tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67841948330950525452024-03-12T20:11:59.396-07:00....miles to go before I sleep........miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.comBlogger1135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-38228243662768738942022-06-05T23:29:00.006-07:002022-06-05T23:55:10.866-07:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>After almost 3 1/2 years, I have decided to revive my blog. This started out as a way for me to vent aggravations, movie reviews, and pondering. Then I started running and it became 85% running, hiking, and race reports. My last few posts back in 2018 described my decaying abilities due to a nagging knee energy. I still get out a but very infrequently and if it weren’t for my dogs Zeke and Roxie who expect a walk/hike/shuffle adventure including lots of stuff to smell and pee on.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My last serious endeavors at running 100 miles was a at Cloudsplitter where I switched distances mid-race dropping from the 100 mile to the 100K; and at Tunnel Hill where the severe cold weather a gradual slowing in pace made dropping at 50 miles my most sensible option. I decided to give up on running 100-anything and hoping for a worn out right knee would somehow get better. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I have ran shorter distances—halfs, 25Ks, 10Ks, 5ks, but fewer than. 2 or 32 races a year, and fewer than 300 miles a year including walks ands dog walks. It seemed like there was no sense in blogging about going for a walk. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>I am tired of being sad, feeling sorry for myself, and having my own private pity party (ppp.) I am as of now gonna try to get back in rather game. I’ll post my meager accomplishments as unimpressive as they may seem. Maybe I’ll find a slight uptick in my times. And maybe I’ll make these posts public. I lost my domain to my blog, and may see if I can find a blog platform I like better. Blogspot/Blogger are so glitchy. But for now, hopefully I can use this new domain. www.trailzombie.run</span></b></span></p><p><br /></p>....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-25843218144481991802018-11-12T22:55:00.003-08:002022-06-09T21:10:29.502-07:00Tunnel Hill. This is all I'm gonna say about it.<div data-block="true" data-editor="8gdl" data-offset-key="3ru4e-0-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="3ru4e-0-0" style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">I am a believer. I believe I can run 100 miles. Yes--all at once. I have done it before. I have ran with beaming authority, and have ran with the flicker of a waning candlelight. I have ran and failed. I have quit when I should have kept going. I have kept going when I should have quit. I have ran and failed because I overtrained. I have ran and somehow succeeded in spite of having not trained. Yet in all of this, I believed I could run 100 miles.</b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tunnel Hill was going to be a crossroads for me. It is an easy 100--if running 100 miles can ever be considered easy. A rails to trails course--no rocks or roots to trip </span></b><b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">over, no steep hills, practically no hills at all, a 30 hour time limit (Who can't do 18-minute miles anyway?) To assure I would win this quest, I hired a coach. My friend Chrissy Whitten, who is the most inspirational athlete I have ever known. Chrissy had regular conference calls with me to discuss my diet and training. I do have to admit that at times I fudged a little on reporting how much fudge I had eaten, made excuses for the scales not going down, and may or may not have inflated my miles a little—but was still honest enough to say I had not gotten in all the miles I needed to. I even convinced myself to believe that time on feet equals training. Now that I think about that, you do see fat mailmen all the time. But back to the original train of thought--I was considering this race to be my last hoorah, or the beginning of a resurgence. My hopes were high and I truly believed I could do it.</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our journey from Oklahoma to Illinois was uneventful but fun. We drove during the night so as to get situated and not feel rushed. Getting there early would mean a little more sleep. That really didn't come to pass. I got seven hours and would have liked more.</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Race morning, we woke up early, I gathered my scattered race supplies, lubed this, taped that, drank this, nibbled on that, packed my drop bag tor the 4th time, and loaded up and headed out. We got a so-so parking place, found a secret place to stash my drop bag near the race course (I'm a rebel.) The race started on time and we were off. Right out of the chute, I felt I was running too fast, but everyone was and I was herded along. </span></b></div>
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Soon on the nice crushed limestone, I settled in to 13 minute miles with an occasional walk break. Things were going well. But around mile 4 (I think it was a few miles later than that but my coach says it was mile 4) I started feeling tiredness and fatigue even though my Strava showed our pace stayed steady until mile 11. Chrissy said I had a pained look on my face that she had never seen before. I call it NO COFFEE. But at mile 11, I was doing more walking than running and it was not a walk-with-purpose pace. We met up with Roman and those two walked ahead and I could just feel them talking about me and what to do!! I usually go to counting steps to regulate my pace, but we were not gelling with that method. Then Chrissy said in her best Jigsaw voice, "I wanna play a game." The game was for her to run 103 steps then walk 103 steps and me to do the same. But if she got ahead, I had to continue running to catch up. Being behind shortened my walk break--no big deal, but if I got too far behind, then who knows what might happen?? Well--as quirky as this sounds, our pace picked up and we were in the 14-16 minute mile zone for the rest of the first out and back.</b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back at the start/finish, I got my drop bag and pondered putting on a warmer jacket because the warmish 24 degrees had not improved, and the second out and back would take until after dark. I had sat still too long (only a few minutes) and began shivering uncontrollably. I made myself get off the picnic bench and trot to the trail, We got back into our routine and alternated 103 steps, or running until the next sign, or odd tree, or bridge. Things were working. </span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">At mile 32, I began to have a little bit of pain in my bad knee. The trail was climbing a little. We gained almost 400 feet in 4 miles. Now that's not a bad ascent at all, but my knee disagreed. I was holding our pace back from 15 minute miles to an 18:45. It was not getting any better. I popped a couple of Ibuprofens, a caffeine pill, and a 5-hour energy all to no avail. It was time for the talk. I had to let Chrissy leave me so she would have a fighting chance to get her 100 mile buckle.</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was our sad parting. There were smiles, but tears followed.</td></tr>
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<span data-offset-key="3ru4e-0-0" style="color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">The following is from my Facebook page, and it summarizes my race in a reader's digest fashion.</b></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3ru4e-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"My 100 mile quest was cut down. Cut in half. It was not meant to be. The body was not having it. But me and my leg compromised, and it hung in there for a slower journey and a very hard earned 50 (actually 51.75) mile finish.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></i></blockquote>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><i><span data-offset-key="2onfa-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I usually hate it when people say That's nothing to be ashamed of--50 miles is amazing--That's more than most people could ever dream of doing--Hang your head high--etc etc. I simply signed up for the wrong race, and 50 miles was a hard challenge for me, and I won the challenge. It hurt. It was the coldest long run and longest cold run I have ever done. I am proud of my accomplishment--it was all I could do--even more that what I thought I was going to be able to finish.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></i></span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><i><span data-offset-key="1ao8r-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I am proud and amazed at my friends who toughed out 100 miles in sub 20 wind-chills and low 20 degree actual temperatures. There's a lot of bad-assery in the crowd I hang out with. Including Kathy Bratton, Bryan Carpenter, Jana Graham, Gwen Hornsey, Alecia Ramsey, Russell Bennett, Christine Fischer, Abby Ivey, Cheryl Kastl, Jememy Harrison, Micah Blevins, Heather Blake, and Jeff Lewman.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></i></span></b></blockquote>
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style="font-family: inherit;">--my friend and coach. She pushed me, and brought me out of a bad spot on the first out and back that would have derailed my race. She knows all the mind games and tricks to make this zombie move. But later before the long climb to the tunnel, we had a tearful parting. My knee was putting a huge damper on my pace, and I let her go to run down her 100 mile buckle. Sadly, she developed what we are afraid may be a stress fracture and I drove out to Karnak to pick her up at mile 61.5.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></i></span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="98d06-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>So we both scored 50 mile buckles. (Now I have to say this--I am not a fan of buckles for races shorter than 100 miles, but I accept this one since I worked harder that I have in a lot of 100 mile races. I am proud to have it. Of course, I have put a ribbon on it.)"</i></span></span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Another thing--during the night when I was wondering why I left the Tunnel Hill aid station at mile 42 and did not have another aid station for 6+ miles and my knee hurt with every footfall. What if I reached a point where I could not go on? I just made careful steps, and my mode of movement was my shuffle. I was maintaining an 18-20 minute per mile pace. My friends Jodee and Candy had ran a little ways with me and had shared their hand warmers. I had what I thought were very good OR gloves, but my fingers were freezing. I finally used my gloves more like mittens and just made a fist and ground my fingertips into the hand warmer pads. My arms looked like I had deformed limp hands. But my fingers were slightly warmer.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">While I was shuffling and considering what might happen if things got worse, something happened. My friend Lisa called to check on me. I of course told her I was doing fine, and just loved being alone in the cold bitterness of Illinois, when she announced that she was gonna pace me in to the finish by phone!! We chatted for an hour or so, but my iPhone succumbed to the sub freezing temps and had it's battery prematurely zapped. I managed to warm it back up enough to call back to tell her a bear had not ended my life. She was the help I needed to make a daunting journey doable. And it was.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Now what? Bad time to ask. But suffice to say I am not through running.</span></b></div>
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My last post was about the frustration of having a messed up meniscus and the on again/off again/on again pain that keeps me from running the way I want, and what I am doing about it. It wasn't meant as a woe-is-me thing, but just expressing my frustration and exposing the folly of my chasing every glimmer of hope looking for a miracle cure. Most of my running friends know what I have been dealing with, and have been sympathetic to my situation. Some have encouraged me to just tough it out, which is what I have been doing for better or worse. I can't say trying to run through it has helped or hindered my recovery and knee health. As mentioned, the several different herbs and snake oil concoctions have helped maybe a little. a well-times pain pill seems to help for the moment. Super Beets has put a little bit of pep in my step--figuratively speaking.</div>
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I read a lot on knee issues such as mine, and I stumbled on an article that ties in overpronation with kee issues EXACTLY like what I have. Hello. My name is Ken Childress and I am an overpronator. </div>
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I've been that way since I was a kid. see how the right leg rolls in just above the ankle? That could very well be my leg--well, maybe if I shaved it. There was no unfortunate accident that led to this mild deformity. when I first started running again in 2002, I wore road running shoes that had motion control, recommended by my favorite running store RunnersWorld-Tulsa and bought them from a shoe sales lady who ended up being my best friend. Road running shoes like Asics Gel Kayano and the 2000 and 2100 series have the inward side of the sole either built up a little and that brings that leg back into alignment. But I eventually found that I dislike road running and prefer trailz and trail shoes rarely have any pronation control features since every step is different on the trail. That never seemed to bother me.<br />
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But since my knee problems, which have been ongoing for four years or so, it seems while running on flat pavement that my right leg seems a wee bit shorter than my left leg. So I am thinking--a slight build-up on the inward side of my foot could possibility correct that. Could it be that easy???<br />
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So, I conducted an experiment. I have many many pairs of old shoes that I just cannot seem to throw away, so I robbed an insole out of one, and in the confines of my shoe research lab (aka the bathroom), I modified an old insole to correct my pronation.<br />
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Figure 1. Start cut in about the middle of the back of the insole, angling toward the right side about 1/3 of the length.<br />
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Figure 2. Admire handiwork, and go to the kitchen for a beer.<br />
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Figure 3. Inset modified insole into the shoe.<br />
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Figure 4. Put the removed insole from the shoe on top of the modified insole.<br />
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Figure 5. Done. Finish beer, and then try those puppies on.<br />
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Right away, I know I was on to something. Something wonderful. I walked around and within 50 steps, I got that "awwwww" feeling. It felt so right. My knee was NOT hurting. It was like there was nothing wrong. I wore my Hokas to dinner and then walked the dogs. Virtually no discomfort at all. Seriously, this does take pressure off of my bum knee. Now I know there may be a better solution like a new pair of Gel Kayanos or some other new and snazzy motion control shoe with a built-up medial post. But my experiment has me believing that this is the miracle cure I have been trying to find!!....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-858502722543787172018-08-24T23:41:00.000-07:002018-08-25T16:14:30.999-07:00a post with no pictures, and lots of aches and pains<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the last 7 weeks, I have ran a whopping total
of 43.3 miles. That's less that .9 of a mile per day, and would not even
qualify as a taper. WHY???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Well, a few
reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. My
on-again/off-again knee problem has just been more bad than good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. I have
been way too busy at work, coming home too tired to run at night when I have in
years past done most of my training.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. My work,
which frequently involves getting on a ladder, puts a lot of strain on my knee,
and pain as spread to my hip.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">4. I have
made somewhat of a conscience attempt to rest by not running.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I hate all of
the above. Running is who I am, it's what I do. My grand running season began
it's crash with Honey Badger, and doing Urban Adventure, another 100, seems
unlikely. Tunnel Hill, my goal race, is still in the plans, but any hope of a
respectable finish is gone. I guess I am revising that expectation and
embracing that sub-29:59:59 DFL as a victory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">What am I
doing to work on my problem--besides nothing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1. Diet. I
have cut way back on sugar. Now understand that I LOVE my sweets. Can't say
that I have totally wiped sugar off of my planet, but I am consuming way
less.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2. Lots of
supplements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">
A. I take Arthrozene, which is supposed to relieve discomfort and stiffness,
increase flexibility and mobility, and work in as little as 5 days. I have
noticed maybe a little--very little affect with these. I wild continue them for
35 more days and then decide if I will continue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">
B. Joint FLX, which protects against joint discomfort and stiffness, support
joint flexibility, and strengthen joint mobility. Ditto on the results.
