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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
What's the brown stuff running down your leg?

With a title like that I know you are going to have to read the whole blog post eh? Saturday was, as it almost always is on race day, an early start. The Seattle Rock and Roll marathon was in town and I had snagged a $45 entry a year ago when they announced the race so since its local it was really a...

Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 06-29-2009
From Couch Potato to Ultramarathoner/Triathlete

Every so often someone from my past discovers my blog or asks me what I'm up to these days. When they discover the running history of the last 4 years most of them don't believe me. I don't blame them. Up until the age of 16 I occasionally did some cross country running and swam a little...

Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 05-01-2009
Ooops... ZMan accidentally enters the London Marathon

Yesterday I was reading how the new Virgin London Marathon site was having trouble handling the volume of people who want to enter the 2010 race. Its no surprise - the 2009 was on Sunday so there's lots of people feeling inspired - many of of which will probably live to regret their enthusiasm and...

Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 04-28-2009

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