the Way of the Turtle

LONG DISTANCE 2009 - Race #5
Medved Madness 15mi Trail Race
Sunday, May 3, 2009

The Short Version: PR! PR! PR! And on a course which is apparently the longest one yet and the closest to 15 miles. I ran a good race (for me) on a beautiful spring day and didn't come in last. What I did do was cross the finish in 3 hr 3 min... 17 minutes faster than in 2007, and a whopping 43 minutes faster than last year. (In the interest of full disclosure... the very dry spring we've been having left the mud a mere shadow of its former self... sections that were previously pretty gloppy were merely sticky, and sections that were previously ankle deep soupy muck under a layer of water were merely gloppy. That certainly contributed to my faster pace... but I'm still very pleased with how well I did. Now I just have to be ready to run 20 miles in three weeks and 26.4 miles in 5 weeks... and 31 miles in 2 months...)

The Long Version: coming soon

2009 Event Totals
Run 63.6 mi, 14 hr 58 min
Bike 6.2 mi, 39 min
Snowshoe 54.6 mi, 13 hr 05 min
XC Ski 3.3 mi, 1 hr 2 min

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