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Finished marathon #95 yesterday with the Bryce Canyon 50 miler in Utah. Mountains, hoodoos, snow and amazing views. It was a race I’ve been trying to get to for years and it did not disappoint.
Ended up dropping out around mile 55. Right from the beginning something didn’t reel right with me as my breathing wasn’t good and my heartbeat was high and was skipping. Instead of dropping out early, I decided to keep walking and see how far I could make it before missing the cut off time. I […]
Finished a nice 50 mile adventure yesterday from sunrise to sunset with a great group of adventurers (Mark, Matthew, Bernice). Started “south of…
The Antelope Canyon 50 miler was definitely my most challenging and awesome race by far. I walked about the last 13-15 miles and had an official finishing time of 12:23. I highly recommend visiting Page, Arizona sometime and going on the tours of the canyons! Videos of Running Through One Of The Slot Canyons Antelope Canyon
This was definitely the most muddiest trail I’ve ever been on! Definitely worked out some new muscles from having to pull each shoe from the sticky mud each step.
Was going to try the 100, but lack of training and some painful legs decided to do the 50 mile instead! I had some pain around my knee area on the last ultra distance run I did, but didn’t think much of it other than not training as much. However, my legs really started getting […]
Starting around mile 35-40 I started dealing with some asthma and wiggly legs building up (reminded me of when I passed out at my first marathon). I felt my body was telling me the 100 mile run can wait for another day and I pulled out with a DNF at the aid station at mile […]