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on September 06, 2024

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Yo. I would have been disqualified from a race walk. Maybe.

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Hi. 'member me? An unnecessarily long account of my fourth consecutive DNF at the North Fork 50 miler.

So I have been putting this off. Of course that fits with the routine. I have run every instance of the North Fork 50 mile race, starting in 2010. You can go back and look at race reports here , here , and here . Though most of them are rather depressing. They are all DNF's. In typical fashion, I will give you various versions of this year's race report to adapt to your level of interest. First off, the SHORT SHORT version. DNF Secondly, the SHORT version. I made it to mile 46.4, the last cutoff and was 14 minutes past the cut off. To be honest I didn't have much left at that point. Thirdly, the Ridiculously, Unnecessarily Long version. Ahhh good old North Fork. Site of numerous spectacular failures on my part. I went into this race with my usual absence of any level of confidence. I had failed at Cheyenne Mountain 50k due to a weird injury. My training has been sporadic, and my weight is this side of pianotastic. That being said I had

Grim

It was a dark and stormy night. And then the wind started to blow. I stared into the grim lipped maw of blackness. And then I spoke loudly, saying nothing.

Hard Rock Day

Hello. Today is Hard Rock Day. The running of the 2016 HardRock Endurance Run began today. Check out the coverage here . I suppose if I ever really want to have a chance of doing something other than hitting refresh on a twitter feed on this day. I had better get busy. One continuous mile of running. On a trail.

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