Races and Adventures

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Little did I know when I woke up Sunday morning that I would find out one of my students had a brain aneurism and would not make it to see to Thanksgiving. Little did I know when I woke up on Sunday that a fellow music teacher had died of a heart attack. Little did I know that I would run the Lil Rhody Runaround in memoriam to these two fellow human beings. [Read more…] about Lil Rhody in memoriam

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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…] about Stone Cat 50 Race Report 2009

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So I find myself in Vermont on Sunday the 25^th, the same day as my fellow Bimblers are challenging themselves to run the Bluff race.  I’m feeling a little sad to not be participating so NOV and I decide we need to step up and challenge ourselves too!  We discuss the rail trail that Forrest suggested but decided, “no, too easy!”.  So we take a look in the book at the concierge desk for trails but they all say “easy”.  After some searching, ah ha, we find what we’re looking for – Camel’s Hump Park in Huntington. [Read more…] about My Bluff Empathy Run