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Marathon #114 is complete at the Punch Out Ultra 8 hour! I wasn’t planning on doing this but ended up signing up for it the night before the race and figured I’d get some time and miles on my feet to get ready for Oak Mountain next month.
Finished my 113th marathon today at Mindi’s 40 Mile Donut Run! We ran 30-A east-to-west and then the reverse back while starting, finishing and stopping at different doughnut stores.
Finished my 13th 100 miler trail race today (112th marathon overall) at the Long Haul 100 near Lakeland, Florida. My knee issue held up pretty good but doing a couch-to-100 miler is not recommended to anyone!
Some views from my run today with the crazy fog blocking the bridge and cities.
The picture of the 3 mile bridge leading into the bay is facing towards Gulf Breeze.
The brighter blue picture should be showing downtown Pensacola from the bridge. Looks like Pensacola
If you haven’t paced or crewed someone at a 100+ miler yet, then you should. Completely different ball game and much different than a regular marathon or shorter ultras.
This was my third year in a row completing the Lang Haul 100 miler. My knee issue started flaring up and pretty much walked the majority of miles at the end.
Ran with the Crop Dusters in Destin and got marathon #109 on winter solstice 2024. Always great running with them.
Finished marathon run #108 today while pacing the 4:45 group at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon. Official finish time was 4:44:43 so we finished right where we wanted to. It was great seeing friends and making new ones during the race.
I DNF’d Pinhoti 100 yet again (about mile 34). Around mile 25, I started having some pain start back up that I had experienced a few days after running Rebecca Mountain last month, which brought me down to just walking. I knew I could have kept going as I still had an hour before the cut off time, but knew I wouldn’t make it the entire way with just walking so I dropped out early before it got worse.
I wanted to get 30 miles in today since Pinhoti 100 is just 2 weeks away! Split the 30 mile run into 3 sections since I’m pacing the training program. The first section was running to RW before the marathon training program started. Section 2 was the 15 mile training run. For the last 2 miles, I wanted get a few miles of speed walking in. This walking pace would get you to a sub 24 finish for a 100 miler. Two more weeks until Pinhoti 100.
Finished the Rebecca Mountain 50 miler at 12:08. It was great run, especially with seeing everyone and waiting for others at the finish! Great mountain views and good times with trail running friends.
I finished my 11th 100-miler this morning and ended up winning the Wildcat 100 mile race. The heat/humidity got brutal on Saturday so I waited to get back running when the sun went down. Time to rest up. M#104
Had a good run for Caleb’s birthday run. They’re faster than me so I started a little earlier. Things started getting hot once I was got to the last 4-5 miles. I forgot to restart my watch and missed a mile.
Finished up marathon #102 on the Conecuh trails in Alabama. It was a good run and saw a few snakes
It was nice. Mark Porter finished his 50 miler over all the big boy hills! Got hot in the day but I didn’t start pacing until after lunch. Marathon #101.
I finished my 100th marathon today within 10 years since my first. It was awesome and great joining the Running Wild party bus to pace the 4:30 marathon pace. So glad that everyone in the marathon training group finished. Surprised and so happy to see everyone from previous pacing that came and supported my 100th marathon today.
Finished Long Haul 100 with a Sub 24 hour finishing time. This was my personal best for a 100 miler and I got the special green belt buckle since I completed the 100 miler in less than 24 hours. The route was flat but miserable due to the storms that hit the days leading up to the race which made a large amount of the route to be extremely muddy and wet.
Great trails that were well maintained. We saw two different groups of hogs and friendly deer. The hogs are really tearing up the trail. I want a bacon biscuit now.