2011 – What a year!

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2011 was quite the year for running for me. I ended up doing 16 trail running events including three 10-mile runs, four half marathons, one 25k, one 20-mile, one full marathon (finally) and one 50k ultra. Given that is all my previous years I would train for only 1-3 half marathons this was quite a shift.  By June my weekend long run was rarely shorter than 13 miles aside from tapering weeks and I ended up with 20 runs that were half marathon length or longer.  For the year I ran just over 1350 miles, which turns out to be the equivalent of a marathon a week. Of course I stared out the year with less that 20 miles per week, peaked in the fall at 40+ and ended the year with an average of 30 miles per week so I’m expecting to get in even more miles next year.

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The Unlikely Ultramarathoner

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Running the Echo Valley 50k, still smiling

I began running in college and have run most of my adult life off and on.   It used to be all road running and, like most people, I started out with a few miles, worked my way up to a 10k event, a 20k event and finally a half marathon before contemplating a full marathon.   Yet, that full marathon was elusive, every time I tried for it I got hurt.

The first time I was in my late 20’s when I decided to run the Des Moines Marathon.  I had done several 10k runs and a 20k and began increasing my mileage.  Once I got above 25 miles per week though I ended up with hip tendonitis so bad that I had to stop and take some time to recover.

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Andros South – Nov 2011

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Andros South Lodge

When winter was lingering on well into July I was having an email exchange with Capt. Bruce Chard in Big Pine Key and was complaining about the weather and said I’d need a bonefish fix one day soon if it kept up. He replied saying he had one spot left for his November trip to South Andros and a spot left on the charter flight out of Launderdale that could actually make the travel acceptable. I signed up for a week at Deneki’s Andros South Lodge and the opportunity for sun and warmth in November.

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Deception Pass 25k

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Rosario Head - photo by Glenn Tachimaya

I thought that my long runs were over when I finished the Echo Valley 50k but I just kept running and did a few more events in October.   I then got mail from Rainshadow Running that the Deception Pass registration would open and decided I had to do it, we love Deception Pass and I’ve hiked many of the trails there over the years so I thought this would be a perfect way to end the year and finally get in an official 25k. Continue reading →