These two basically are supposed to be doing the same thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">
C. Cardio Clear, which is mostly for heart health and cognitive function. I am
a sucker for these 45 minute videos that promise a wonder-cure for all my
ailments, and you have to sit through the whole stinking video to see what
the stuff is, and by then I am caught hook, line, and sinker. I have
another couple of infomercial concoctions in the way, each guaranteeing the
miracle cure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">
D. SUPER BEETS. I hate beets. I have bad childhood memories of having beets on
my plate and having to eat them. Eating them resulted in projectile
vomiting--I just could not chew them or swallow them. Not eating them sometimes
resulted in having my butt spanked. And if you don't eat your beets, you
can't have any pudding. How can you haver any pudding if you don't at your
beets? Pink Floyd used this in a song, I think. But SUPER BEETS boosts Nitric
Oxide, provides healthy circulation, healthy blood pressure levels, and
increased energy and stamina. My resting heart rate used to be around 60,
and recently was as high as 82-83. Now it's down to 70. I do feel like I have
more energy and stamina. Maybe the Cardio Clear has a little to do with this
too? I nix SUPER BEETS powder with 12 ounces of orange juice every morning. I
love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">
E. CBD oil and salve. I have not noticed any difference with the oil,
although I just had a small bottle and am out. The salve seems no better
or worse than Bio Freeze or Deep Heat, or Ben Gay. I would not rule out
using wither of these products, but an not particularly impressed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3. Biking.
Only once, but I do need to work more biking into my life. I have a so-so road
bike and a good mountain bike. We also have a Peloton bike.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">4. Massage.
My friend Lisa Butler works my legs over every weekend. She is awesome, and
after each session, I feel well. If that wellness would stay, that would
be great. Besides knowing exactly where to do her torture, she is a wealth
of knowledge on running and fitness. I feel privileged to have her as a
friend.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">5.
Stretching. This started from how I dealt with lover back pains. Nothing bad,
but pulling my knees to my chest really help me. Other stretches and
rolling on the foam roller hurts yet helps.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">6. Knee braces and wraps. I have boiught several, and at first they seem like they help, but on warm humid days they slide around mostly downward and it seems they don't do much in anything.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">7. My
ortho-doc who did my meniscus repair a few years back gives me a gel injection
every 6 months, and that gives my knee some very noticeable relief. It's
an expensive procedure, but not really a cure. I may go see him for
another MRI on the knee and hip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Since I have
had a couple if slightly better days, I think I will do a little slow running
over the weekend. If you see me limping, don't feel sorry for me. If you know a
miracle sure, I'm all ears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-35214931690260686652018-07-20T00:04:00.000-07:002018-08-13T00:08:08.667-07:00Honey Badger and other related stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My diligence on keeping my blog updated has been waning as of late. I can easily blame it on work, plus I am possibly the world's worst procrastinator. But since my blog has evolved into mostly a running sounding board, I haven't really had any hoorahs that I wanted to write about.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Honey Badger. Mitch and I crewed and paced Lynna at this race two years ago, and for a race that is touted as being tough, even to the point of proclaiming it to be the mid-states version of Badwater, "I" thought it was an easy race. The only two things that made it harder than a cake walk was that it is all on pavement, and it is in July when it most likely will be hot and humid. I, being quite acclimated to the heat, decided to give it a go. I even trained a little for it. I had a 2-day running streak, I ran a few long runs in the 20-mile range on pavement. I ran a gravel 50K in March, a mostly gravel 50-mile in May, a couple of halves and a full sprinkled in there. My ever-present knee thing was behaving--not 100% but a solid 80%. Lynna was running the race again and had her eyes on a USATF women's age group record which she would earn by finishing this race. For the record to count, the course had to be certified by the USATF, and most 100 milers are not certified. Lynna had ample crew support, and so did I. We thought we would at least run some of the way together, but I knew that she would be too fast for me in the early going, and if I happened to catch up, we would likely run together for a while.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I ran a 20-miler the weekend before at the Midnight Madness event in Tulsa. I had a good run but decided since the course was 1/4 of a mile from my house, I would run home and get my dogs and run with them on an out-and-back. Bad idea. They were happy about getting u at 5:00 am for a run and were amped up about getting a rabbit chase in the wee hours of the morning. Sure enough, there were rabbits on the trail and they bolted after one on the steep downhill from the Turkey Mountain parking lot. I put on the brakes and held them, but I should have let them go. I jammed my bad knee for 3-4 long strides and was hurting a little from that point on. I took them back home and proceeded to finish the last 405 miles of my race. I was running intervals--100 strides at a quick pace (about 10 m/m), 100 steps power walking, and 100 steps shuffling. My power walking was about 30 seconds per mile faster than my shuffle, which seemed odd. About a mile from the end of the race, I stopped to chat with a runner coming back the other way, and when I resumed my forward progress, I couldn't put any weight in my right leg. My knee and hip hurt really bad--like my body weighed 1000 pounds. When I lifted my foot, then my foot weighed 1000 pounds. I really thought I was gonna have to call someone to pick me u, but managed to tough it out. After the race, I went home, showered, took a pain pill and crashed in the easy chair. When I woke up, my body and/or leg didn't weigh 1000 pounds anymore, but I was still tentative in my walking.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I worked my normal work week and things seemed better, but I really had my concerns with 100 miles of asphalt at Honey Badger--but I still went. Johnna came with me to crew and pace, and David West also drove up to help out. Starting the race, I felt fine. The temperatures were supposed to be a little on the cool side, but low 90s was still a possibility. I ran the first 10 miles or so at a comfortable pace--I was in last place, but still well within the pace I needed to run. Plus, I was slowly catching up with a runner.</span></b><br />
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<b>Johnna and David met me every 3-4 miles and gave me snacks and Pedialyte. (I am a real believer with generic Pedialyte. It is so much better than Gatorade there is no comparison.) I had brought a wide variety of food--pro-bars, boiled eggs, stuff for salomi and mustard sandwiches, cookies, little containers of strawberries with chia seeds (AWESOMENESS), Fritos and Pringles, chocolate milk, Starbucks coffee drinks, and I am sure I am forgetting about a dozen other items. </b><br />
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<b>Johnna would come out to meet me and grabbed my pack to top off my water, and I had already told her what I wanted so she had my sandwich ready or whatever other food-stuff sounded good. My crew was a well-oiled machine. I was there and gone in 60 seconds every time. (This picture was actually in the Cheney Lake area. Here's the DFL guy.)</b><br />
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<b>I did catch the runner ahead of me. He was in his 70s, and from Wisconsin--where they have no humidity. He was melting down and eventually dropped at about 26 miles into the race. (No pride in passing a 70-year old who was overheating.) Still, I was averaging 16-minute miles, but at about mile 27, I started slowing down. Nothing hurt (I dod have the beginnings of a hot spot) but I could not make myself speed up. I could do maybe 50 strides faster, but then I just had to slow down. That's when I started doing runners math. I had to get to mile 53 by 16 hours--basically an 18 minute per mile pace. I was losing my time cushion, and I knew that by mile 40-45, My average pace would have dropped below 18 minutes per mile. It didn't help that the sun popped out from behind some clouds and beat down hard on us poor runners. we also lost a good south breeze that made things bearable. At mile 34, I pulled the plug. I went back and forth on the decision. Gradually, I was starting to feel the pain in y knee. If it turned into what had happened the weekend before, that would surely end my run. And by my fuzzy math, I was correct in admitting I could not make the cut-off time at mile 53, and even if they let me go on, it would take a miracle for me to make the finish.</b></div>
<b><br /></b> <b>We drove on to the 53-mile checkpoint and waited for Lynna to come on in. She looked great. She had purposely ran a spirited pace to put time in the bank, and by doing so, she assured herself of a finish. SHe did finish and has herself planted in the record books as the 65-69 age group record holder for 100 miles. She bettered her tie from two years ago as well. Getting another record once she turns 70 probably will not happen. It seems a runner named Helen Klein ran a 100-miler in 1993 on a certified coure in 21 hours and change.</b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b>So where does my knee situation leave me? I have not rn much, but I have done a few 5-6 milers. I still have plans to run Tunnel Hill in November. I am waiting to decide on Urban Adventure in September. I am doing some exercises and stretching that is helping. I am seeing Lisa Butler once a week who is doing some intense leg smashing and deep tissue massage, and I am seeing good results fro that. I need to work some biking into my training, and that will happen. Yoga too, although I am not sure about those yoga pants.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As part of my ongoing "training", I traversed the Armadillo Ultra (for me it was a half ultra.) This ace at Osage Hills State Park is such a diverse combination of trails and terrain, that any trail runner should experience it. I have been a part of this race for the past 4 years, and the past two I have been able to RUN it.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I left out of Tulsa plenty early to chat with friends, get signed up, and ready myself mentally. AAs you can see from the above picture, I had not gathered myself mentally just yet. More coffee was needed.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Well, the usual crawling out from the start line was with me again. I should try actually running the 1st quarter mile in a race for a change. But here, I knew there would be a log-jam when we reached Sand Creek Falls. I also knew I would take some pictures, so I let the race go. I buried myself so far behind in tme that I was guaranteed a lonely solo run. Funny thing is, I kind of like that.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A mile or so of flat double track with zero elevation gain. It was also a tunnel with thick tree cover. A tunnel, but not a wind tunnel. I had to hold my glasses through here because they were fogging up so bad.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">To make the distances right, a series of out and backs had to be added, I have no problem with that, although those doing the whole loop twice for the 50K, these get to be a drag. I just love someone's sence of humor with this turnaround sign.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This access road is usually unfindable. Whoever mowed or weed-eated it is a hero in my books, The worst chiggers I have ever had (and maybe the worst case of chiggers in the history of the Earth) happened at this park to ME a few years ago.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Another out and back led to Lookout Lake. This road took us up a nice little hill and made for a brief bit of non-technical running. If you absolutely must run on roads, they should be like this one.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This lake is a postcard. If I fished, I'd fish here. They also have kayaks to rent, but I have kayaks, and I am positive I'll bring them here. And maybe fish.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I always take pictures of the aid stations and volunteers, and God knows I had time for that. I hit the first one twice since I left my phone in a campground bathroom and a camper brought it back to the aid station and I made a 2K detour to get it. and remembered to get a picture of Krystal and Lisa. The second aid station you hit three times, and I was so intent on eating that I took no pictures there. But thank you Philip and Sara!!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The reason I hit this station three times was because it was the beginning and ending of the two loops on the mountain bike trailz. These trailz winded around and had several switchbacks, It was like they had 10 acres to cut 5 miles of trailz, and they actually did a great job of it--whoever planned the construction of this playground.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">When James is not taking pictures, he kills zombies with the jawbone of an ass.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I finished in 6:32 and change. If I had only been just an hour faster, I might have been next to last place. But remember, I did add 2K running back to get my phone. But other than that, I just had a slow day. And took some pictures. And just about fell off a cliff. And had a poop stop (TMI !!!) All in all, I felt great, and kept my electrolytes balanced, and stayed hydrated enough to pee a couple of times. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">OH! And I beat a few 50Kers.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Justin Walker aka Jwalk did a super great job RD-ing this race. He marked the course better than I ever did. And, he never seemed stressed out although I am sure he was at some point--it comes with the territory.</span></b>....