“This is the loneliest race I have ever done,” lamented a female runner as she passed me like I was standing still at Mile 38. “I was really looking forward to that last water stop because I thought, ‘Good, there will be someone there,’ but there was no one…”
Indeed, she was only the second runner I had seen in the last eight miles. The other was another woman who passed me like I was standing still.
The Rocky Mountain Double Marathon — a 52.4 mile run — wasn’t like this for entire duration of the race. At the 6:00 am start of the race there were at least 80 other people doing the “mere” 26.2-mile option, and at least 17 other runners attempting the double. In fact, during Miles 20-26, I was far from alone. Continue reading »
“Dear lord,” wrote my buddy Dan after I forwarded him the news. “I thought letting 14 year olds run a marathon was bad enough to lock up a parent. But a 4-year-old!!!”
Actually, Budhia Singh — the 4-year-old from India dubbed “Marathon Boy” and “India’s Forrest Gump” — did not run a marathon yesterday. He ran farther… much farther. In fact, perhaps enough to set a world record for a kid: 40 miles! Continue reading »
This is a log of all of the races I have done in my life. Continue reading »
This was supposed to be the 34-mile Epiphany Ultra, except I got lost. So I did 16 miles of muddy trails instead…
These are the most challenging events I’ve ever done, listed in order of difficulty. Most are in California, since that’s where I lived until I moved to Colorado in October 2005. The difficulty is completely subjective (and my humble opinion only), but it gives you an idea of what I think are harder: e.g., double centuries vs. marathons! Continue reading »
, Budhia Singh of India ran 40 miles at 4 years old. (Photo: AP / Biswaranjan Rout)&title=The "With an entire entourage behind him (police officers, medics, politicians, spectators, etc.), Budhia Singh of India ran 40 miles at 4 years old. (Photo: AP / Biswaranjan Rout)")
