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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: In Beauty May I Walk: Spring Superior 50K 2015 Race Report
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Sunday, May 24, 2015. In Beauty May I Walk: Spring Superior 50K 2015 Race Report. I will arise and go now, for always night and day. I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;. While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,. I hear it in the deep heart's core. William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". It's a special race. I did my first 50K. And including a 34-mile, 13 hour slow and steady pacing gig at Zumbro. It was a gloomy, foggy day....
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: Superior 100 Mile: Pacing Report
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Superior 100 Mile: Pacing Report. I agreed to pace Travis about two weeks before the Superior 100, when his original pacer became injured. I hadn't "officially" paced a runner before, though I did some improptu pacing for the last 20 km of last year's Icebox 480. There were a lot of unknowns: Was my runner going to still be in the race? Cutoff times could be a problem. On the other hand, would I be able to keep up with him. A quick shoe change, ...
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: January 2015
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Sunday, January 4, 2015. 40K for 40 Years. Or, since I didn't have a GPS thingy, how about a 6-hour run? My birthday fell on a Tuesday, so I looked at the following Saturday, January 3. I pitched the idea on the Upper Midwest Trail Runners' Facebook page and got a good response, even though it was the same weekend as Tuscobia. A quick group picture. Thanks, Christina, for taking the picture! And we were off again. I hung with Amy, Matt, Shannon and Erin for a while as ...
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: Sunshine, Mud, and Euphoria on the Trails: 2014 Spring Superior 50K Race Report
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Monday, May 19, 2014. Sunshine, Mud, and Euphoria on the Trails: 2014 Spring Superior 50K Race Report. Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today. And give us not to think so far away. As the uncertain harvest. Keep us here. All simply, in the springing of the year. Robert Frost, "A Prayer in Spring". Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.". JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit. Turning around at Carlton Peak. 33 miles at Zumbro. Three weeks beforehand. My weekly mileage...
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: 60 hours at Zumbro 2015 (volunteer and pacing report)
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Monday, April 20, 2015. 60 hours at Zumbro 2015 (volunteer and pacing report). One of the best things about being between jobs this spring was the chance to spend a few days volunteering and pacing at Zumbro Endurance Runs. It's got a special place in my heart as the race I still haven't quite gotten a handle on. Two years ago, I broke my elbow. At mile 34 in a thunderstorm. Drive down Thursday morning under ominous clouds. But the rain is only beginning to get started...
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: This is just to say
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Tuesday, March 3, 2015. This is just to say. This is just to say. The 70 minute workout. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Runner, physician, mother. Having fun discovering trail running. Trying to solve the mystery of how to train for an ultra, work full time, and still have dinner with my family every night. View my complete profile. Proud to be an INKnBURN ambassador! Steve in a Speedo? November Training and Injury Updates. Run Race. Repeat. Heading to Las Vegas?
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: Superior Fall 100, 50, and Marathon: Volunteer Report
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Superior Fall 100, 50, and Marathon: Volunteer Report. Well, that was pretty awesome. Ever since last year's Fall Superior trail races. This is the aid station volunteer report. The pacing report is here. It really needed its own post. Apologies for the relative lack of pictures; it was dark, and then I was busy. It's still a good story, though. En Route: Jay Cooke and the North Shore. It was great to be back at the swinging bridge! I asked....
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: August 2014
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Voyageur 50 Mile 2014 Race Report. Finish line thunderstorm: Me, Todd, and a photobomb by Julio. Prologue: Always a threat to finish. After a pretty excellent training cycle (3 50K races - Spring Superior. But, as race week approached, with a lot of rest and some major intervention from my awesome ART guy. Thursday night I packed everything for race day, and (separately) everything for a week's vacation. Friday before the race I was at work at ...
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: 40K for 40 Years
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Sunday, January 4, 2015. 40K for 40 Years. Or, since I didn't have a GPS thingy, how about a 6-hour run? My birthday fell on a Tuesday, so I looked at the following Saturday, January 3. I pitched the idea on the Upper Midwest Trail Runners' Facebook page and got a good response, even though it was the same weekend as Tuscobia. A quick group picture. Thanks, Christina, for taking the picture! And we were off again. I hung with Amy, Matt, Shannon and Erin for a while as ...
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye: Race report: Zumbro Midnight 50 Miler, 2014
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Better Than a Stick In The Eye. Monday, April 14, 2014. Race report: Zumbro Midnight 50 Miler, 2014. I dropped at 33 miles, and about 9:55 in, with hypothermia after traversing a ridge in a thunderstorm, unprepared for the weather. I know I made the right call. But I'm still on a lingering high from an incredible weekend. So many people did great things, so many acts of generosity and selflessness, so much joy and pain and emotion. Wow. Wouldn't have missed it for anything. Still smiling at mile 31?