Ramblings From The Road

The ramblings of a rambling runner rambling about running and rambling.

Browsing Posts published in November, 2011

Day two of the foolhardy plan to run two marathons in one weekend brought me down to the Valley of Fire Marathon, appropriately enough in Valley of Fire State Park, in Overton NV, about an hour southwest of Mesquite.  As with Saturday’s Mesquite Tri-State, Valley of Fire is also run by Planet Ultra – and […]

Now that was one impressively run race.  The Mesquite “Tri-States” Marathon may have had some issues in the past, but the race I ran this morning was awesome from start to finish.  I’m not sure exactly what the hubbub was all about, but somewhere along the lines Mammoth Marathons, who used to run this event, […]

Hangin’ on the corner of 52nd and Broadway cars passin’ by but none of them seem to go my way… New York City; well I wish I was on a highway back to Olympia… This past weekend was the forty first running of the New York City Marathon.  Geoffrey Mutai, Emmanuel Mutai, and Tsegaye Kebede […]

This probably isn’t going to be the greatest reflection on my 2011 goals, but let’s just get down to it. Mileage – Holy breaking the consistency, Batman!  After nine solid months consistently above my targeted minimum 104.131456 targeted average for the 2011 kilometer challenge, the taper and recovery of my first marathon in over a year […]

Yeah, we left Utah three weeks ago and settled in to Mesquite, NV for the winter.  But then the organizers of the Provo Halloween Half Marathon started a big push of Facebook ads1, which, coupled with a rude awakening of the cost of a weekend of Vegas parties for Halloween weekend, looked like an awesome […]