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-56041936288029674162018-06-15T23:19:00.000-07:002018-08-08T23:37:51.259-07:00Mowdy Report<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year, I signed up for the 50 K knowing that if it got hot I would drop down to the marathon distance. I have no problem doing that, as I don’t like absolutely baking my brain out in the open spaces. The marathon and 50K started at 5 AM. Most everybody wore their headlamps, but I opted to go without one since in 15 or 20 minutes it was light enough to see. The race starts out across a small field and turns into a small wooded area and then gets back out into some open prairie. The first mile or so, it was too dark to take any pictures; but when I got into the words, the sun was starting to pick up over the horizon.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Mowdy Ranch Trail Run has a 5K, 10K a half marathon, full marathon, 50K. The course has 7 miles on the north side of the ranch and then you come back to the start finish. Then you go out for about 6.5 miles on the south end of the property. Once you do both of these loops, you have a half marathon under your belt. The marathon does the same thing twice, and the 50K does an additional shorter loop to make their distance. I’d say close to half of the runners at this event do the half marathon.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">I really didn’t have any time goals for this race. I just wanted to get a marathon or 50K, and feel good on my feet. I had hoped to get through the race with no serious knee issues—even after the race.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I always take a picture from this spot, but a photo never captures how amazing the view really is. After being in dense woods for a couple of miles, the break here in the tree cover shows a valley and a distant hill maybe 4-5 miles away. It's not Colorado, but it's still scenic.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This mile stretch is like running FlatRock. Not easy to run with tired legs.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These sunny sections were a good place to run. No roots or rocks to trip on, and the sooner you got through them the better. The warm weather eventually did take its toll on me. I hit an aid station on the north side where they filled my water bottle--and I promptly spilled it all over there M&Ms and potato chips. I felt kind of bad about that but they said oh don’t worry don’t worry. But I had used the last of their water in their water jug. They said they could get me a refill but I opted to go on since my bottle was about half full. That was a mistake. I got to the long Rocky technical section for the second time and my legs were tired enough that I really couldn’t shuffle through there. I just walked. I was sort of rationing my water were not wanting to run out before I got to the next stage station, but I still drained it and had about a mile and a half to go mostly in an open sunny field. I found myself getting really short of breath and actually had a slight bit of tightness in my chest. That spooked me, and I really wondered what I should do. Then, it occurred to me I had my cell phone and I could call my friends RJ and Michelle at the next state station. They could probably run out to meet me with a bottle of water. Three minutes later RJ came riding up on a four wheeler with a cold bottle of Gatorade and a cold bottled water. He stayed with me while I guzzled all that down and offered me a ride on in--but I wanted to stay in the race. When I got to their aid station I sit down drink another big cup of ice water and another big cup of ice Gatorade and felt like I was 100%. Or 90%--somewhere in there. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went on and I knew at this point that I was not going to make the 50 K. I expected that, but I was worried that I was not going to get to the Finishline before their cut off. I did not want to hold all the aid stations out there waiting for me. So I called my buddy Chris who was timing the rice and he assured me that I had plenty of time to finish the marathon and that there were actually quite a few 50 K years behind me. I really questioned that as I think I had been lapped by all of them and in fact I had.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I probably had about 4 miles left in my race and another four wheeler came riding out to meet me. It was Clay Melody, the owner of the Mustang Ranch, and I guess the word got around that I had had a little bit of trouble with the heat and they were concerned that I was OK. Actually I was doing great but I was very thankful that they came out to check on me.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">They gave me my finishers medal and told me not to go away, as they had a Nother special award for me. It seems the last horse in the barn gets a special award. Again that’s something kind of unique to trail run. They gave me this little gnome which I thought was just quite fitting as it was riding a turtle. It now resides in my flower garden, and it does move around a little bit but not very fast.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />So what can I take from this run? Only that trail runners are some of the greatest people in the world. I love this race, and will probably do this one every year until I’m too old to get around.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">My training--such as it is--has consisted of weeknight dog walks and races on the weekends. My goal race (or at least the first tier goal race) is Honey Badger--a 100+ miler in the flatlands of Kansas--that wide spot in the middle that has no trees. It has a 36-hour time limit which is only there to make it seem badass. The only thing hard about it is the potential for hot weather--July 7 on rural paved roads with zero shade--yep, it could be hot. So, to train for that, I need long slow runs in the heat, and War Eagle fit the bill.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> I remember this race when it was just a fat ass run--way back when the fatass description brought raised eyebrows and pissed off looks from anyone who's butt was bigger than medium. Probably less than 100 runners showed up to run on these winding twisting single track trail system. The race then was actually called the Tail Twister. Today there were 567 finishers, and probably a few who just threw in the towel mid-race, and a few who stayed at home under the covers. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Due to the RD sending the crowd backward across the War Eagle bridge to an imaginary starting line, I started the race near the front of the pack--a freakishly strange spot for me to find myself. My plan was to run with Lynna, and did for about a quarter mile. I had the everything-malfunction going on. My pack was strapped on one notch wrong, one shoe was too tight and one was too loose. No wait, they were on the wrong feet. One Injinji toe did not feel right. I needed my bandana on. Bitch bitch bitch. I walked and fixed my pack, tied my bandana on, and decided to just suck it up on the shoe thing. Since by then, I was at the back of the pack, I ventured off on a gravel road to pee, and now was in my comfy place--way back in last place.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So, most all of my pictures were just of the trailz. And what beautiful trailz they are--very well groomed without many unnecessary switchbacks. The tree cover was thick, and the skies were mostly cloudy for the first part of the race, and I lost my sense of which way was north or any direction. I knew up and down, but it seemed like <span style="background-color: white;">for the most part, but had no clue of how the course would take me. Fortunately, it was very well marked.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">At one point somewhere, there was a splinter tail that seemed to lead to an overlook. I took the turn and saw a group of cattle enjoying a float trip. I got passed here by some people who either got lost, found a porta pot and let the old guy pass them.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This is what running is supposed to be. Just dirt, trees, and a breeze here and there if you're lucky. The 25K ran one big loop. The 50K ran two of these loops. It gets confusing here though. They also had another small loop that they had to do. The starting line and the finish line were at different places. The 50K did not return to the starting line, but their second loop was short so they added on X amount of mileage to make it 31.1 miles. If that makes sense, then I have done a good job of splainin' it. It was my goal to not be lapped by a 50Ker. If they lapped me, then they were going more than twice my pace. (Ok, I am really slow.)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Because the 50Kers had this longer 5K-ish loop to do, I got ahead of a lot of them. I started getting passed by a LOT of runners, and they were actually not all that much faster than what I was able to do. It took me a while to figure out who these people were. Once I did, I felt relieved and started tucking in behind them and matching their pace. I reeled off a few faster miles in the latter part of my loop. Eventually, I did get passed by the 50K leaders though. It was easy to tell who they were because they about blew me over when they zoomed by.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I went through quite a few Salt Sticks (my electrolyte capsule of choice.) I never ran out of water and made myself drink warm water the whole day. I stayed well hydrated and peed 2-3 times.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This sign struck me funny. Only now while writing this race report did I realize that this must have been a horse camp.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">The best part of the race was seeing Dave Renfro out at one of the aid stations. He just came out to cheer the runners on. I was so glad to chat with him even though it was a quick exchange. Dave has battled cancer for a few years and has such a brave outlook on his situation. The picture below is a screen capture from his Facebook page.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Five days later, cancer took him from us. I was so sad and deeply grieved our loss, and his family's loss. </b></span></blockquote>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">My friend Kathy Bratton said it better than me:</b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Rest In Peace Dave Renfro!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> I have never seen anyone go through a sickness with such grace and dignity as you did! </span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I will truly miss your macabre sense of humor and your warrior spirit!!!"</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I finished 294th out of 304 25kers. Hey--it's a top 300. I would bet money that those behind me were 50Kers who stopped after their first (longer) loop.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>So what in this race is an improvement? I had to scrape to find anything. I held up good in the heat, drank and peed, I found a wee bit of speed late in the race--just a smidgen. I'm just gonna call it a decent LSD run. Plus, the shirt was nice.</b></span>....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-20599419953976222232018-05-23T21:25:00.000-07:002018-08-06T21:25:49.385-07:00Spring Fling 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I ran the Sizzlin Sasquatch Spring Fling this year for the second time. This time around, I opted for the 6-hour event--well for a lot of reasons. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. I was not really trained/conditioned enough to go 24 hours like last year.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. My knee while it has let me run, it has started giving me a little more trouble.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. I had the chance to see my grandson play in a baseball tournament at 2:00 a mere 15 miles away from the race.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>That's 3 decent reasons. There are others--like I have a toenail that is sore. Maybe some more if I can think of some.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> IIt's always good to see friends--some of which I see a lot, like Mark and Brandon.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> And some like Lisa and Eric--two of my favorite people EVER. They had just got back from the west--every state west of Oklahoma (except Hawaii.) They converted a fabulous Mercedes cargo van into a roving Earth Station. It was quite possibly the nicest conversion I have seen.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> I drove down in the wee hours of the morning and quietly drove my Prius to the edge of the camping area and slept for a couple of hours, I set my alarm for 5:45 uz I thought the race started at 6:00. But shucky damn, it started at 7:00 and another hour of sleep would have been SO AWESOME.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>RJ had a captive audience and went over the few rules of the race. Were there actually any rules? Go counter-clockwise. Make sure your lap gets counted. No one got lost. Only one person missed getting a lap accounted for and that was fixed.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I was in no hurry. I actually ran the first lap in sandals, which might not have been the best idea, but did no harm.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Part of the 3.6 mile loops are single track, some are wider mowed swatches along the edge of open grassland, and you cross a gravel road once. The trail is a good mix of a lot of things. Never any steep hills, but some longish gradual ones and nice gentle downhills. It's a great course for running. But I shuffled.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>This was about as close as I got to getting my feet wet. I just kept going and going. I'd do a slow lap, then a faster lap, then I'd walk a lap at a brisk pace, then run one, then walk a slow one. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I did manage to pick up a tick or three. Fortunately, I did not get any chiggers.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The one manned aid station was actually womanned. There were the basic snacks, and oddly enough, they'd have something new on every loop. I ran for 6 hours and gained 6 pounds. I finished with 5 laps, good enough for last or next to last. I then left to see my baseball game.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>After the baseball game, I came back and hung out well into the night. Did a moderate amount of drinking--just to the point to whee I turn into a comedian. Alicia and Cat were nice enough to humor me by laughing at my jokes. They're such good friends. Realistically, I probably was being stupid.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I always try to find something from the race to hang my hat on--a good overall pace, a speed-up in pace for the last part of the race. Nada. I guess I learned that it's a good idea to pull over and sleep when you're too sleepy to drive straight home. Maybe the best thing was meeting some new friends. Cat Carr--you are one of US.