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My first attempt at the Beast of the East 100 (formerly Monadnock Ultras) was during its inaugural year in December 2019. I quit after mile 83. I suppressed the memories so hard that I didn’t even want to read my own race recap to prep for this race. When Richard announced the December 2020 race …
I entered the lottery for the 2021 Umstead 100 Mile Endurance Run in September 2020. Although I didn’t win the lottery, I was the next 25 on the waitlist. On 26JAN21, Rhonda, the Race Director, invited me to the race and would have until 30JAN21 to decide. I agonized every day whether I should sign …
05APR21 – I started this post in December and gave myself a deadline of January to finish it, but I am a procrastinator and finishing it now four months late. I didn’t get to race as much in 2020 just like everyone else due to COVID, but that didn’t stop me from being active. According …
I started the year in training for the Georgia Death Race that was supposed to be in March, right about when the world was shutting down due to COVID. One positive thing about having commitment issues and being the type of runner who typically registers for races the week/morning of and letting the lottery decide …
2019 was an epic year! Below are the highlights of my training/racing. 01JAN– first run of the year was in Edinburgh, Scotland (may or may not have been hungover) 13JAN – swam with manatees in Crystal River, Florida before having fun at the Walt Disney World Marathon (4:56:03) 26JAN – celebrated the anniversary of running …
15OCT19 – is when originally signed up for Monadnock 50 miler. I can’t remember what my thought process was for this decision as I was tapering for Uwharrie 100. I think no matter what happens at the outcome of whichever race I prepping for, I had something else to look forward to. Plus I started …
Location: Uwharrie National ForestThe Course: 5 x 20.5 miles, figure 8 loop, 100% single-track Hills – “Sasquatch” Mile 7.4, “Soul Crusher” Mile 8.4, and “Hallucination Hill” – Mile 16Total Elevation: Over 17,000′Events: 100 Mile, 100k, and the inaugural Gold Rush 50k 07JUL18 – The first time I ran one of the monthly Uwharrie training runs, …
02DEC18 – My first time hearing about the Mattamuskeet Death March (MdM) was at the Nutcracker 12 Hour. There, I met the MdM race director Brandon Wilson. We ran the first few miles together while chasing after George in his pink Christmas Story bunny costume. He told me about MdM because I shared with him …
I didn’t write a blog for June because I didn’t have any races, but it was still a good month because I started off June 1st with a 15-mile run which brought my total for 2019 to 1000 miles. Then I had my ICL surgery on the 11th which has been a HUGE blessing and …
May has been such a great month! First, I returned home from two weeks at Fort McCoy as the Army’s newest Master Resiliency Trainer. I got back late Friday night, but it didn’t matter because it was during four day weekend for Mother’s Day. I still got up early Saturday morning to run with the …