Coaching – Podcasting – Race Directing
I review the Oak Openings Stampede 50K/25K/5K trail race near Toledo, Ohio. Including interviews with Lindsay Weaver and Mike Long who also did the race.
Eventually I’ll post the YouTube version of the podcast! Same exact content, just put on YouTube for those who don’t do podcasts. See the pictures while I talk.
Oak Openings Stampede web site
Packet pickup was at Second Sole of Toledo.
Pictures
Lindsay Weaver and Mike Long
Race start area
The course
Race goodies
I review the Lake Logan Half Triathlon which I did in August 2018 in the mountains of North Carolina. Including an interview with my HERO Chris Miller!
Eventually I’ll post the YouTube version of the podcast! Same exact content, just put on YouTube for those who don’t do podcasts. See the pictures while I talk.
The swim
Transition
Chris Miller! And me. Finishers.
Bluff Mountain Outfitters in Hot Springs, NC
AT symbol right on the sidewalk.
The hike on the AT.
Dinner at the Spring Creek Tavern
I go over all kinds of races and other events I did this summer, including:
Mennonite Relief Sale Trail 5K, Quad Cities Triathlon, Microbrew 6K, Buckeye Bridge Ride, Ride for JDRF, Vandalia Freedom Ride, Racin’ in Mason 5K, some runs my daughter and I did on our vacation in/near Harpers Ferry, RAGBRAI, Steel City Half Day Fat Azz Run, Great Miami Sprint Triathlon, Harbin Park CX (cyclocross), Valley View Nature Preserve CX, and the inaugural Spoken Bicycles to Taft’s Ale House Ride.
Eventually I’ll post a YouTube version of the podcast! Same exact content, just put on YouTube for those who don’t do podcasts. See the pictures while I talk.
Mennonite Relief Sale Trail 5K
Quad Cities Triathlon
Bonnie Busch, whom I interviewed after the triathlon.
Microbrew 6K
Me, my daughter, my sister, my brother-in-law
Buckeye Bridge Ride
Ride for JDRF
Vandalia Freedom Ride
My run around Cincinnati/Ohio River/Newport, Kentucky
Vacation Pics
Baltimore
Bolivar Heights/Schoolhouse Ridge run in Harpers Ferry National Park, West Virginia
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
National Zoo, Washington DC
Ben’s Chili Bowl, Washington DC
Maryland Heights run, Maryland (across from Harpers Ferry)
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
National Mall, Washington DC
RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Bike Ride Across Iowa)
Steel City Half Day Fat Azz Run
Great Miami Sprint Triathlon
Harbin Park CX (cyclocross)
Valley View Nature Preserve CX
I review UROC, the Ultra Race of Champions. Including an interview with finisher Ashley Blake.
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Forever Trails water bottle I mentioned.
With Ashley at the finish
My run in Charleston West Virginia.
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Union soldier
Lincoln
University of Charleston
Course maps
Shirt. SFuels. Medal.
Packet pickup.
Motel at Camp Blue Ridge.
Race morning: Francesca Conte
Anthony Kunkel
Amanda Basham
Michael Wardian
First part of race
Blue Ridge Parkway
Whetstone Ridge Trail
Back near 100K/50K split, around mile 32.
That’s the finish up there, but we won’t approach it from here in the end.
Going right past the eventual finish, around mile 34.
Just past the finish, heading out with 30 miles to go.
Up to Bald Mtn aid station.
Sections of second part of course. More rocks.
Ashley and Tim. Done!
With RD James Gill.
In this episode I review two races I did in April, in Iowa and Kentucky. With interviews. Check it out!
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Relevant links:
Hawkeye 50K & 25K/Hawkeye Fallout/Other races put on by We Run
Here is a video of the Hawkeye 50K course. This is very useful. Note: when this was made, the course started at what is the second aid station encountered on the course.
Hawkeye 50K Pictures
Spillway
The course
Race day weather
Some pics from other races and other times of the year.
Coming up to second aid station.
Crushed gravel in winter.
The dam
Spillway.
Turn left onto the highway.
Lodge at start of race.
Casey O’Connor on the left. RD Brian Tharp on the right.
With RD’s Kris and Brian Tharp
Firefighter Casey O’Connor
Thorsday group
Race Goodies
Hu Hot’s Mongolian Grill. Yummmmm.
Backside Trail Marathon Pictures
The course
Race director Troy Shellhammer
Left to Right: Will Rivera, Cynthia Heady, John Wright
Race Goodies
Mmmm, Five Guys triple
I review the Buzzard Day 50K and the Knoxville Marathon. With interviews! Also I talk about going to the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, TN. And seeing Michael Schenker in Cleveland.
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Relevant links:
Sponsor: Health IQ
Cycling to End Lupus. Please donate to help Keith Rahn.
Run To Share, the charity of Buzzard Day. Please donate.
American Museum of Science and Energy
Love Does, the organization my friend Pat raised money for. Please donate to help the orphanage in Nepal.
Michael Schenker concert at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland.
With bro-in-law Kenny.
Michael Schenker in the spotlight.
Buzzard Day 50K.
 
