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Location:

Billings,MT,

Member Since:

Jan 10, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

~~Longest Ultra: Bighorn Trail Run: 12:19:00, 52 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 20, 2015

50K: Bighorn Trail Run: 5:52:13, 32 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 15, 2013

Marathon: 3:25:01, Deseret News Marathon, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

Half-Marathon: 1:37:00 (downhill), Deseret News Marathon Split, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

10K: 44:07, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2012

5K: 20:25, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back into running shape.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Not get super fat, and qualify for Boston before I'm 50 (April 2023).

Personal:

Started running seriously in March 2010. Married 22 years to a hot momma and we have 3 boys, 1 sweet girl, 2 dogs, 3 2 0 1 cat, and 6     4 5 6 3 5 3 1 2 0 chickens (until Spring 2019 when we'll start over). As of September 2018 I'm looking for work... yay. I'm on the local School Board.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Adrenaline 18 Lifetime Miles: 424.24
Cascadia 12 Lifetime Miles: 396.50
Adrenaline 18 #2 Lifetime Miles: 64.00
Altra Lifetime Miles: 50.50
Brooks 20 Lifetime Miles: 50.00
Cascadia Green/orange Lifetime Miles: 223.00
Total Distance
12.00

12 trail miles, my first "real" trail miles ever, and I loved it. Ran up a trail that I've been on a number of times with my family and my frustration is that we've never made it to anywhere - just pittered away at this rock or that rock, fished in the stream, etc. We've always had fun but I'm a destination guy and we're not a good destination family. In the past we've made it maybe 1.5 miles up the trail and today I made it at least 6. It was awesome. Friday night it rained all night long, literally, and must have quit just before I got up to pee at 5:45. It was too light to pee outside so I walked down to the nearest vault toilet (love that name for a stinky poop infested place) and on the way was amazed at the low clouds and fog all over the surrounding mountains. Gorgeous. Got my stuff on and took off about 6:15. On the trail I got drenched as the ground was soaked and every blade of grass shared their burden with me as I brushed past. I was glad for my dirty girl gaiters, for gloves, and for the first bit for my arm warmers. Lots of slippery rocks, a few spots with 40 feet of 3+ inches of water that I had to find another route around, and just fantastic.views. 

After the run I had breakfast and took a long nap then returned up the same trail with my wife as she wanted to make it to Sioux Charley Lake. It's about 4 miles each way, so I got in about 20 total miles. After the hike and making dinner on an open fire we went for a drive and realized we could pick up the Heat/Celtics game 7 if we were on a mountaintop. We drove from top to top until the game was over. What a game!

AP doesn't matter for a trail run, but total time was 2:26:59. I lost satellite for a while so I'm not sure of the real distance but 12 is pretty close. 

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/187615509 

Brooks ASR 8 Miles: 12.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Kam on Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 16:31:24 from 68.66.163.179

Sounds excellent, Russ. Happy anniversary.

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