NJ Trail Series “Makes Running Fun”
August 29, 2010 by Bounce · Leave a Comment
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
Quote of the Day
August 28, 2010 by Bounce · Leave a Comment
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race. It’s up to you.
Dave Scott, Triathleteave Scott, triathlete
Equine Hunting on the Quinimay Trail
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 moreAlong the Trail of GUs – Bear Mountain 50 Mile
May 22, 2010 by Bounce · 10 Comments
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
Bounce Runs Like A Girl in Philly
December 4, 2009 by Bounce · 4 Comments
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
Hankering For Cheese in Philadelphia
November 25, 2009 by Bounce · 3 Comments
While running the Philadelphia Marathon I see the half marathon finish to the right and the rest of the marathon continues to the left. To “Mile 14″ it says. I was kind of wishing I had done the half. I looked up and I was behind a woman who had a shirt on that said, “Will Run For Cheese”. Read more
Stone Cat 50 Race Report 2009
November 13, 2009 by Bounce · 7 Comments
As I was leaving my driveway on the Friday night before the Stone Cat 50 Miler, I said to Gretchen, lets zero the trip odometer on the car and really see where 50 miles is. Running mostly in the trails, its hard to quantify that distance in my head. You know, a lot of loops, out and backs, varied terrain, you get the picture. A couple of years back in Scranton,PA at the Steamtown Marathon, I drove to the start of that marathon to drive the route with Gretchen. It was the first time I drove the route of a point to point marathon. Wow, it was long. I really got a sense of the distance we travel. So, traveling up I-91 the odometer is clicking away. We reach Hartford, we are not at 50 miles yet. We turn onto I-84 East and head all the way to Manchester, near the Buckland Hills Mall, and the odometer finally hits 50 miles. Holy ***t, this is far. I know 50 miles is far, but “BLAM”, reality check. Read more
Selfishness or Selflessness? Crewing and Pacing in Vermont
July 27, 2009 by Bounce · 7 Comments
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
MorFun in Mass.
May 12, 2009 by Bounce · 6 Comments
While others were enjoying a race on one of my favorite islands, I was having MorFun in the mountains of southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. I had decided to run this week’s Grand Tree race, the MorFun Wapack Trail Race 21 Miler. I was going to run it last year, but was hurt and not able to run it, so this was a little unfinished business. Read more
Watermelon Woes in the Promise Land
May 1, 2009 by Bounce · 7 Comments
2009 Promise Land 50K++ Adventure. Where to start??? Okay how about from the beginning. Our adventure begins Thursday afternoon when I met Ultra at his house in New Haven to give him a ride to the rental car place to get our car for the trip. Presented with a few similar cars to choose from, his only request to me was to not choose the red one because it attracts the police. In my mind, I said to myself ”We are in for a ride this weekend” Read more
