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  • How do you top 50 miles in one day?

    52.4 in 2 days. Its been a while since I qualified for Marathon Maniacs by running 3 in 3 months so its about time I graduated to the next level of insane. Running a 50 miler doesn't count because this is a club based around running lots of marathons. But if I can run 50 miles on one day surely 2...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 07-20-2010

  • Recovery

    Yes I know its over a week late... I'm a busy guy. Procrastination takes a lot of effort you know! So what happens after you run a 50 miler? Well right after the race I was moving around well. I got my own food, drink and walked around and stretched just fine. I even made plans for a celebratory...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 04-23-2010

  • What did you do on Sunday?

    Here's what I did: 4:15am - got up 4:20am - got dressed 4:30am - ate a bagel with some bacon 4:45am - drove to Mt Si High School 5:30am - went to the bathroom 5:45am - ate a energy bar and drank some Gatorade 5:50am - went to the bathroom again 6:00am - ran 50 miles in 11 hours 13 minutes and 30...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 04-14-2010

  • 50 mile nerves

    Yesterday I was checking out the website for the 50 mile race I'm running in April. They have a link to the course and while I was looking at it the enormity of the situation started dawning on me. I have to start at 6am which is fairly normal for a race but then I read you have to be done by 5pm...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 02-25-2010

  • Longest (training) run ever

    In terms of distance it was identical to my last 50k almost 2 years ago. In terms of time it was longer. I was running for 6 hours 29 minutes which is the longest I've probably been on my feet ever including hiking. But the really different thing about this 50k was that it was just a training run...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 02-03-2010

  • Sometimes you've got to quit...

    Well those on facebook have probably heard the news but of course I need a proper race report. Saturday was a VERY early start. Up before 4am to arrive at the start line just after 5. I've never run at this park before even in the day light and this race starts with 3 laps in the dark. Once I got...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 11-02-2009

  • Running from Washington to Oregon and ultra training

    Its not as far as it sounds if you start on the edge of one state and run to the other but what makes the Grand Columbia Crossing 10k interesting is that you get the once a year chance to run across the Megler Bridge ( more pictures ). Its an early start as always becuase they have to bus 3000 people...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 10-12-2009

  • Lets play "How far can The ZMan run"?

    Well its 5 weeks until the next crazy race. The Carkeek 12 hour . The premise of the race is simple. How many times can you run round a 1.93 mile loop in 12 hours. I start at 6am in the dark and I end at 6pm also in the dark. Only whole laps count. Just to make it interesting the trail has 430 feet of...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 09-28-2009

  • Singing Jonathan Coulton while you swim across the lake.

    So why would a fairly sane guy do such a thing. Well I could run a 5k every weekend and I'd probably get faster but to be honest I like the variety of trying new things instead. I've swum since I can remember but never was any good at the old freestyle and certainly never good enough to swim...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 08-23-2009

  • New Challenges

    Its official - with my 1st marathon of the year out of the way the resting is over and its time to find some new and interesting challenges. There are so many strange and wonderful races out there. August 2009. Swimming fun. Next week its time to start swimming again but this time I need to build up...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 07-01-2009
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