I would like to thank all those that played the Guess My Time, Win Crap contest for the Run For the Deaf 5k this past Saturday. I don’t have the “official” results, but it looks like unofficially that David Peach of Missionary Talks fame (@dpeach on twitter) will be the winner of the crap great [...]

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I was thinking that I was going to do a Tale of Two Races, but then thought that it would be too difficult to try to bear the poor performance at both races. I thought for sure that I would do better on 4/17/2010 for the Breakthrough Run for Autism. However, that was NOT the [...]

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On February 28, 2010 I had my 12 year RUNiversary, and what a strange race it turned out to be… The Whitestone 30k is a road race whose START/FINISH is at the Whitestone Inn in Paint Rock, TN. I had ran it back in 2002, but given it’s distance and date (traditionally, a Sunday) I [...]

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2009 Flying Monkey Marathon Race Report Date 11.22.2009 Location: Percy Warner Park, Antioch TN Abstract This was my second consecutive running of this race, and while I was excited about the event, I was grossly undertrained. With low motivation in August, when training was supposed to start, to a sliced heel in September and then [...]

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There is a podcast version of this in the works. It’s just that I have been migrating my computer stuff at work from a dead WinXP machine to a new and speedy Windows7 machine. So, my processing power quadrupled! Which means that I can work easier, but I have been in the process of getting [...]

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I wasn’t really expecting much out of the race and my finishing time showed it: 26:21 Despite having one of my slowest 5k times in recent memory, I was pleased with my technical approach to the race. The Scholar’s Run isn’t known for it’s gentle rolling hills. In fact, on the tougher part of the [...]

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I am now more than a month removed from the actual race, but I can still visualize parts of the race. Overall, I did not achieve the time that I was aiming for, 4:15, but rather finished in a 4:36:07, but I am not complaining (too much). Technically, I think I ran the race pretty [...]

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There is something different about this marathon. It has extra Savoir Faire, to quote John & John, to say the least. I discovered this right at packet pickup when I met the race director, Trent, and him telling me that I was a fool and didn’t heed his advice. While standing in line, Trent asked [...]

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Normally when I do a race report, especially a longer race report, I use a A-F Grading System for different aspects of the Race, but since the 2008 Rutledge Marathon was the inaugral running, I don’t think it’s quite fair to grade things, especially compared to other marathons that have larger budgets and have worked [...]

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The 2008 Big South Fork 17.5mi Trail Run Race Report [ed. note: FINALLY] A Running Play in 3 Acts by Terry Higgins Act 1 – Nature Attacks [The Scene opens to a campsite. A lone camper rustles out of his tent looking at his watch, apparently really groggy and needing something. He moseys over to [...]

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