Every Ultra Day

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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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Yamacraw Update

February 18, 2020 /

Part of fitting ultra running into your life, as opposed to fitting your life into ultra running, is that occasionally things don’t turn out like you had planned. Last year I had gotten onto the wait list for Yamacraw along with my running partner Brent and brother-in-law, Joe Dan. Brent was towards the front of the list and easily got into the race, but he was worried we wouldn’t get in and decided to decline his entry. As fate would have it, both I and Joe Dan would eventually get into the race, but with Brent having already declined entry it didn’t seem right for us to go, so we both decided to forego our entries as well. Hopefully this was the closest thing to a Shakespearean tragedy I’ll ever have to experience. I can live with that.

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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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