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">For the third consecutive year, I ran the Cavanal Killer in Poteau, OK. This paved race is an 8K(ish) trek up Cavana Mountain which is affectionately called the World's Highest Hill. Wikipedia explains it best:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cavanal Hill viewed from the southeast side</span></b></div>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="padding: 0.2em 0.4em 0.2em 0em; text-align: left; vertical-align: text-bottom; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Topographic prominence"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Prominence</span></a></th><td style="padding: 0.2em 0em; vertical-align: text-top;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,775 ft (541 m)</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cavanal Hill (officially Cavanal Mountain), located near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poteau,_Oklahoma" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Poteau, Oklahoma">Poteau, Oklahoma</a>, is billed by a local chamber of commerce as the, "tallest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hill">hill</a> in the world", because the elevation of its summit is 1,999 feet (609 m).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavanal_Hill#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup> The actual summit elevation is 2,385 feet (727 m) above sea level;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gnis_2-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavanal_Hill#cite_note-gnis-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> the difference in elevation between the summit and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poteau_River" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Poteau River">Poteau River</a> 3 miles (5 km) to the north is 1,960 feet (600 m).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavanal_Hill#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup></span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The billing is based on the delineation between a hill and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mountain">mountain</a>, that being if the geographical feature were 2,000 feet or higher than its base, then it would be classified as a mountain instead of a hill. However, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Geographic Names Information System">Geographic Names Information System</a> listing do contain several summits with "hill" in their names which are higher than 2,000 feet.</span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Poteau Chamber of Commerce puts on this event, and from the number of sponsors listed on the website and on the back of the shirt, it must be a good fund raiser. 58 sponsors?!?!? WOW!! Pumpkin Holler needs that kind of sponsorship.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Two years ago, I was a couple of minutes past 9:00 arriving, and had to beg/reason/nag to get my packet. As race time approaches, they pack the crap up and get out of Dodge. Last year, a few friends came early and ran op and back down before the race. The faster ones in our gang got back barely in time to get their numbers and shirts. I was slower and did not get mine. No provisions, no apologies. This year I was early enough and got my packet. But true to form, seven (7) minutes before the actual race started, the remaining packets were boxed up and put away. Anyone running late would have been out of luck. A few extra minutes would be courteous--just saying. Other than that, all the volunteers were awesome--friendly, great crowd support, and 4-5 aid stations PER MILE!!!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">No I did not have a drone. But someone did. I borrowed a couple of screen shots from last years video. This year, we had nearly identical conditions. Cloudy and quite comfortable for the first hour or two.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I saw Russell Bennet and Arnold Begay before the race. I saw Arnold trotting back to his car just before the race started to get the chip for his shoe from his packet. No one told anyone about it, but us stupid runners are supposed to know that. I had noticed someone else with the yellow loop tab on his shoe, and had to go back to get mine. That, with a lengthy wait at the porta-pot (I just can't pee in a crowd) so I was starting out a little late. That's nothing new to me at all, and Arnold and I ran together for about three miles up the hill.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The first mile is flat for a while and then starts to ascend. After that, it's steep. I can shuffle the incline, but I can also walk it just as fast.For me, it's not really a race, but for most it is never a run. I'd say well over half of the entrants never run a step. The race busses the finishers back down to elementary school where packet pickup was staged. Most of the runners skip the bus ride and run back down. It's FUN. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Arnold pulled ahead and finished 14 minutes ahead of me. But he ran back and paced me in the last quarter mile or so. I picked up my pace in the last 200 yards, and managed to pass 4-5 runners.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of hot dogs, they had sandwich quarters. They were good. Fresh. But I was all set for a hotdog with a gross amount of mustard. Am I being whiney? I'll shut up.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Arnold and I went for a little reconnaissance run on some dirt roads that stretched across the ridge of the hill. There's lots of shortish gravel roads going left and right off on a mile long road that runs east and west. Picture fish bones. It was nothing earth shattering. Nothing amazing to see. No waterfalls. No caves, although I hear there ARE caves somewhere. There was one overlook, but it was less impressive than the one near the finish line. Basically we got in 4 miles on some boring roads, and picked up a few ticks.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Since we hit the finish line aid station again, we ate again. And refilled bottles/bladders. The run back down was glorious, but I was not able to hit it as hard as I did last year. Of course, I did do a 50-miler the week before. The sun had came out, and it was getting into the mid 80s. Just like it should in May.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The shirt was good. It's a cotton blend shirt in a good color. The artwork was good. I have got a few raised eyebrows wearing it since the first thing they see on the front and back is </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">KILLER</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Since I am officially training now, I always try to find some aspect of my race that shows improvement. My finish time for the ascent was 1:31:51. I started 8:14 late. So my actual race time was 1:23:37. That would have made me the 91st finisher out of 206. I would have been the 53rd male finisher. I would have been 3rd in my age group. This time was a couple of minutes faster than last years time, although I had ran an up and down last year before the race. My average pace on the ascent was 16:44 while climbing over well over 2000 feet.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>On this same day, there was a race in Arkansas that I'd love to run sometime. The Mount Magazine Trail Run--around 18 miles and much more elevation gain than Cavanal. Probably gonna do that one next year.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I decided to run the Heartland 50-miler this year as part of my training for the upcoming 100s I have on my plate. It's a race across the Kansas prairie, more specifically in the Flint Hills. My long-time friend Chrissy Whitten, by my request, is my running coach, and pacer for my goal race--the Tunnel Hill 100. Chrissy is a great motivator,, and has the gift of gab which for me is a requirement for good pacing. She has transformed herself into a running machine in the past few years and is faster than me in most if not all aspects of ultra running. Still, she is one who dedicates herself to encouraging when she is in that mode. Her help today was invaluable.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>With a 6:00 am start, it was dark for the pre-race briefing, but was not so bad that we needed headlamps for the first few miles of the race--but a few runners still brought them. Chrissy is all about selfies and lots of pictures. I take quite a few pictures during a race as well, but I was able to tone my photo-op-stops down and focus more on keeping my feet moving. Most of the pictures in this post are hers.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The prairie is big. It seems to go on forever. So big is the land and so far the horizon, that the sun has to expand itself to illuminate everything. Seriously, this is not a photo-shopped picture. (Would I do something like that???)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mike Rives and I chugged along toward the horizon, and never get there. This is one of the things that has messed with me mentally. Because at times you can see clearly for 8-10 miles with nothing but prairie, it seems like you are running but getting nowhere. In the Heartland 100, miles 28 through 43 finds you in a place with such wide open space that it seems like you never move. In this section, there are no fences along the roads, to trees, no telephone poles--only a cattle guard every 2-3 miles. It's even worse at night.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The wind was at our back--a northwesterly breeze. I turned around and let the wind cool my sweaty body down. The wind always blows here. Two years ago, it was sustained 40+ mph, and running into the wind was like climbing a steep incline, even when you were actually going downhill. A few people returning from the 50K turnaround commented that the wind was brutal, but I have seen worse. If it kept us even slightly cooled when it got into the 80s. It did actually reach 87 on our return trip.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Even then, we were well within a 12-hour finish until mile 17 when things started slowing down a little. What causes a pace to decline? Well for me, socializing at aid stations (I tried to get in and out quickly), taking pictures (I kept that to a minimum), equipment malfunctions (more on that later), blisters or chafing (I never have issues with these by using the magic concoctions my DW makes), hills, and fatigue. It's fair to say that fatigue may have begun to be a factor here due in part to the hills. Every now and then someone would catch up and pass us. Joe Galloway caught us just before we reached the turnaround at Teeterville Road. We visited with Joe for a while, and Chrissy ran ahead to the aid station where her drop bag was to change shoes. </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chrissy had a plan on the way back. Intervals. We would run from telephone pole to telephone pole, or to the next corner, fence post, road kill, muddy spot in the road. And by run, she meant more than the zombie shuffle. Shuffling was ok, but it had to be faster. Up until mile 26, we had been mostly in a 17-18 m/m funk. After mile 26, we reeled off 8 miles in the 14-16 minute range. She is a motivator, to say the least. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The good pace thing came to a halt around mile-35. </b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">We had a one-mile downhill that we ran with a decent effort, but we descended into a creek bottom where it was actually wooded, but the breeze was gone. After that, we had a half-mile uphill grind right out in the sun with no wind. Then a one-mile gradual downhill again with no wind. I was overheating badly. I was out of water, and when I reached the aid station, I needed to sit down in the shade and regroup. Lynna had driven back out following her 50K to get her drop bag, and I was so tempted to quit. AT the aid station, I sat down under the tent and drank some ginger ale and a whole bottle of water over ice. They filled my pack and stuffed it with ice. Chrissy was ready to go, sensing the time was ticking away. </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>When things go bad in an ultra, they almost always get better. I know that. It's why I should never quit. And get better, they did. We did our intervals, mostly running down the hills, and running the first part of the uphills, and the last little push at the top. We distanced ourselves from a couple of runners behind us and were catching up with a couple of others.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Clint is a beer connoisseur. He drinks all kinds of beer--you name it--as long as it's PBR. He drinks them chilled, frozen, lukewarm, and even ones that have been rattling around in the floorboard of the back seat during the summer. He is equally skilled chugging PBRs with his left AND right hand. And talk about being a fashion trendsetter--notice how his beer can matches his hat!!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">With a 7:09 sharp start, we took off into the thicket. Kathy was gonna run with me and I called her right at 7:00 to see if she was on her way, and she had overslept. Kathy is someone who can wake up and be ready to run in minutes, and 40 minutes later, she was up, dressed, and had driven the 17 miles to where we were. I ran a little on the course with the starters, and then came back to meet her.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So, using my keen navigational expertise, I found a way to correct our dilemma--CHEATING. Climbing up this slot passage put us atop a bluff, and we could access the trail that put us back on course. We also managed to lop off a mile and a half of our journey. We did get to enjoy some glorious trailz, some good running, some mud, some trailz that were actually a creek, and some more mud.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Looking at the map, which looks like a running turkey, we bypassed the back leg and one of the back tail feathers. When we finally hit the Powerline, we traversed and lopped off the front tail feather and the head.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Looking back to the west after having climbed over 200 feet in less than .2 of a mile, I felt energized and considered running back and doing it all over again. Yeah right!!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Instead, we did a selfie where we look like giants and went on to the finish. Kathy and I had 8.3 miles and 1100 feet of elevation gain. Congrats to all who started and finished. You are better people than me.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Jwalk had arranged the collection of funds and had bought this Big Agnes C Bar tent. A lot of us signed the tent so he won't completely forget all his friends who love him and are sad that he's gone.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So next week--he is leaving out on Monday--Clint will be living his dream in Aridzona. (I miss you already, my brother.