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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

  • The next big running goal

    The lack of blog posts tell you 2 things: I'm busy catching up on work from having too many conferences in one month There's been no races to write witty little reports on As I said I am taking things pretty easy this year after running 4 marathons and an ultra last year. I ran part of a 3 hour...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 04-22-2009

  • Ultraman

    It used to be that running a marathon was a big deal - until Oprah ran one ! Now every man and his dog, and his cat, and his parrot and his pet stick insect has run a marathon. So how can you possibly stand out from the crowd? Run an ultramarathon ! Yes my dearest family and friends you can now say you...
    Posted to Zman's Diary (Weblog) by zman on 04-14-2008
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