100 Run
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 10:42PM After taking 3 months off and gaining 20 pounds, its time to start gearing up for the next adventure. That adventure is going to be
A 100 mile trail run.
The idea was to take this year off, relax after having slammed hard at Ultra distance triathlons for a couple years. However after only a month off I was itching to do more. What the hell do you do after an Ultra distance triathlon??? Well why not just an Ultra distance marathon? There are two reasons for choosing to do a 100 miler (i really don't like the ultra distance marathon naming because it can be any distance from 27 to 100000 miles)
The first reason being that my running has sucked lately, mostly because I have become lazy and bored by it. The second being I feel like a ton a people I know have done 100 milers so why the hell not me. In my head it feels like everyone around me has done one and that im the guy standing around going “O I’ve only done 140.6™ triathlons” and yes I actually say ™ out loud. I know this is wrong, I know this is stupid, but that is what is going on in my head.
Which 100 miler is it going to be, well this is a little bit more sticky of a subject for me. I really want to do Leadville, its the most bad ass hard core rip your throat out and really in all honestly skull fuck you races out there. The only problem is its in colorado and that would be bringing all my CREW out for support. If I really, really really wanted to do that I have a feeling that they would haul out there and it would be bad ass. However the Money and time commitment for that is just ridiculous and stupid, at least for right now (come on lotto).
Instead I have my eyes on two local races with a third crazy idea. The two races are the Old Dominion 100 that is in june and the Massanutten 100 in august I believe. The problem is that the Massanutten race requires a 50 mile pre qualifying race done by dec 2011 for the 2012 100 and apparently it fills up super fast and from what I have read online the only way to get in is by blowing a guy that knows a guy that knows a guy (of course I’m exaggerating). As of right now the old dominion 100 website is down but I believe it too requires a 50 mile pre qualifying race. Now this delves into an entire sub set of neuroses that I have about hoops you have to jump through in order to give someone money to do something completely stupid and subsequently people that want huge crowds when they do races, different conversation different day. Leading us to option three which day by day sounds like more and more fun.
100 miles down/up the Appalachian trail.
Skip the fucking middle man, skip the fucking RD’s (whom I’m sure are great people and have nothing but peoples health and safety in mind) just pull it old school adventure style and get on one of the oldest trails in the country and FUCKING GO!
This is what I am working on right now, along with the Sports Nutrition with THE HolisticGuru show, trying to put up a couple more videos from spain for the BSB Show, and also trying to launch a third show that is more of a round table discussion ALA the old TriCoffee Shop show that was so amazing back in the day (3 years ago).
100Run 
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