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">In reminiscing about my early start as a runner wannabe, I decided to go back and run the route that made me decide to give it all up after I had barely started. I grew up in Turley, or at least on the outskirts of the old rural town that was eventually annexed by Tulsa. I headed up there a little later than I had planned, and it was certainly going to be dark before I finished my run. I had bought two headlamps just in case the batteries were low in one, but the more I thought about running up and over Turley Hill after dark on the narrow winding road with no shoulder, I decided to just check out my old stomping grounds, and then run later a little closer to home.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Driving around through Turley and seeing what was still there and what had changed was really strange and unique experience. I felt a though I was driving through a deep fog—so dense you could just feel the air rushing by you although the windows in the car were up. The hair was sticking up on my arms, my face tingled, I had hot flashes and then chills. I drove the house I grew up in, and houses of old friends and by places that I’ve been before many times as a kid and I could feel an almost magnetic pull from those places—like a vacuum. I heard the horn of a distant train--not an uncommon thing at all back in the day--but that railroad track has been replaced by a pedestrian trail over ten years ago. I was tossed back into a time capsule, seemingly transported back to 1976 or so. I recognized every bump in the roads, even though most of the roads have been repaved. Some of the houses of old friends that dilapidated or not even there. Between the remains of a line of abandoned and decaying dwellings, I’d see new replacement houses that oddly stuck out like an avocado in an egg carton. Almost instinctively, I intended to stop at Smith's Grocery to buy a Dr. Pepper from the machine. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Except-- Smith's Grocery is gone--been gone for 30 years or so. And I don't drink Dr. Pepper anymore. My old house and my grandparents’ house next door were hardly visible from the road through all the overgrown and unruly trees. The old barn between the houses that my grandfather built 75 years ago laid on the ground in ruins. My grandfather and grandmother would have been 100 and 99 years old this year.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I thought about all the school friends I used to have and how I have almost no contact with any of them. Most of my schoolmates are old. Yes, they are my age but they seem so much older. I don’t mean that in an insulting way—maybe it sounds like I do. It’s just that I still feel like a guy in his early 20s. Tell me its because I’ve never matured, and I won’t disagree with you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I drove slowly south out of Turley. My mind, so cloudy feeling like I was in the 1960s or 70s, began to clear as I drove south on Lewis Avenue. At the T-intersection of 46st Street North and Lewis were three Quik Trips. One that was replaced in the early 80s by a new slightly larger one across the street. Then that one was closed and a new one built across the street by one that now is outdated as well. I have no memories of visiting the newer two, but tonight, the newest one had coffee and I needed it. Coffee, like it usually does every morning, pulled me out of the fog that I was in.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I stopped several times on the way home to speak my thoughts and feelings into the notes app on my phone. There’s no way I could have put this recounting up my trip without doing that. Strangely enough, my mind feels crisp and clear right now. Nostalgia really played with my mind--I’m not sure what to think about that. I don’t necessarily feel the need to to go back again, although I’d like to run the Turley Hill route again. I’m not sure how unpleasant the run would have been at night on the narrow unlit road with surreal flashbacks. I don’t know that I could’ve handled that too well.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I suppose it is fair to say that there are different types of do-overs. If one makes a stupid mistake, and their spouse, employer, parent, friend, sibling decides to show grace and give that person second chance, a wrong can essentially be corrected thus changing the following chain of events, relationships, and well-being. However, a do-over that requires going back in time to handle a situation differently, saying something instead of being quiet, shutting your pie hole instead of spewing off in a fit of anger, giving up when you should have been tough, stealing when you should have been buying, taking time for others when you were only thinking of yourself, betting on the Mets when you lost a whole paycheck because the Red Sox choked. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">If do-overs that involve time travel ever come into existence, I kind think the Star Trek Prime Directive should come into play. One should not be able to do something that greatly alters history. Some joker would be picking every lottery pick, and then would buy out Microsoft, Apple, and the coffee cartel and take over the world. An example of that is Back To The Future 2 when Biff snagged Marty’s sports record book and made a bazillion dollars from sports bets. The whole town of Hill Valley was taken over by the mob. Also, making different relationship changes would result in children not being born, and there would be no end to how the changes in people’s lives generations down the line. Even changing that one time that you were a real jerk to your spouse—undone—could have multiple changes (some good, maybe some bad) down the line as well. A do-over early in life could correct a long series of bad decisions. That same change in the course of events could introduce a new strain of bad luck as well.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I was a high school writer—well while in high school, I wrote. Looking back, it was 90% sick awful crap, but the other 10% showed promise. I was objective enough back then to know what was good, and what was not, although I would probably have rated it 70% crap. It was mostly non-rhyming verse, and short essays and ramblings. I was toying with an idea for a book that centered around an Italian family meshing with an all-American kid (me.) I had a lot of this recorded in my head but never followed through with it. But, after I got married, the writing stopped. Wife #1 was a critic, and I did not handle criticism well. I became more private with what I wrote, and that led to more dissent, so I gave it up. I wish I had stayed with it and I may have grown as a writer and would have certainly read more. On the other hand, I had two great sons, and they have grown up to be fine young men and between the two, I have 4 awesome grandkids.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-26123002655196113712018-04-14T21:37:00.003-07:002018-04-29T11:27:50.987-07:00Scenes from a one-mile hike.<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Because the leaves were not as thick due to our winter that just will not stop, I saw an old dilapidated bard than merited some investigation.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <span style="color: white;">This IS Oklahoma. The crowd I call my own would never throw a gum wrapper or Gu tab down, but too many Okies are just trashy.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> This mighta been a decent boat in it's day. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I got nothing here. Why was the teddy wrapped and tied in a trash bag? All I could see was the nose and one eye, so I took a stick and pulled the trash bag back for a better look.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This year--for the first time--I ran the Snake Run. I have been the RD for 10 years, and now Bryan formerly known as Mitch Drummond (now referred to as BfkaM) took over the RD duties for me. So now on Snake Run day, I was FREE!! But rather than trying to bust out a marathon, I took it easy. Some people are pretty sure that's all I can do since it's all I usually do. I may up my efforts in the coming months. I'm a work in progress--but that's not what this post is about.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">BfkaM did a great job in rounding up volunteers for the race. We are lucky to have so many friends eager to spend a weekend setting things up, serving drinks and snacks, helping with course marking and unmarking, and packing things up after the race. Two Al(ie)cias--one with an i and one with an e--worked the start/finish aid station, registration, and packet pickup. Then also with lap counting.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The highly coveted Snake Trophies are what keeps the fast trail runners coming back. It takes 100% effort for the whole duration (3-hours or 6-hours) to finish in the top three. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Clint Green had marked the course this year. The course is a long out and back that actually has a one mile loop. When you reach the complete revolution of the loop, you hit an aid station, and turn around and run the course in reverse.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ok--aid stations. There's one at the start/finish. A little less than a mile, you hit another aid station. Continue on and you hit the one at the turn-around which is merely the other side of the last one you passed. Then--a BANDIT aid station popped up. It was fully stocked with beers and mixed drinks and shots. And shady characters.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I ran the first lap with Lyda, who just the day before ran her first ever 50K at Land Run. We chatted it up and critiqued the race the day before. Lyda finished with two laps, I believe.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ample goodies at the start/finish.In the past three event I have been involved with either running or RD-ing, it seems like less and less food stuff is being consumed. I think that partly because so many trail runners wear hydration packs and stuff a few of their favorite gels and snacks and end up using less aid station food. Just a theory.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">But hey--how can you pass up a Gatorade from these smiling faces? Thanks, K2, Leah-haha, and Cheryl.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">After finishing lap one, and making sure my lap was counted, I DROVE home (only a half mile to my house) and picked up Roxie so she could do a lap. She is all about the trailz, but has not been around that many runners. She wanted to greet them all at first but quickly figured it out that they were not gonna stop and pet her. Then, she decided it would be fun to keep up with the fast runners, and away she went with me in tow. My strides were probably 7-8 feet long, and I kept right up with a couple of speedsters for quite a while. Then, I kicked a little stump and was on the ground in a split second. I instinctively rolled out of it end over end and finally slid into home plate. SAFE!! Only a skinned knee to show for it, and the dust clogged the blood up nicely.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Clint Green and Justin Walker jog along together at basically a zombie speed. Justin would have been a real threat to win this race, but he was tapering for his big run--the Trans Okie--511 miles across the state from New Mexico to Arkansas. A real Forrest Gump-like endeavor.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So on my second lap and second passing of the Bandit aid station, I had a couple of Fireball shots, and some apple pie moonshine. like a swig or two on a trail run. Never enough to get loopy, but a long smooth nip is better than a Gu--any day!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I took Roxie home and brought Zeke back for the third lap. Now Zeke loves being out on the trailz, but he mainly likes to just sniff things. Any king of poop--and we're talking long analytical sniffs. And tree or plant that sometime in the history of the world might have been peed on by any creature. Zeke has a good trot. His actual runs are spirited but short. I knew that a 3.75 mile loop was about two more than he bargained for, but we just walked. So many people commented on how big he was. He is actually a little smaller in shoulder height than the average Lab. Some people commented on his healthy appetite. Others complemented my=e on not forgetting any of his meals. And there were a couple of "OH MY GOD YOU DOG IS SO FAT!!" One friend cracked me up saying he saw me running with a dog and then with a dog who apparently had eaten the other dog. A little FYI--we do have him on a reduced diet. We have stopped with the table scrap snacks. Male labs just like to eat. We have some good eating habits that we are working on. As of this writing, Zeke has slimmed down a little. He's my boy, and I love him.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I didn't get pics of the 3-Hour winners, and swiped most of the pictures in this post. Thanks to Clint Green and JC Runner for most of these. The 6-Hour men's top three were a couple of dudes from Nebraska who put on the <a href="http://www.irunwithgoats.org/mdizzy-goat.html"><span style="color: magenta;">Dizzy Goat</span></a>--a 3-Hour, 6-Hour, and 12-Hour in Omaha. I did this race the first two years and highly recommend it. Jeff Greg on the left was first. Mathew Randle in the middle was 2nd. Kenney Alexander from Mounds, OK was 3rd.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The top three female Snake Runners are also the top three in the Oklahoma Dirt Trail Series. Kait Bykowicz on the left was 1st. Susan Roets on the right was 2nd. Tiffany Fiedler in the middle was 3rd, and was/is so terrified of the trophy that she could not hold it or even look at it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I was impressed with BfkaM and crew in coming up with a great beer sponsor. The name is truth in advertising. It was smooth and drinkable--much better than Bud Light.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Hats off to a man from Bugtussle, OK who at 75 years of age, ran 16.5 miles in the 6-Hour event.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">To BfkaM--great job running the show. It was a seamless transition.</span></b>....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-13269308708323680302018-03-25T22:10:00.001-07:002018-03-25T22:21:32.961-07:00Land Run 50K 2018<span style="font-size: large;">I have toed the line and ran all three LandRun 50Ks, and this year it was DRY!!! The bikers just blazed by on roads that are actually BETTER than most streets in Tulsa. GONE was the endless miles of shoe sucking mud, the clay pancakes on the feet, and the 50 lbs of gunk on all the poor bikers spokes and gears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year Johnna, Lynna and I were chauffeured by BfkaM (Bryan formerly known as Mitch) over to Stillwater and back to do this race. Carpooling is the best. Especially with friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lyda met us at the starting line all geared up and decked out for her first 50K. I believe she picked an easy one for her debut, although some people would disagree since there are (heaven forbid) HILLS. But none are ridiculously steep, and only a few are long. I am sure that the front runners run every step of them. And I think I could do the same, although I have yet to prove that theory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Running her 2nd 50K was none other that Tiffany Fielder--the current leader of the Oklahoma Dirt Trail Series (which I have yet to update since I am still waiting for official results from AOK a few weeks back.