Countdown to HURT 2016
43 Days: My Nemesis – Trail Running with Wet Feet!
I have discovered my nemisis . . . wet feet. Every since the wet and muddy adventure at Peacock 100k with mud and rain, not only have I had a mental aversion to wet feet, but my feet just aren’t handling water the same as they did on that day. It seems that after only…
Read More110 Days: Letter to the Doc about Pneumonia Recovery
I dropped off the map after Triple Trek because I got hit HARD with pneumonia the day after the race! I’ve been noting to my self and putting a little on Facebook about the whole ordeal but I thought the following might be interesting to someone. Pneumonia is brutal. I’ll likely post on that experience…
Read More148 Days: Measuring in Hours, Not Miles = Adventure!
The little pep talk with myself goes something like, “Okay, if you wake up at 4:00am and get out the door by 4:30am, you can run for 4 hours and be back in time to take Soul to preschool by 8:45am. Let’s see where can I go that’s going to be about 2 hours each direction, and what do I need to bring?” Adventure!!!
Read More155 Days: Too Many Electrolytes on Maunawili
I have a tendency to overdo it. My goal this year for the 22 mile Maunawili Out & Back was to finish the race with gas in the tank. I didn’t go out too fast like I did last year, refilled my water pack at the turnaround (like I didn’t to last year), and paced my…
Read More162 Days: My first encounter with fear of running was at Maunawili 2013
Two days from now is the Maunawili Out and Back “race”, also known as Run with the Pigs, that starts up at the Pali Lookout, goes down to Waimanalo, then back up. It’s 22 miles and can be run as a relay or individual run. I’ll be going solo on this one. They do a staggered…
Read More163 Days: Okay, this is going way too fast.
It hasn’t even been a week yet, and numbering these posts as a countdown to HURT is making time seem to go way to fast. I may have to pull those off eventually. Anyway, yesterday I finally put in my registration for Peacock 100k in October. There were only 30-something spots open and the registration…
Read More164 Days: An hour to get just me ready?
Ah, I’m back in the saddle for early morning and late night runs. I’ve been missing my headlamp forever, and my blinky arm band, and wouldn’t you know it, last night I found ’em both! So, I set the alarm for 4am to get out for a run. It went off at 4am and I…
Read More165 Days: My first day . . . a day off (LOL!)
It’s Monday, and that means it was my wife, Heidi’s, morning to go running, stand up paddling, swimming or whatever. Heidi is a rock star and loves being out and moving. With 4 kids we can’t take off at the same time, so we’ve come up with a little system. Monday, Wednesday, Friday are her…
Read More166 Days Until HURT 100 Trail race for 2016
I’m in! Today my name was drawn to participate in the HURT 100 in January and I’m both humbled and thrilled to know that January 2016 is going to be my year to put my self on that amazing course. And that’s what this blog is all about . . . for now. I say…
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