I had never heard of this race until I read this article. This is one race I am confident I will never, ever do.
Rules Change
Short term goal: 17:59 5K
Mid term goal: 2:54:59 marathon
Long term goal: To say I've been a runner half my life. (I started running at age 45).
Smaller By The Day
Come on LTH. Let's go, stand at the base of the mountain and drink beer while they struggle up and down the mountain. We'll be the real winners.
Improvements
Weight 100 pounds lost
5K 31:02 Sept. 2012 / 23:36 Sept. 2013 (Same Course)
10K 48:59 April 2013
HM 2:03:56 Nov. 2012 / 1:46:50 March 2013
MARATHON 3:57:33 Nov. 2013
Sounds like fun.
Seriously, wow.
Damaris
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Hip Redux
There was a great RW article about this guy and his disappearance - really crazy shit. He basically just vanished off the face of the planet - nothing of him was ever found.
Here's the link.
Barking Mad To Run
Yeah, i read that article. Crazy, and very sad for his family and friends. Where the heck did this guy go?
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
Running Bear
Most of Alaska is bear country. And we tend to resemble cheeseburgers to bears. Sooooo.....
Upcoming races: Mt. Cheaha 50K 2/22Georgia Death race 100K 3/15-16Sweetwater 50K 4/12Cruel Jewel 100 5/16-17Make It By Midnight FM 7/XXH9 50 mile 8/9Georgia Jewel 100 9/27Pacing at Pinhoti 100 11/XXDunkin Ridge Trail 50K 11/XXLookout Mtn 50 mile 12/20
#artbydmcbride
They usually spit out the shoes tho.....I say sinkhole.
Runners run
Did you actually read of all that?
YAYpril - B-Plus
I read the whole story that Oski linked, in my copy of RW. I grew up in Alaska so it was really interesting to me. But yeah, tons of bears. I have a great picture of a baby black bear I took on our last visit there to see my parents. He was just hanging out on the side of the road.
SheCan
That race looks amazing! It sounds like they're doing their best to keep it from happening again, but sometimes you just have to accept that life can be dangerous. His just disappearing like that with some many people around though, is pretty curious.
"Race organizers are not to blame for LeMaitre's disappearance, Clock said.
"Look at us as a society. When something goes wrong, we want to blame somebody," she said. "It's how we cope."
Cherie
"We do not become the people who this world needs simply by turning our backs on anyone we don’t like, trust, or deem healthy enough to be in our presence. " ---- Shasta Nelson
Yes.
Want to hear how geeky I am? The DH and I go out to breakfast on the weekend and read our running and biking mags. Some people read the NY Times with coffee.... we read Trail Runner. lol
Runs4Sanity
That isn't geeky! Trail Runner and Dirty Mag are awesome to read, and a lot better than NY Times in my opinion, they inspire me to make an excuse to change up my running plans to get out on trails
Yes. Want to hear how geeky I am? The DH and I go out to breakfast on the weekend and read our running and biking mags. Some people read the NY Times with coffee.... we read Trail Runner. lol
*Do It For Yourself, Do It Because They Said It Was Impossible, Do It Because They Said You Were Incapable*
PRs
5k - 24:15 (7:49 min/mile pace)
10k - 51:47 (8:16 min/mile pace)
15k -1:18:09 (8:24 min/mile pace)
13.1 - 1:53:12 (8:39 min/mile pace)
26:2 - 4:14:55 (9:44 min/mile)
Super B****
I remember reading about this race a few months back... never, ever want to do something like that. But IIRC, didn't they have to sign a waiver back then too??
chasing the impossible
because i never shut up ... i blog
Right now I really wish I could go back into the past to a happier time, 10 minutes ago, before I ever heard of the term "cadaver dog".
Dave
Want to hear how geeky I am?
We all have our favorite things to read or do, that's not geeky at all. My attention span is simply too short to get through something like that.