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a reported 1200 bikers were sent off at 8:00 am, us runners took off at 8:10. I had my Salomon S-LAB 15 full of snacks, gels, a filled bladder, and other necessities one might need in a long run with minimal aid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The course was the same as last year, and I pretty much knew every turn and what to expect. The first aid station was right at 10.5 miles, the second was 20.5 miles. The crew at aid station one also set up at mile 22.5. This came in handy for Lyda, and I'll elaborate later on that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This motley crew stayed together for about the first half of the race. Johnna and I have a light hearted grudge match in races. Sometimes I whup her butt. Sometimes, however, she makes me eat her dust. Occasionally we act like civilized runners and run together. Shortly after leaving this aid station, either I slowed down or she sped up. Twice I pushed the pace and caught her, but after the second run-down, she took off and put a sizable distance between us. When I could no longer see her in the distance, the "reel it in" affect was gone. I'd accuse her of cutting the course, but there is no way possible to do that. In fact, she did miss a turn and added a little over a mile to her race and still beat me by over an hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had received an email about drop bags for the race. I rarely use one, and with my stuffed pack and aid stations with the basics every 10 miles, I was good. Lyda was doing her first ultra, and being vegan, she was concerned that there would not be anything she could eat at the stops. She paid the $20 to have a drop bag delivered, and it was unclear to her where it would be. Someone told her it was halfway on the course. At mile 15-16--no drop bag. She made a phone call to someone with the race and was told it would be at the next aid station, but the aid station folks knew nothing about it. Then someone told her it was only for the 100 mile bikers. Funny, they had no problem taking her $20 for transport. She did get a small bag of pretzels and some fruit at the second aid station, and probably had more stuff she could eat at the impromptu station two miles later. Despite this issue, Lyda kept up a good pace and finished around 45 minutes ahead of me. Not sure if they ever found her drop bag or refunded her $20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year the mud through this stretch was so bad, Johnna stepped in a hole and sunk up to her chin! After a drought year, the roads were dry and dusty, but this spot STILL had mud a year later. With a little tiptoeing, bush-whacking, and scrambling, we were able to get around it with our pretty trail shoes still dusty. It was also around here that Lynna found her rocket fuel and left BfkaM and I behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I said it last year, and I'll probably kick the idea around some more. I think this would make a good 100 mile ultra. They make a provision for anyone wanting to do a run/bike double to run Friday and bike Saturday. What if maybe me and a friend show up and just run the 100 mile bike course self sufficient. Leaving out Friday at 6:00 am should get us to the finish line by noon or so Saturday. Hmmm....</span></div>
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....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-89650795048417448672018-03-16T21:59:00.000-07:002018-03-25T14:30:22.120-07:00Greetings from the 1970s<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This was the longest my hair ever was. I had died it because I wanted to look like Jackson Browne--I was a huge fan. Shortly after that I got a perm because I wanted to be Roger Daltrey from the Who. The perm flopped, so I got the perm redone two days later. Then a lot of my hair broke off, or fell out. My hair was never the thick mop that it once was. (Can I get a do-over?)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I also found THIS--an old journal that I used to keep.In my move tears ago from Haskell to Tulsa I lost several spiral notebooks from a journal I started in 1975 my junior year in high school. This one I started sometime after I graduated. I had a brief start as a runner, although then, it was jogger.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This journal entry mentions my first run--a grand total of two miles. I would have been 19 here. I'll post another "jogging" entry or two in a future post.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We had another trail outing Sunday--this time back at the Spavinaw WMA. I have run here several times, and each time I am intrigued at how many miles one could run if he had all day to do it. We met at RunnersWorld at 7:30 and picked up Lynna on the way through Inola. Our crew this time--Lynna and I, Kathy, Russell, and Caroll.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">My intent was to try some different trailz than what we've been on before, but I could not resist starting the same way I always go. Not 1/4 of a mile into the first loop, we took a side-spur that turned out to be a dead end--but as is normal for trail runners, it was gladly accepted as bonus miles. At least now I know where that trail went. Very soon after that, we began what was a 213' ascent in .3 of a mile--basically a double Lipbuster. There had been a recent control-burn, and about half of our run we saw charred leaves and underbrush, and old deadwood smoldering. It was oddly beautiful.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Lynna and I found our happy pace as the the others were one notch faster than we were. But Russ, Caroll, and Kathy waited for us at each intersection. At the top of one such intersection there was a hollow but still standing tree with smoke drifting out of an open knothole near the top. We were just certain we had found the Keebler Elves tree, and cookies were-a-bakin'.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Now I know my way around at Spavinaw fairly well, and to me it looked like we needed to go right. But there was a sign (recently placed?) that said the right turn led to a private group camp which was down a long dead end road. So, we went left.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The road we took was a long glorious descent and we thundered down it. I was looking for the road to round a hill past a deep ravine to the right where I had previously spotted what looked like caves. But instead, our sweet downhill spilled out into a valley on what I was pretty sure was Ground Hog Hollow Road. It became clear to me that we should have went right at the Keebler Elf intersection.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Our road fizzled to almost nothing resembling a route, but we followed what looked like a rarely used 4-wheeler trail. It eventually turned back into a maintained gravel road, and to a T-intersection where we had the choice of going west and tackling another huge loop, or go right and run into the paved highway where we could pop right back into the woods on another lesser-used road. Since my stomach was growling, I voted for the shorter route back. It was inching past lunchtime.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, I ran the last A-OK Trail Run. Due to an odd request by a neighbor, there will be no race here in the coming years. (I hope minds will be changed...)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> A formidable crew of Bryan Formerly Known As Mitch (BfkaM), Kathy, and JFrank left out from RunnersWorld at 4:30-ish and made it there in time for me to take the early start, and in a spineless state of mind, I opted to take the regular start which I knew basically assured me of missing the 4 hour cutoff, where I'd settle for 25K. My thoughts--I didn't want to have everyone waiting for me, I don't need a run where I feel like I failed to meet my objective (I know that sounds wishy-washy), and I do have a 50K coming up in two weeks that I WILL finish since there is no place to drop (unless you got an Uber pick-up on a rural dirt road that could be impassable due to mud.) Oh heck--AOK is an awesome 25K, and now I could take pictures and yak it up at the aid stations--my specialty.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">There was a good contingent of Tulsa runners and Dirt Series types so all day I saw friendly faces out on the trailz.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">There was a brief ceremony before the race recognizing Mary Ann for her kindness and racing accomplishments. I ran the Dallas White Rock Marathon in 2007, and on a bitterly cold day at mile 4 had her pass me and left me to wallow in my own slow pace. I did pass her a little later in the race but she finished well ahead of many runners finishing right around six hours.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A group of runners crowded in for a pre-race picture, and I ducked out of the picture to snap one of my own. We were sent off at 8:00, and I was fiddling with my watch and just walked the first 50 yards and let the pack get ahead.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The race course crosses the dam before tucking into the woods for about a mile of winding twisting single track with pine needles and lichen-covered boulders.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The trail found it's way back to the other side of the pond no more than 20 yards from the starting line, and then headed up a gradual climb. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The first aid station was at a T-intersection where we went left for 3/4-mile. This was a great downhill, and I picked up the pace and clumsily passed a few runners. It was fun. might have been frightening for those who dived out of the way. Nerding out on my Movescount app shows I hit a 7:40 pace for a brief time. I managed to catch up with Lynna and BfkaM. My shuffle equals their power-walk, and we played cat and mouse for about a mile and then I stopped to pee and never caught back up.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">There are lots of out-and-backs on the course. In fact, the whole course is a big out and back, This lets you see all the runners--those who are lighting the place up, and those who are within passing distance if you run a little more. Kathy was doing the 50K and doing so at a quicker pace than I was. Each time I saw her, she had gained some ground. Her passing me from behind (lapping me) meant she'd finish twice my distance in far less time. She did pull off that feat, but several of the 50K runners did.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The second aid station was a busy place. Runners hit this stop three times per lap. Dora had the table well stocked. Homemade cookies, PBJs, Reeces Cups, mini-Snickers, huge pretzels, and a ton of other stuff. I just grazed here each time through. Russell and Arnold were miles ahead of me and were having a good race. They both probably PR'd.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Twice we had to go through a gate. One had to be opened and then shut, and the other was easy to slip through with minimal limbo skills. I knew the way the course went, and ducked through and headed to the right. I had a long gradual downhill that just went on forever. I stretched out my stride and focused on staying smooth and relaxed. Running just felt good, and I just KNEW I could catch BfkaM and Lynna. Upon rounding each curve in the road, I was just amazed that they were nowhere in sight. Finally, after running more than a mile, I rounded a corner and saw the driveway into the area where the race STARTS!?!?! My immediate thoughts were that I had passed the turnaround--but where were the other runners I should have seen. THEN, it hit me--I had turned the wrong way at the gate.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I wasn't mad even though I took a grouchy-looking selfy. I just made a mistake. The course went the same way last year. We drove past the turnaround on the way in.I just made a wrong turn and added 2.8 miles to my run. Truth is, although I do have a wee bit of a competitive nature, I do not mind being last in a race, and I often am. I socialize too much and stop to take too many pictures. I'm just me. That's what I do. I added 2.8 miles and 207' of elevation gain to my race. Some people accused me of doing this on purpose. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">No one filed a missing person report, but a few friends wondered what the heck happened to me.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Heading out on the out and back going the CORRECT way from the gate, I was passed by JFrank, who lapped me en route to his 50K win. He finished hours ahead of 2nd place. (I may be exaggerating about the margin of victory, but in the words of Uncle Donald, "It was HUGE.") 4:12 was his time. I'm not sure if that was a course record, but it could be.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I had a bowl of delicious chili and a couple of Miller Highlifes and hung around to wait for Kathy. Kathy finished her 50K in 7:34--a 2:30 first half and a 2:34 second half for a virtually even split.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">This time, I was running with my friend Susan, who was running her first marathon. She was nervous about getting it done, having missed her last couple of long runs.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsxL8TlvIMPa8SJMaX8LV5sNF1Fvyf1sThi7Xe-6PHrGBstajyD1llzaP0-wfXZo43vY_BEUatZsfMK0AoELirXRMb34M09_5Dpy21F7laPxt2NXh76UwyoPB2BU4e08nsNkG5eJtkbX9s/s1600/PA100134.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526999163675267090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsxL8TlvIMPa8SJMaX8LV5sNF1Fvyf1sThi7Xe-6PHrGBstajyD1llzaP0-wfXZo43vY_BEUatZsfMK0AoELirXRMb34M09_5Dpy21F7laPxt2NXh76UwyoPB2BU4e08nsNkG5eJtkbX9s/s640/PA100134.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>I assured her I could get her to the finish line (and helping her would help me, since I had figured I would be recuperating from the Arkansas Traveller from last weekend. Of course, my 100 miler stopped after 17 miles, but that's last week's story. