The Boston Marathon is, for many people, the ultimate race. For me, it was the finale in a three day weekend of races. On Saturday I manned an aid station at the inaugural running of the Traprock 50K. My friends Steve and Kevin created this race to share the love they have for running Connecticut’s… Read more »
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I’m not strong but I’m lucky
On Wednesday: We Arrive I don’t know why we started at SuperMini. I don’t think I’ve ever climbed here before, but other people in the group have so we should have been forewarned. I step up on the first moves of my first route in the waning hours of our first day in Mexico and… Read more »
Thanksgiving Spread
Running with Kevin the Monday before Thanksgiving, I mentioned that I had nothing whatsoever planned for the four day weekend. I didn’t mind. It sounded like a nice relaxing weekend, a chance to catch up on chores, pay some bills, vacuum, maybe watch a game or two. But I have too many friends and too… Read more »
November what-now?
What a beautiful weekend. Saturday morning it was a little chilly waiting for the start of the Air Line Ghost Rail Run, but not as bad as I’d feared. I went into the race with low motivation. My last tempo run hadn’t gone well and I wondered why I was choosing to run 13.1 miles… Read more »
Running friendly, running blind
There was a time when I wondered why I found myself running more and climbing less, so I ticked off all the reasons why running can be awfully more convenient than climbing. One of them was that you don’t need a partner to run. Still, a partner can be fun. Friday night my stepbrother Graham… Read more »
It’s the climb
Steve asks: Why do we need goals? and I’m going to answer with some lyrics from a Miley Cryus song, as lame as knowing the lyrics to a Miley Cyrus song may be: There’s always gonna be another mountainI’m always gonna wanna make it moveAlways gonna be an uphill battle,Sometimes I’m gonna have to loseAin’t… Read more »
Pineland Farms 50M 2009
After my training run last weekend I was feeling pretty chipper. I figured if I could do 40 miles in 8 hours under non-race conditions, then 50 miles in 10 hours on race day was in the bag. Despite Steve’s dire warnings that I’d trained too hard too close to race day, I plotted an… Read more »
Gear and gadgets
I’m not a gear hound. My love of trad climbing has something to do with gear–the placing of it, the puzzling it out–but I don’t go nuts for the newest toy. I have a very strict policy that nothing can be added to the rack without something of similar weight being subtracted, and my rack… Read more »
Taking the cat for a drag
I managed to sneak in a few climbs between runs and rain drops. Steve, Dagmar, Kevin and I went to Pinnacle and I led Zamboni, which was new to me and pleasant, and then Steve and I TR’d a few of the usual suspects. The Entertainer felt easier than I remembered it, which I can… Read more »
Lessons Learned
I run, I climb, I forge forward through life. You’d think we’d learn a lot by living, given that we do it for a long time (and frequently), but my thoughts seem to coalesce more clearly while I’m running or climbing. Living? Well. I haven’t got that down yet. I’m doing a lot of running… Read more »