of grassy meadows, and some exposed areas featuring spectacular 800 feet drop offs."