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-cvSHov6JYvBm5SFmi0u-wkj0X6ry4H9EjLKuztzuOXmIv8z_FjamM1Pu-HHcJRrbRlAuSVq2r9hpDYwamCja4YFRL64YOloLKS_IfFnafboTLL3GVJxU5828e8to7JwxxuVbffsRSShw/s1600/Steve+Urkel.jpg" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527004155080581954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-cvSHov6JYvBm5SFmi0u-wkj0X6ry4H9EjLKuztzuOXmIv8z_FjamM1Pu-HHcJRrbRlAuSVq2r9hpDYwamCja4YFRL64YOloLKS_IfFnafboTLL3GVJxU5828e8to7JwxxuVbffsRSShw/s400/Steve+Urkel.jpg" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="275" /></a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">There were lots of inspirational signs along the way, and some with nerdy trivia such as the one above.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">I imagine Bonnie and Clyde traveled many many times on Route 66, as did Elvis, Madonna, Mickey Roarke, and Steve Urkel. _____________________________________________________</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2uqm638sv80caL2k0v1Mpo8KoZv350VCAoo3fOznDFrNjy32HcRJErTxcVKJVGAoWhk77YwvBemhFVP1zSLCwNFC0h4VNGwej1Y97L_N5EQ27TrFG97KhhiuH8MiEF3dRsVrMvNq6aZDQ/s1600/PA100122.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527009344281794306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2uqm638sv80caL2k0v1Mpo8KoZv350VCAoo3fOznDFrNjy32HcRJErTxcVKJVGAoWhk77YwvBemhFVP1zSLCwNFC0h4VNGwej1Y97L_N5EQ27TrFG97KhhiuH8MiEF3dRsVrMvNq6aZDQ/s640/PA100122.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>We played leap frog with Dena and Linda early on in the race.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPRRbgC_W5hTMugivm0gCBy9Lp4y8yfENzqT15Nx_mxQefBWF3tBg_w9J3GWtEVrJfwLY0j72WveOz-vynDyqBjC0hDaAwbJuiCuQvaVuHixRiFQGQP03jbMjnMCpp5zan11Gqnnx6kos/s1600/PA100123.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="478" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527009716668252018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWPRRbgC_W5hTMugivm0gCBy9Lp4y8yfENzqT15Nx_mxQefBWF3tBg_w9J3GWtEVrJfwLY0j72WveOz-vynDyqBjC0hDaAwbJuiCuQvaVuHixRiFQGQP03jbMjnMCpp5zan11Gqnnx6kos/s640/PA100123.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Quapaw, the last Oklahoma town we'd run through. Quapaw will be the first Oklahoma town we run through in the Mother Road 100 next month. I was impressed with all the crowd support along the way. Not huge crowds, but in every little town we ran through, there were folks out sitting in their yards or in lawn chairs on the town sidewalks cheering us on. They seemed genuine too. Of course, I heard we were almost there long before the halfway point.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRlPEEEYH5LR9JBpi7d64yXUxOSkuzBXxM-pD2YkT7ux3NTNT4mLXNdDTpwdf2l3uAQXoLkwU2vbAO7L3lvyIiKEkV2-5tb30uQO7NVWlG6AZIkwRmE3yW5kr-_kLAVV72_zkApW0Qj7y/s1600/PA100132.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527010621598547698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRlPEEEYH5LR9JBpi7d64yXUxOSkuzBXxM-pD2YkT7ux3NTNT4mLXNdDTpwdf2l3uAQXoLkwU2vbAO7L3lvyIiKEkV2-5tb30uQO7NVWlG6AZIkwRmE3yW5kr-_kLAVV72_zkApW0Qj7y/s640/PA100132.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Out of one state, and into another. How cool to just run from state to state.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74CXxmk5sAYpT7j2tv0zAc2TLK2lQK0vC0V8Nl9zmv2It4jaHEqn8rqDGNSJ1TlLrs3-S519Ib9yYd9lyAGpQmpXScM6JKim1XXjyB2nlHzUe2V_j4Bq8NLWTrNOH7sRu0FsAVc-XA4Gc/s1600/PA100137.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527012183729457698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74CXxmk5sAYpT7j2tv0zAc2TLK2lQK0vC0V8Nl9zmv2It4jaHEqn8rqDGNSJ1TlLrs3-S519Ib9yYd9lyAGpQmpXScM6JKim1XXjyB2nlHzUe2V_j4Bq8NLWTrNOH7sRu0FsAVc-XA4Gc/s640/PA100137.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>It was good to see this sign. Susan was doing great--in good spirits. We were moving steadily--not fast, but we employed the RFM concept (Relentless Forward Motion) and I kept a careful eye on our pace. All was well.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">The nice thing about running through these little towns was that the quickie stores were convenient aid stops. I hit one up for Fritos and Advil. Another for Red Bull and a huge cup of ice.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje83_Xu-PqtpXf6SzqQSQ9KWKH3InO7u_3oStJvqpdB4Mrk8FNCmYI_YAfpz9r1YoXtsWYIZzHbnJApJ5zUEaqrljZUE-T-rPEj4NL2dAYW8QnNb3S6dGXALKED-pCsYvQSdrazGZ2AO6L/s1600/PA100135.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="450" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527013049536460114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje83_Xu-PqtpXf6SzqQSQ9KWKH3InO7u_3oStJvqpdB4Mrk8FNCmYI_YAfpz9r1YoXtsWYIZzHbnJApJ5zUEaqrljZUE-T-rPEj4NL2dAYW8QnNb3S6dGXALKED-pCsYvQSdrazGZ2AO6L/s640/PA100135.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>The best call of the day was this stop at McDonald's. Each time I made a pit stop, I had Susan keep moving, and I ran hard to catch her. This worked well, and kept us on pace for our finish.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMlcxp7WIuWR5y2opGtwBcNmd7sn9T3aA5lctOMidVJP5Y_oYrhom2llZM73_eS9oeDQv7i0q-3DyJEDE7NxfrjTllbba72OMT5xUMa96uIuO6RnHlmQy-XnN4mPGiEe2rTMj1RZwiOgHW/s1600/PA100136.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527025624329905330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMlcxp7WIuWR5y2opGtwBcNmd7sn9T3aA5lctOMidVJP5Y_oYrhom2llZM73_eS9oeDQv7i0q-3DyJEDE7NxfrjTllbba72OMT5xUMa96uIuO6RnHlmQy-XnN4mPGiEe2rTMj1RZwiOgHW/s640/PA100136.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Best tree of the day goes to this one in Baxter Springs, Kansas.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxhYZ0uUxTK5FfupWo_YUogrq7SCZ85qgp3IjZ2mqBSeXEkIFOYqPVRvAgc2WZkyltnnXu9XeP1esm2wEX6dgyPESpXFYEO0sYvu4uEVIMIty3mMahETuHve4HYeLjjE9uUQfvzJzxMFN/s1600/PA100138.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527014233850729058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxhYZ0uUxTK5FfupWo_YUogrq7SCZ85qgp3IjZ2mqBSeXEkIFOYqPVRvAgc2WZkyltnnXu9XeP1esm2wEX6dgyPESpXFYEO0sYvu4uEVIMIty3mMahETuHve4HYeLjjE9uUQfvzJzxMFN/s640/PA100138.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Here, we are approaching Galena, Kansas. It was really heating up--I am guessing into the low 80s at this point. We had just endured a mile long hill. It was a little too much to run, and we power-walked it. It seemed like the course was all either flat or uphill. I really don't remember many downhill stretches at all.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7omhaSmM8V5DitWf8l0Pzl0Nn25JGarhoyac_ekxkVfbjXa5M5K_H0mGu6Ks80ALg97ARK2Yv34OuGJhEB38LUA7ZFIRvSCYwZ6oZSRwKAGwx4LZ931XOcDzmNyX9h6aLA8GVvd1pOMN/s1600/PA100143.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527015122949954018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7omhaSmM8V5DitWf8l0Pzl0Nn25JGarhoyac_ekxkVfbjXa5M5K_H0mGu6Ks80ALg97ARK2Yv34OuGJhEB38LUA7ZFIRvSCYwZ6oZSRwKAGwx4LZ931XOcDzmNyX9h6aLA8GVvd1pOMN/s640/PA100143.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>The original Wrecker Tater, from the movie "Cars." I have not seen this animated flick, but maybe I should.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">Susan was waning a little during the next few miles. She stopped to stretch, and I have to say it did her some good. Each time after a minute or two of stretching, she would pick up her pace and we were staying just ahead of the pace we needed to finish in the time limit.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHT5Pgi01JqJHLhdYS6UqAx9Pgp3vdJB9ko5DjrN8TtlkyZ_QJBBFDcFoKeN0dY7GLpaVKpRtoVZHxTOkFyuCM5N1Hyzx7tyPz-dfEGoCMxTKRzwzvwEyLDfW0kzylYzqKPd3N9jgJu3U/s1600/PA100145.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="545" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527015536811345602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtHT5Pgi01JqJHLhdYS6UqAx9Pgp3vdJB9ko5DjrN8TtlkyZ_QJBBFDcFoKeN0dY7GLpaVKpRtoVZHxTOkFyuCM5N1Hyzx7tyPz-dfEGoCMxTKRzwzvwEyLDfW0kzylYzqKPd3N9jgJu3U/s640/PA100145.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>After Galena, we got onto a some of the OLD Highway. It was two-laned, and had not been resurfaced in many many years. (It was, however, in better condition than most of the streets in Tulsa.) This section seemed surreal--I'm not sure why. maybe it was because the road was old, there were no modern signs, no houses to be seen, the vegetation looked old and dry, the sky was a little grayer. I liked it.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQF5HcHXxDI5UZofMM2ytn7x2R2tDwHrdXzpT_CsFuYj7GFYT99FOivBudNf84MR9n8tuHD4zQj1VBqsssKJKKHU1egA3vf3lP0Ks997iW6M59VA9vQJAjODgBKzHLO4q9GvA1bSjzcGH/s1600/PA100144.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527018152634160674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQF5HcHXxDI5UZofMM2ytn7x2R2tDwHrdXzpT_CsFuYj7GFYT99FOivBudNf84MR9n8tuHD4zQj1VBqsssKJKKHU1egA3vf3lP0Ks997iW6M59VA9vQJAjODgBKzHLO4q9GvA1bSjzcGH/s640/PA100144.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a></b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">Somewhere along the stretch of the old road, we passed into Missouri. There was not a "Welcome to Missouri" sign, but soon after getting into a more populated area, I saw this road sign.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRE1Dk32vdIjH-_wWFja09NBAHbNn9cGL3SmPXf7oZ1A5ruDtUCt1WCTTay8nTH_dPooGFGCfQuUylfmzUxfyaGWpLpJn5pmXtjIzkcJS134docbA8kfT-UIuTLtlH6zukkOi3JiKjiORB/s1600/PA100149.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527017565708042882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRE1Dk32vdIjH-_wWFja09NBAHbNn9cGL3SmPXf7oZ1A5ruDtUCt1WCTTay8nTH_dPooGFGCfQuUylfmzUxfyaGWpLpJn5pmXtjIzkcJS134docbA8kfT-UIuTLtlH6zukkOi3JiKjiORB/s640/PA100149.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="569" /></a>From here, Susan was fading fast. I knew she wanted badly to finish, but she had really hit the wall. I had given her electrolytes, she had taken several Gu's, ate Fritos, drank a smoothie, had some ice water, Gatorade, and despite being only three miles away, was thinking of tossing in the towel. The continual hills were taking a toll, and any hint of a breeze was gone. It had clouded over a little, but the humidity seemed to soar. Then, she had a dizzy spell, and became a little nauseated. I had some sea salt, and I wish I had given here a dose of it earlier. I had her take a couple of pinches, and at her urging, I ran on to the finish line. I made her PROMISE to NOT STOP, and to NOT TAKE A RIDE to the finish. I ran as fast as I could to make the cut-off. I had my reasons. The cut-off was seven hours. I knew I could make it in by then, and I intended to claim my finishers medal and give it to Susan if they did not count her finish as official and not give her a metal. As soon as I crossed the line and they dechipped my shoe, I ran back out to meet her and run her in. The last half a mile was a gradual downhill, and by the time I made it to the top of the hill and turned westward, I saw her jogging up the hill. WOW! She had came back to life, and dug deep to get her marathon done. As we turned the corner, several of our friends came out to run us in. Celebration was in the air!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilugp1NixzR1xx91HqHQNk6GFIFKNFNz5zyuXaY5r2h29JaO9x1jTU3FXWT8I3VkePlRpvCDB54MViLIj48Bb5Xmqe4C7ldQPR3z_HftdjT06brImaFh7djzP9YXHUh-uCqxCPtrVacUVG/s1600/,k.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527021457475855298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilugp1NixzR1xx91HqHQNk6GFIFKNFNz5zyuXaY5r2h29JaO9x1jTU3FXWT8I3VkePlRpvCDB54MViLIj48Bb5Xmqe4C7ldQPR3z_HftdjT06brImaFh7djzP9YXHUh-uCqxCPtrVacUVG/s640/,k.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>She had finished, and only 3 or 4 minutes over the time limit. The folks at the finish line hung a medal around her neck, and it was a great moment for her and all her friends.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT7NknHZYCOrWJB5c6kcRld1d-KgHb1cQJ9VgtmMfjMrR8BvHJM0qqYyUlrsSaF6KIP6UsQiHWK40vCRdLEeH-Wn1qJOLstXpdbp8EWZoqGry5GqfTTXe7F8N4_K_6bWJKnMqOhj-5BnR/s1600/PA100153.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="629" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527021731762435634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT7NknHZYCOrWJB5c6kcRld1d-KgHb1cQJ9VgtmMfjMrR8BvHJM0qqYyUlrsSaF6KIP6UsQiHWK40vCRdLEeH-Wn1qJOLstXpdbp8EWZoqGry5GqfTTXe7F8N4_K_6bWJKnMqOhj-5BnR/s640/PA100153.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-83E0IF_fTfNSYd5DpejfNj5idG__tOQe4V1kYCT_nJkZSJU-bRTYHDlTFSfsruTe3i8_hiiYchld5CAtrySVvWV5_MKwS36zrw4CQpSZPq2Ev2h9yBaiSM0nRJFSaVeljGzDA3JOecZa/s1600/PA100152.JPG" style="border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527021874379135938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-83E0IF_fTfNSYd5DpejfNj5idG__tOQe4V1kYCT_nJkZSJU-bRTYHDlTFSfsruTe3i8_hiiYchld5CAtrySVvWV5_MKwS36zrw4CQpSZPq2Ev2h9yBaiSM0nRJFSaVeljGzDA3JOecZa/s640/PA100152.JPG" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="480" /></a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">And an ankle report--all went well. I did not tape it or wear my brace. I seem to be on the mend, but I am still reluctant to go out on the trails, but of course that won't last long. Prognosis for the Mother Road 100 looks good.</b></span></div>
