Comments on: Raw and Honest

By: cheryl

cheryl — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:45:03 +0000

thank you. i know i’m commenting late in the game, but i really enjoyed the 2007 Hitchcock Woods 50k race report. so inspiring!

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:29:41 +0000

Gretchen,

Much like Professor Snape, I am pulled in two directions.

- D

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:24:50 +0000

Great report Dean, and congrats on your first ultra! Pretty exciting stuff. Once you get sucked into the world of ultras, Boston will seem like nothing. Don’t get me wrong, Boston is my favorite marathon I’ve ever run and an incredible experience. Road marathons just seem so tame after trail ultras. Both awesome, but apples and oranges, you know? Anyway, I can’t wait to hear more about your running adventures.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:10:55 +0000

What a run…not really a race for me! I did my run on limited training…really none! A 12 mile run a month previous to Hitchcock was about it for me…it was a true bitch but I did it after getting lost on the first loop for about an hour. It is amazing what the human body can do with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and fruit. I consumed NO power gels for the first time…that is because I did not have any. I felt pretty good afterwards thanks to the pizza and barley soda my friends gave me! Lets do it again next year…make sure you make it wheel chair accessable for me please!

By: ian

ian — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:29 +0000

wow. that sounds awesomely horrible.

i used to live in south carolina as a kid, and my mom referred to sand as “the enemy,” infiltrating our house through the trojan horse of our shoes. sounds like you conquered that enemy and a few others.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:18:15 +0000

#191,

Great run at Hitchcock. NYC is nice, but I will see you in BOSTON someday.

#540

By: russ # 191

russ # 191 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:08:40 +0000

Dean, you’re a poet! That was memorable, wasn’t it? Well done. Sorry I won’t see you at NYC. Some other time!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:13:38 +0000

I love the focus on the simple things such as the satisfaction the pizza gave you and the joy of having your shirt returned. I’m waiting to see a Major League Baseball player go on the disabled list with Nipple Discomfort. That’s hilarious. Congrats on a fine run.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:20:13 +0000

Kestrou,

Crewing Badwater? SWEET!

- Dean

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:17:04 +0000

My Steamtown plan is titled “Triples-R-Us.”

For the uninitiated, A “Triple” refers to three 9.5 mile loops on the trails. Several of these triples form the backbone of my next Boston attempt; each at the “putting hair on your chest” distance of about 28.5 miles.

Yikes.

- Dean

By: Slow Rick

Slow Rick — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:44:04 +0000

That was an ultramatic report!

We have tasted the red Koolaid of the ultra world, and I don’t think that we will ever be quite the same. Hitchcock was a great introduction into the raw & honest world which holds many more challenges than the marathon.

The training you did for this will pay huge dividends at Steamtown! You better have some more triples in the plan, that will be the key workout to get you to Boston.

By: kestrou

kestrou — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:50:54 +0000

Now that you’ve “crossed the line” – and skipped happily into the insane asylum of Ultra-Running, you can only expect the madness to increase in severity.

What’s next? Well, after a 50K, it will take a 50 miler to sate your desire for even greater pain and suffering. And after that…

Well, that would be where I’m at – a 50 miler veteran, I’m currently planning my 100-miler this fall, and am crewing a friend at BadWater this summer – so who knows what 2009 may hold?!

Run on brother!

kestrou