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Snow Show Marathon Here I Come

Shelley and I will be hitting the road heading to Salt Lake City. From there it is a short 90 minute drive past Orem to the Kahtoola Big Foot Snowshoe Festival. This will be the first time I have ever worn snow shoes (and to be perfectly honest will be the first time […]

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Idaho Invasion

Al’s Ship of Fools has descended on Mesa Falls, Idaho this weekend. Around 15 runners have traveled from Austin along with one from Dallas to run the Mesa Falls Marathon tomorrow. Apparently it was such a big deal we even made the local paper.
We’re planning on taking home a lot of hardware tomorrow […]

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Humpy’s Big Wild Alaska Marathon [08/17/2008]

Today was the Humpy’s Great Alaska Alehouse Marathon in Anchorage Alaska. The weather was absolutely perfect. It stayed in the 50s for the whole race, the humidity was low and it never rained.
The race started at 9am, which was noon in Texas, so it felt like a really late start to my body. The plus […]

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Humpy’s is tomorrow

Tomorrow will be state #43 in the quest for 50. Today was a really lazy day, recovering from our harrowing experience on the glacier yesterday (more on that later). We finally managed to leave the hotel and head out to packet pickup and then we headed to lunch at the title sponsor, Humpy’s […]

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Carrolton Michigan Marathon Pre-race

We landed in Detroit and headed up to Carrolton for the Carrolton Michigan marathon. This is a race that is basically eight 5k loops with and an extra loop thrown in for good measure to get you to 26.2 miles. In order to get to the High School for packet picket up […]

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