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Backyard Ultra 50 Miler

May 18, 2020 /

4.1 Miles per hour for 12 hours! May 9th 2020

After running 60 some odd laps around an 800 meter loop a week earlier my legs didn’t feel awful, I felt fresh and the longing for miles had returned. I don’t really have a strategy for the Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee, but I don’t really want to play catch up in August either, so I decided to join some friends for a Backyard Ultra challenge this past Saturday. At that point I was about 50 miles into the GVRAT with around 600 to go. I haven’t been particularly concerned about finishing because if push comes to shove I’ll just cram a lot of miles in a single week.

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Finding Motivation

May 15, 2020 /

May 2nd, 2020 – Natcher 50K

Everyone responds to situations differently and for me the near total shutdown of society beginning in March and extending to the present has unfortunately sapped me of my motivation to go run. The very first weekend I had a half marathon that was cancelled and so I went and ran with some friends and got a solid PR at 132:36 or thereabouts. In doing this I managed to tweak my hamstring, which I believe is suffering from some sort of tendonitis, but at least for a little while longer I won’t be able to be seen about it.

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Race Cancellations and A Half PR

March 19, 2020 /

Snapshot: 3/14/2020, Half Marathon 1:32:38

Well, unless you’ve been living on the moon you must be aware of the Covid-19 virus that is wreaking havoc across the globe. I imagine all of you have also been impacted by it in some way. Fortunately for me, the worst that I’ve had to deal with is simply some race cancellations, which, while being a disappointment, is hardly anything to whine about under the circumstances. I had been scheduled to run the Wendell Foster Half Marathon this past Saturday, but like most events it was postponed until the Fall. I have been training hard for the half marathon and I had planned on pushing for a PR effort at the race.

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The Inaugural Groundhog Day 50K

February 17, 2020 /

February 1st, 2020

33 miles from Bowling Green to Glasgow along 1297

You don’t have to register and pay money to run an ultra-marathon. Don’t get me wrong, formal races are a lot of fun and give you official times that you can use to measure your progress (or to measure yourself against others if you’re one of those types, and we all do this to varying degrees). The competition of being on a course with other runners and the adrenaline boost that you get is unique to formal races. The pressure of not only hitting your personal targets, but also passing and being passed is a pressure that is impossible to duplicate outside of an organized competition. I get that. But you can still push yourself to new and interesting challenges without providing your credit card information, and there’s a certain sense of exploration that comes with ultra running that lends itself well to “unorganized” events. So when a friend offered up an open invitation to run from Bowling Green through the Kentucky countryside to the next county over, I didn’t hesitate to join.

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