Way back in early September, I ran the Blue Ridge Relay with my team, The Mythical Frog Boil. Good news, we came in 6th place, and no one died.
I have yet to complete the race report.
Really, it’s almost done. I promise, you’ll feel like you were actually there; exhausted, smelly, and prone to collide with bats on mountain roads; just like we did.
It looks like I’ll complete it after the Steamtown Marathon this weekend. I guess that makes me the Paul Masson of race reports. If only Orsen Wells were around to do the audio version.
- Dean
Today I depart for the Blue Ridge Relay, a 208 mile relay race run along the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. I’m part of the team, THE MYTHICAL FROG BOIL, a name inexplicable apart from my previous post on the subject of frogs, boiling, and running.
If you’ve never run a long-distance relay race in the mountains, you should. It’s like runapollooza.
We’ll start Friday morning in Virginia and Finish roughly 25-26 hours later in Asheville, North Carolina, never stopping. Along the way we’ll enjoy lovely Smokey Mountain vistas, sleep little, avoid dogs (and presumably bears), probably get lost on the unpaved mountain roads of North Carolina, and consume nothing but simple carbohydrates and Gatorade.
The race report should write itself…
- Dean
