With the big turkey day upon us, think about running far today.  Coming next week is the North Face 50 odds!  This should definately be a hot race to follow.  Hopefully, I’ll have some connection in Cali to get me the results.  I’m working on that.  With $10,000 on the line for the winner, it’s sure to be fast.  The Men’s and Women’s races will both be tigth, right from the start. The Speedgoat 50k online registration will begin on January 1st, 2010.  We’re still hoping to get 200 runners in this crazy race.  11,000′ of climb is all I should need to say to get 200 of you here.  Trust me, it’ll entertain you!   Watch the video here, let us entice you a little bit.  On my own end of things, I’ve found it entertaining to flip through a few blogs and read about the Western States Track Meet Lottery, [...]

Devon Crosby-Helms killed it for the women, breaking Ann Lundlbad’s record by a scant 21 seconds!!! She must have been thinking about that for the last 10 miles!   1 Gregory Crowther    36   1/212  M SEATTLE      5:50:13  7:01    2 Michael Arnstein    32   2/212  M NEW YORK      5:50:58  7:02    3 Matt Woods          30   3/212  M FALLS CHUR    5:54:10  7:05    4 Hal Koerner         33   4/212  M ASHLAND       6:05:02  7:19    5 Chad Ricklefs       42   1/298  M BOULDER       6:06:51  7:21    6 Matthew Lavine      35   5/212  M CRYSTAL LA   6:08:17  7:22    7 Oz Pearlman         37   6/212  M NEW YORK     6:09:39  7:24    8 Ben Ingram          32   7/212  M BALTIMORE    6:21:45  7:39    9 Jon Lawler          46   2/298  M KNOXVILLE     6:24:20  7:42   10 Devon Crosby-Helms  27   1/37   F SAUSALITO     6:29:21  7:48   11 Scott Jurek         36   8/212  M SEATTLE       6:31:12  7:50   12 Josh Brimhall       34   9/212  M HENDERSON     6:32:13  7:51   13 Andrew Mason        37  10/212  M HAGERSTOWN    6:34:36  7:54  [...]

Well, the plan was to run the North Face 50 in San Francisco.  Due to a weak webpage and updated runners list,  I didn’t get the invitation or money in, in time.  So I bagged it.  I don’t feel I am qualified to compete for the $$ anyway, so I decided I’d go run another 100 miles to get rid of this nagging periformis issue I’ve been having.   The one thing I’ll be missing is chasing the front of the women’s race in the Marin Headlands…..not to mention the original plan was to go visit some good friends in Ashland before the race.  That’ll have to wait for another road trip. So another 100?  Why not?  I feel fine, other than the periformis.  The periformis hurt before the Pinhoti 100 two weeks ago, only to go numb by mile 40. It stayed numb until the following Wednesday. Funny how running a [...]