AK’s Adventures

Until Saturday at the Leona Divide, my fastest 50 mile trail PR was my 50 mile split at Vermont 2 years ago.  Although if I included road races too, the Comrades in 2001 would be slightly faster (on a longer course) at 8:50 — my first ultra, running a negative split for a Bill Rowan [...]

I took a photo of the first 70 or so finishing times. When I left, there were quite a few still out on the course. Jorge and Krissy took the top honors again. Full report soon.

Well…Lucy just left with her husband Greg in a big U-haul for Boise, with most of her stuff, which means there’s no furniture anymore in the house, including my bed I was borrowing — not even a single chair. A lot of my belongings are still here, including both my bikes, bike case, plus [...]

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Sarah/Wendell and I were chatting about the UD bottles and how much we preferred the old-school cap versus the nipple thing they came up with, and how I was treating my last remaining 3 I have left like gold.  Well…they were happy to inform me that Ultimate Direction has begun selling those again.
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Signs of possible cardiac damage have been found in some marathoners. More screening may be wise, a researcher says.

By Cameron Walker, Special to The Times
April 16, 2007
In the marathon’s early days, runners who churned through its 26.2-mile course were thought to be putting their lives on the line. “People used to watch these races to [...]

Hopefully that number will make it across the finish line at Auburn early Sunday morning on June 24th.
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Btw, the guy that’s going to surprise everyone this year will be Jae-Duk Sim — if he runs WS like how he ran Massanutten last year, he’s going to win. You heard [...]

Final update: Al Harman finishes in 3:31:31.
12:17 EST: Lidiya Grigoreyeva wins the women’s race in 2:29:18. Deena Kastor takes the American title in 2:27:06, coming in 5th overall. Robert Cheruiyot wins in the slowest time since 1985 in 2:07:25. Peter Gilmore is the first American male, finishing in 2:09:24, 8th overall. [...]

That’s exactly how much faster I ran the Santa Monica 50K yesterday, which worked out to be just more than an hour difference from the previous year!  Why the wide variation, I still can’t figure out for sure, but part/most of it was due to the perfect weather we were blessed with — cool temperatures [...]

Course record at McNaughton 17:42, with Akos Konya runner-up at 18:55 — both times unofficial.