With Buzzard Day RD Roy Heger.
With local friends Randy Kreill and Helen Garen after the Buzzard Day 50K.
Kimberly Durst, whom I interviewed with RD Roy.
RD Roy, the Ol’ Buzzard. And the shirt and medal.
RIP Vic the Civic, who died on the way home from Buzzard Day.
Knoxville Marathon.
Sunsphere near the start.
With my daughter Tiana at the start, ready to run!
Downtown Knoxville, getting close to the finish.
Tiana crossing the finish line.
With our medals.
Knoxville Marathon goodies.
After the race, in Gatlinburg.
Good food at J. T. Hannah’s.
Next day, at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, TN.
Part of a unit used to separate U-235 from U-238.
Airplane bombsight.
Hair raising demonstration with the Van de Graaff generator.
   
Example of a flat top house built for residents of Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.
Downtown Knoxville.
In a store in Knoxville. I remember these from when I was young.
Pat Farrell and I during his charity run.
Pat’s finish. You can donate to lovedoes.org/nepal.
I review the book “Running Out” and read listener-contributed original stories! Apologies for the lack of editing on this one. Listen at double speed!
Note mistake about location of Running For Tyler 5K on Mar 31. It’s in OHIO, not GEORGIA.
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Running Out, by Dave Essinger
More about author Dave Essinger here. Get his book here.
Poem by Brandi Canann:
I know it seems drastic from your point of view,
I want to eat fresh air and drink that morning dew.
You ask, who is this girl all laced up in her shoes?
Where did she come from, which path will she choose?
You’ll find me deep in the woods, howling up at the moon,
But I promise you babe, I’ll be home soon.
Cause I’m a wild one, with a wild heart,
Please don’t try to tame me, it’ll rip me apart.
I’ll be lost on that trail, reconnecting with me,
But don’t worry love, with you is where I’ll always be.
I’ve just got this urge, and it’s pulling me on.
I need the dirt underfoot, to feel the blaze of the sun.
I want to traipse through the desert like that horse with no name,
Bounding wild and free over rocky and unforgiving terrain.
But at the end of the day, when the journey is through,
Don’t doubt for a second that I’m coming back to you.
I’ve got to push this animal body to its limit, and make myself proud.
I long for that wilderness where I can be primal, uninhibited and wild.
But don’t worry love, because I can promise you this,
When this race is over I’ll greet you with the most tender kiss.
So forgive me if I wander and chase down these dreams,
I know they are lofty, but not as crazy as they now seem.
I’m still just a girl with a wild and open heart,
With a hunger for the pain and the courage to start.
Write up about Bill Kenley’s novel, High School Runner (Freshman)
Screen captures about Tyler Becket (from @CrossProb on Twitter):
There has been a 5K/scholarship created in his name. The first Running for Tyler 5K Run/Walk will be March 31, 2018 in Marietta, OH. (I said GEORGIA in the show. It’s right here in my state of OHIO.)
My daughter and I run in the State Games of Oklahoma. Later, we hear a talk by Camille Herron. Check it out!
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State Games of Oklahoma Trail Run
Red Coyote Running, in Oklahoma City
Pictures
With our medals after the race!
Race stuff
Hopping Gnome Brewery, Wichita, KS
Museum of World Treasures, Wichita, KS
Oklahoma City Zoo
   
Camille Herron’s talk at Red Coyote Running, Oklahoma City, OK
I talk to Jes & Andrew about the Tunnel Hill 100 race in Illinois.
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Website for Tunnel Hill 100 (Look under “Races”)
PIctures
Pre-race with Coree Woltering
Jes and Andrew
Jes and Andrew at the interview
Jes and Sarah
Andrew and Harvey Lewis (he did the 50)
Jes and Andrew with their buckles!
Pictures of the course
Finishing
With RD Steve Durbin
My wife Deb captured Camille Herron’s finish
After race burger!
Race Goodies
Buckle
Finishers Jacket
Cotton hoodie
Bib
Hat and bib belt
Bag with velcro closure
Drawstring bag
My little cheat sheet
I review the Hallucination 100 mile race, one of the Run Woodstock races in Michigan. And I talk to finisher Dan Semsel.
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Pictures.
Before the race.
With my friend Brian.
Someone’s campsite. I think they had a contest for coolest campsite.
Stage area.
After the first loop. At the start/finish.
Wobbly start to the final loop.
With RD Gary at the finish. Thanks Gary and volunteers!!
Dan Semsel, whom I interviewed. Thanks Dan!
Pictures FROM Dan.
I had heard there was a wild pig on the course!
Dan sporting the kilt!
Pre- and post-race goodies.
