You may be right. This may be some sort of psychological coping mechanism.

Nice! Which one was that? Are you running Vail HM this year? One of these years I'm going to get out there for Vail.

Today is day one of my 50K training plan. Coincidentally, I think I may have torn some ligaments in my ankle yesterday...while mowing the yard...on a riding mower :shake:

I was just looking this morning and pondering Vail versus a convenient one that's about five miles from my house.

I realized yesterday with the South Park Half Marathon that I'm not in the best shape of my career, and Vail is tougher than yesterday's race. I should do Vail just for that reason, but I've done it enough times that I might just do the convenient race and save some budget to hit a race in another state later in the year.

Hopefully your ankle heals quickly. You must have been shifting gears aggressively.

Have you ever ran the Missoula marathon? It's widely know for being great.

I haven't, but I haven't had an excuse to visit Montana since I started running these. I've run them in 16 states and one foreign country so far, and I'm hoping to knock a few more states off each year.

There's always an excuse to visit Montana.

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Strip clubs and steakhouses?

Thats damn impressive. I only have 4 states to my credit. May get to add Alaska this year though.

In the same establishment? And do they serve freshly baked bread and butter before the entrees?

If anyone's interested, here's a video of the race that I ran last Sunday. I just ran the half-marathon, so I didn't do the BAMF stuff through the snow. The half-marathon topped out a little below 11,000 feet in elevation, and the full marathon went up to 13,000 feet. You'll note that the race director went up and shoveled a path through that one large snow drift.

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The dude in the dreadlocks who shows up around 4:00 won the marathon, and finished about 10 minutes after I finished the half-marathon. (In my defense, the half marathon was over 15 miles and I'm old.) Pretty amazing. He ran a marathon at high altitude up a mountain, and finished in a little over 3.5 hours.

Damn that looks awesome.

I saw this bumper sticker today that made me think of this thread:

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I heard the strippers actually throw you your dinner rolls.

You should come out and do a race with me. And by 'with me', I mean 'way ahead of me'.

My god, what a fantastic concept.