....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-31652462190377686102018-02-18T21:00:00.000-08:002018-02-18T21:03:56.553-08:00Meego Bingo<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mike Rives puts this event on at his property near Skiatook. Here's the deal. Each participant is assigned a Meego Bingo card. As always--the free space is blotted. Then the runner gets two more free spaces and they have the choice if blotting any two spots. Smart blotters will choose two numbers that line up with the free space--leaving only two more numbers to Bingo. Easy--right? Wrong. You have to run a lap to earn another blot. These "laps" are 1.85-ish miles long and on nice single track trailz. (LOVE!!!!!) Fortunately, the bingo balls are sifted through for each runner to make sure they get a blot on their card each time they pass through the start/finish table--otherwise this might be a 2-3 day event.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As much as I enjoy describing trailz here and there as Relatively Flat, I cannot use these words to describe this course. I did only 4 laps* this year, and made practically zero-progress in getting a Bingo--I obviously had the Bingo card from Hell. Each spike is a lap, and you climb 170' in the first .7 of a mile. Then you have a little over a mile of much more gradual downhill. Each side looks brutal, but the downside is much milder. Runners can, if they choose, run the course in reverse. I did that once, but the steep decline that you have at the end of the lap was a bit more uncomfortable that I preferred.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">*Justin Walker ran 15 of these laps!!!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mike's evil alter-ego is the real one to blame on this sinister hilly course. Meego is to blame for a lot of crazy ideas in running in this part of the world. <a href="http://okathletes.com/2015/11/11/meego-2/"><span style="color: magenta;">Mike describes Meego in great detail HERE.</span></a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Everyone got a finishers trophy! I forgot to bring mine home:-( </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, by the way--nice vest Rock Star.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Great awards were given to the first bingo, and to the place where every competitive runner hates to be--4th place. (In most races, 2nd and 3rd place walk away with trophies or medals, and 4th goes home empty handed. Well, the tables are turned at this event.) And for those who had unlimited energy, there was an award for multiple bingos. And my favorite--an award for most laps ran without getting a bingo. (I won this one last year--kind of a Biggest Loser award.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">My race went slow. That first mile that sucks until you get it out of the way--well it hung on and sucked all day. I didn't whine. I love hills. I kept a shuffle or a power-walk all the way to the top, and then shuffled carefully the downhills. I just could not get comfortable stretching it out and increasing my leg turnover. And that's ok. I had fun, took a lot of pictures, and hung out with friends.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Here's another incline snuck in on the downhill part. Well played, Meego--well played.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Michelle Bates was the card blotter. I tried to bribe her for an extra spot or two on my card, but she's a tough cookie. She did mention that $100 would guarantee a winning card. And would you believe it--I only had 70 bucks on me.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Leaha showed up to just to hang out and catch up with friends, and I talked her into walking a lap with me. I was about to call it a day anyway, but my 4th lap gave me close to eight miles which sounded a lot better than six.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Did I mention I stopped to take a few pictures? I love old abandoned houses, old bridges, and old barns. Torn-up scary dolls are on my list, too.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Ah the awards. Brandon Plate had the first Bingo. He ran over 15 miles to get it though.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Jfrank took home the Tough Luck award. I could swear there were two of him running out there. He was knocking out over two laps to my one. And if I am right--I got as many Bingos as he did.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">It was a great day for dogs too. Luna and Taylor were playing and it took 8 quick pics to get one good one. I wish I had brought mine. Roxie would have been good for a couple of laps, and Zeke could have done one.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Everyone had fun. No one got hurt. It seems like the Bingos were a little bit harder to come by this year. Thank you, Mike Rives, for having our friends out to play for a day at your place. If this event happens again, I won't miss it.</span></b>....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-77158947958621464762018-02-17T17:30:00.003-08:002018-02-17T17:36:53.336-08:00Pryor Creek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">A group of five journeyed to Pryor this morning to check out some newish trailz. I say "ish" cuz I've run here twice before and have wanted to share the fun playground in this low-lying area along Pryor Creek.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We met at the Elliot trailhead--probably named after a nearby landowner who may have allowed access to the lushly wooded tract. (I'm guessing here.)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">It had rained during the night. How bad? Weather apps had varying opinions on the coverage area and amounts. My app showed the edge of the rain was right over where we would be running. When we started out, there was a steady mist, and I had taken off my windbreaker but put it right back on. It was actually great for running though, and the precip let up within the first mile. Only in a few spots was there any standing water or unmanagable mud.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">These are nice soft single track trailz with very little in the way of hills and after I had my first mile that sucks out of the way, I settled into a semi-fast (for me) pace that felt wonderful. If I had longer hair, it would have been flapping in the wind.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Now I thought I had heard these trailz were only a couple of years old, but there were several of these nice park benches along the way that looked older--but who knows?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Oops--I forgot to mention the members of our tribe. Pictured above are Lynna and Mishelle. Pictured below are Kate and Taylor--aka Tay Tay.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Kate ventured down a steep embankment so Tay Tay could get a drink. The climb back out involved a lot of slipping and sliding and 4-legs towing 2-legs to level ground.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This HUGE fallen tree has been laying here for over a year and a half. It's getting lower and lower as time passes. Some of our group climbed under. Kate and Taylor went over. I took a path down a steep embankment and did my slip and slide act basically paving my backside with slick sticky mud.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">There were lots of fallen trees. Lynna dared, begged, and pleaded with me to walk across this one, It was wet, slimy, and not only guaranteed sending me to a cold baptism but also my untimely death. Everyone knows TZ no swimmy. If I were a fish, I'd be a bottom dweller.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Right after crossing Troll Bridge, a bridge that seemed way different the last time I crossed it, we met this tree standing menacingly overseeing our passage. A brief fog swirled in adding to the mystique. I remembered more of a steel bridge. Maybe it had simply been redecked with CCA treated wood planks.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Here are the remnants of another passage over the river. I had crossed the stream and climbed out the other side on these odd concrete steps last time here, but with the mud and the flow of the river, we decided to bypass this adventure.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Connecting the north trailz with the south, we ran along the edge of what was once a hayfield. We were about five miles <span style="text-align: center;">in at this point, and I was still enjoying a great run.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">It was somewhere along this stretch that food was mentioned. Instantly, my stomach growled. All I could think about was pancakes.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Here we are crossing the fallen tree. Youth and canine fly over the top. Lynna had my phone and took pics. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We ended u with 6.1 miles. Would have been 6.2 had we not taken a shortcut on the way back. Everyone enjoyed the trailz, and we will possibly return later in the year--but not when the ticks are bad. Yes, I got my pancakes. We hit the Denny's out on HWY 69.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Next trip--in 2-3 weeks. I'm open to suggestions as to a locale. If you'd like to jump in and explore trailz with us, visit TZ'z Trail Trips on Facebook.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">My training schedule, which is near nothing, took a very gradual upturn this past weekend. Mostly, it has consisted of walking the dogs at night and doing a trail race on the weekends. I did three races in January, but only have one on tap for February.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">My bestie Chrissy Whitten asked if I could squeeze out time for a run Friday night, and I took her up on the idea. She needed 24 miles, and I was game but doubted I could keep up with her for much of that. She did a little of her scheduled 25 miles on the treadmill though and 15 was the final required amount for her to meet her training. For me--any run was training compared to what I have been doing.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I suggested LaFortune Park. It's a 3.25-mile loop, some asphalt, some chat. It's mostly except for the semi-scary places where it's not.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> When we have run together in the past, we usually got into some kind of shenanigans--nothing destructive, but it's possible that someone somewhere would not see the humor in our selfies. I wanted to hop up on this huge steam-roller (for want of a better name for it.) My luck, I'da kicked it out of gear and see it rolling down the embankment smashing everything in its path.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Its a big deal for Chrissy to find money on her runs. She views it as pennies from heaven--sort of a sign from God that He's thinking about her--and of course He is. I actually was the one who spotted the quarter and penny in the gravel and was part of God's plan to see them for her. I like that. I usually pick up pennies, thinking I only need to pick up a penny 100 million times to be a millionaire.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We did three laps for 9.7 miles by my watch. Even with our bathroom stops and picture taking, we averaged just a few seconds over 16-minute miles. That was something for me to build on. It's been so long since I've even given a flip about my pace, but that will need to change if I am gonna finish another 100-miler.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We usually go to Turkey Mountain and sometimes do the pavement, but we prefer the trailz. This night, for a change, I took them to the parking lot south of 96th/Riverside. They have never been there, and with the wide paved trailz, I thought I could keep them from being distracted from all the new smells in the grass, bushes, and around trees. Whatever. They stopped t sniff practically every blade of grass between Riverside Drive and Yale Ave. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We got 3.5 miles in with the return trip a bit faster. I am thinking if I can get Zeke and Roxie a little more focused on running, they can be my training buddies. Zeke needs the exercise, and they are both eager to go. We can help each other out.</span></b>....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6784194833095052545.post-38551780347037707102018-01-31T20:38:00.002-08:002018-01-31T20:52:50.001-08:00Greenleaf 20K, and some other ramblings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Last year I had signed up for the inaugural Greenleaf 30K at Greenleaf Lake east of Braggs Oklahoma. I also was supposed to board a cruise ship early the next morning in Galveston--so I skipped the run. Now I have run these trailz three times prior and I was well aware that the upper route was quite hilly and technical in places, and was eager this year to plow right through the course. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I had Brandon and Cameron Plate riding with me and they were both signed up for the 30K. They are both 40 years younger than me and 40 times faster than me, so my questionable math skills directed me to do the 20K so I could beat them to the finish line. Haha. I even took a 30-minute early start, leaving out with the 30Kers.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Most of the route was on single track with a little bit of jeep road every now and then. We also had to run a highway bridge across the lake, running on an asphalt shoulder and a narrow concrete shoulder on the actual bridge. The state park people had coned off the road funneling both directions into one lane taking turns to pass through. I bet we got a lot of dirty snarling looks from non-runners who had to wait.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A mile or so in, this trail sloped precariously close to the edge where one slip of the shoe might send you rolling down the embankment into the lake. Trekking poles--I'm glad I brought them today.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The outbound trail stays close to the shore and has a few little ups and owns, but is way flat compared to what comes later. This cove was beautiful, but I could not get a good snap that captured the beauty and serenity. Bushwhacking to the shore a little further back might have been the ticket, but hey--I ws in a race. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The aid station at Mary's Cove was the turning point for the 20 and 30Kers. From here, we headed eastward up a steep hill and then turned back south, but the 30Kers went north onto some of the more remote areas. I heard multiple moanings about the hills on the north loop being terrible.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">For the 20K things got rough for the next few miles--even more so for the 30Kers. You had rocks. All sizes. Some loose, some slick, some sharp and sticking up to trip you. Best of all--they were heavily leaf covered. It was trail by braille. I put the trekking poles to non-stop use for the next 5 miles. Not surprising, climbing was easier than descending.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of having mud cake up on my shoes, I had wads of leaves stuck to my poles. Not really a problem, but a minor annoyance.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The always expected--sun-peaking-through-the-trees shot. Yep--I know there was already one posted earlier.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Cameron caught up with me during this section. He was running with a broken toe, or so he said. Yes, he was moving a little slower than normal. But where he passed me with 5 miles to go, he had run 13 miles while I managed only 8. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> AHA!! A clearing. This was after 6 bad climbs, and behold--it was nearly flat </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of old friends caught up with me. Susan and Caroline have run 100s with me--as well as a few 50Ks and road marathons. This day, they were 30 minutes faster than me. But did they stop to take pictures (other than this one?) Did they lollygag around at the aid stations?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Back at Lynna's aid station--the Fireball was gone. I hear newer trail runners say they would NEVER drink on a run, but Fireball has become a staple at trail run aid stations. Notice the large empty bottle. My buddy Travis had saved one shot just for me!!!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">What did I learn from this run? Hmmm. Umm....if you keep going, you will eventually finish.? I guess I can claim that. Most encouraging was what happened later that evening. I met with acquaintances from a sacred secret society and spent 4 more hours on treacherous trails in the deep of night to find things that needed to be found. Somehow my worn-out body rose to the occasion and 7.8 miles and 1280 vertical feet later, I accomplished my mission. Both endeavors equaled a good double.</span></b></div>
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....miles to go before i sleep....http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756252414499622608noreply@blogger.com0