Your Running "Bucket List". (Read 486 times)

 

What, 150 doesn't count?

 

 

Miles in a year??

150 was worth 150 but it took me a little over two days (and yes, I'd like those two hours back).  101/110 is my ATY 24 hour hope.

Yes 4500 miles in a year.  A number I used to ballpark regularly but have not in a couple years due to various health things and shenanigans.

Boston

Sub-3 marathon

Western States silver buckle

Spartathlon 246k

Comrades

 

and some performance goals that I'll keep to myself for now.

Spartathlon 246k

I want to do some iconic mountain races.

 

Pikes Peak ascent

Mt Washington

Imogene Pass

 

Score a 90% age grade somewhere

As for 90% - I'm going backwards and not sure with what's up with that.

Ran mediocre at Pikes, but finished and that's good enough for the bucket list.

Bucket List:

1.) sub 4:20 mile

2.) sub 4:10 mile

3.) sub 15 5k

4.) Make the NCAA regional meet in track

5.) Run from my Bible camp to the nearest town and back (18 miles)

6.) Run the Maah Daah Hey Trail through the North Dakota Badlands (50, 100, or 150 miles depending on which you want)

7.) Win the Fargo Marathon 10k

8.) Be a better coach than my high school cross country coach was

9.) Watch the U.S. Olympic Trials in person

 

Heh. Yeah, keeping it interesting does make life more complicated. Thing is, I seem to do better the longer the race is. Part of me wonders what I could do at 6-day... but I don't want to spend 6 days to find out.

 

 

One of those I'll state publicly is this:

 

Make the US National 24-hour team

 

First shot at that is coming up at Desert Solstice 24 in December.

DAMN SON, Go with yo bad self!!!!

Not tripping over the bucket and getting hurt

Heh. Yeah, keeping it interesting does make life more complicated. Thing is, I seem to do better the longer the race is. Part of me wonders what I could do at 6-day... but I don't want to spend 6 days to find out.

 

 

One of those I'll state publicly is this:

 

Make the US National 24-hour team

 

First shot at that is coming up at Desert Solstice 24 in December.

Haha, wow. Five years later I am still trying to make the 24-hour team. I missed the cut by 300 feet in 2017 and one mile in 2019. But since this post I have acquired 6 age-group American records (from 200K to 48 hours) and have indeed moved up to 6-day races. (Obligatory: part of me wonders what I could do at a transcon, or the Sri Chinmoy 3100 ... but I don't want to spend two months to find out.)

To this goal I've added to my bucket list

1. Run an overall American record at some distance (I think 48-hour and 6-day are the only theoretical possibilities)

2. Run an age-group World record. I am optimistic about this one; I turn 55 in two weeks, and the 55-59 100-mile WR is 15:14. I ran 14:44 this Feb. I'm going to go for this as a split during Desert Solstice 24-hour this year, while knocking off as many new AG ARs as I can.