100 miles from an 11 year old

August 21, 2010 by forrest · 5 Comments 

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BR100 was an awesome adventure. We woke at 6 am to get ready to go to our first aid station of the day, we got lost on the way and saw mom anyway. She was surprised!! When we finally got to Shadow Lake, we met up with Brian and Jay. When we saw mom, she was doing pretty darn good!! Read more

Special Today for Tonight’s Appearance

August 12, 2010 by forrest · Leave a Comment 

“Live long. Climb high. And run far.”

Christopher McDougall

North Cove Outfitters Presents Radical Reels

August 11, 2010 by forrest · 1 Comment 

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In the past several Bimbler’s have attended these presentations and enjoyed the show. Below are details of the latest offering called The Radical Reels Tour, which hopefully will be of sufficient interest to make it into a mini road trip to see.

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Post-race Advice from The Bard

August 5, 2010 by forrest · Leave a Comment 

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

William Shakespeare

Vermont 100 – A Year and a Day

July 26, 2010 by forrest · 13 Comments 

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The year and a day rule was a principle of English law holding that a death was conclusively presumed not to be murder (or any other homicide) if it occurred more than a year and one day since the act (or omission) that was alleged to have been its cause. The rule also applied to the offence of assisting with a suicide. Read more

All About Running… or maybe not.

July 20, 2010 by forrest · Leave a Comment 

“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You Can Do It”… Who said that?

July 19, 2010 by forrest · 1 Comment 

“Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning”

from “The Prince”

July 9, 2010 by forrest · 1 Comment 

“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Finger Lakes Fifties: Following The Rules

July 8, 2010 by forrest · 7 Comments 

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Mr. Bimble has, from time to time, admonished me to not pay TOO much money per mile of race. As a “good consumer”, I strive for the “holy grail” of $1/mile. Ultra recently reminded me that it is best to not spend more time driving to/from the race than is spent RUNNING the race. With all these rules firmly in mind, I went to the race to accomplish some goals. Read more

Try

July 7, 2010 by forrest · 1 Comment 

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.”

Sir Francis Bacon

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