Truth lies within
The Boston Marathon has made a new registration process. The faster you beat your qualifying time the earlier you get to register. They are also lowering the times to qualify by 5 minutes across the board. Translating into, its going to be harder to get in. See link below for the news release:
Fans of the National Lampoon Vacation films will recognize this homage to the scene from European Vacation when the Griswolds get stuck in a roundabout in London and can’t move to the left to get out. They keep passing the same scenery over and over for hours. This is what I expected from my first foray into a fixed time race. However, it wasn’t as bad as I expected.
Back on Sunday November 14th, I participated in the Rhode Island 6 Hour Ultramarathon and Relay in Warwick, RI. Being busy at work and going on vacation around Thanksgiving, I never finished my race report. So I waited for a slow time on the Bimbler website and resurrected by uncompleted report. So here it is.
Seven miles into the Mountain Madness 50K at the Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, several runners and I came upon an unmarked, unblazed section of the course. The course description, which I had printed out, placed in a plastic bag, and now referred to, was no help. It stated to continue on the fire road to the aid station. As is often the case with course descriptions written by people who are too familiar with a race course, they see it as an obvious decision on which way to go. In front of me were three roads/trails to choose from. They forked out in the general direction we were supposed to go. Which to choose? Decisions, Decisions, Decisions. [Read more...]
Gretchen is not big on writing race reports, so I will give a short report on my experience at this years Hartford Marathon for her. Going into the Hartford Marathon, Gretchen had not been happy with her training. Hot, humid weather made hitting her pace goals tough, and then there was the Fall Marathon stigma. [Read more...]
I stumbled upon this series last year while looking for some races closer to home. Rick McNulty started this series with a goal in mind. “The goal of the NJ Trail Series is to make running FUN again”. The best part of it is that most of the events are within a two hour drive from most of us, give or take a little. It started with a couple of Fat Ass events and some races, to a year round series that has something for everyone. He has short trail races, an ultra running festival with distances up to 100 miles, and timed events. Well, the timed event is for the running masochist in us all. [Read more...]
Where are the horses? Ultrarunning advice is not to do anything new on race day, so I set out to run with horses on the Quinimay Trail. [Read more...]
5:00 AM Start. Last shuttle to the Start from parking area is 4:15 AM. Okay, that means I need to leave my house by 2:00 AM. Get everything ready the night before and a 1:30 wake up it is. I awoke when I heard my teenage son go to bed at 1:15. Ironic, as youth goes to bed, maturity awakes to take on a 50 mile race in the mountains. Well I said mature not smart. [Read more...]
All right, don’t get your panties all in a knot. I know that most of you woman are faster than me, especially on the road. Before you start emailing me or calling me, read my report and see why I ran like a girl. [Read more...]
The rocks are where they are- this is their will. The rivers flow-this is their will. The birds … [Read More...]
