The first time I ever heard about the Escarpment Trail run was from Mr. Bimble just a few months ago. He said you gotta try this one and I have extra applications if you want one. I checked out the website and was doubtful I would be doing it. But after some interactions with other bimblers I was a little more convinced I should give it a go. Lefty was sure he would get me to sign up. I emailed the R.D. and he said there are still openings but you should hurry up and mail it in. After some hesitation I mailed my entry form. Two and half weeks of waiting impatiently I finally received the word I was accepted. One problem is that I had rolled my ankle a few days before and I was determined I would be healed enough by the time of race day . [Read more...]

There is nothing easy about taking on the Escarpment Trail 30k. Suds, Shelly Girl and I left from the Killingworth Traffic Circle at 4:a.m. We needed to make it to North Lake Campground in Haines Falls New York in time to catch the bus to the start. For the first hour there was torrential rain, which was not only difficult to drive in but made us all wonder if this was foreshadowing as to what the race would be like. [Read more...]

It all began in the Promise Land.  You know, the one in Virginia.  Ultra, myself, and Sandy Beauvis talked on our long trip down to the Promise Land 50K++ about her misadventures with her pacer in last year’s Vermont 100.  I believe it was Ultra who said you should pace Sandy at the Vermont 100 this year.  If it wasn’t him I’m sure he would have sooner or later, so we’ll leave it at that.  Pacing would be new to me, having only to worry about me in a race.  I was nervous.  To maybe be the difference in somebody’s race, a 100 mile race, good or bad, scared the ***t out of me.  I let the idea wallow without any definite answer. [Read more...]