Holyoke

Tray's bummed cuz she missed 50 minutes by about 5 seconds. She bettered last year's time by something like 45 seconds. Brent predicted he'd do 49 and change. Brent did 48 and high change. I took 53 and high change. This course is basically one long giant unforgiving forever lasting sort of gradual but up, more up, more up ... it then tops off and gives you an awesome about 2 miles of screaming down where you can get back a lot of the time you lost in the first 3+. Zero food at the end. Water in good supply. Oh, did I mention there were almost 6000 finishers? The start was a study in sardines. Brent put himself at the 8 minute "corral." Tray and I slipped literally thru the fence and were in the 7 minute corral. I almost got clocked by a couple of crazies at the beginning but have learned to be *real* careful in the first few minutes so no problems.

http://racewire.com/live_results.php?id=2686

Good luck to everybody!

May Sri and Mike do well at their half in New Bedford on Sunday, Tray, Brent and yours truly do well in Holyoke tomorrow and all other Brickyarders do well at whatever they've got going this weekend.

Holy Moly!

Brent described the course in words. Here's the elevation map. Tray, Brent, Lee, I think Mike are doing the Holyoke 10K at 1 PM this Saturday. This is the 38th annual and it's huge. Game?

Call to Burlington!

At 4:15 PM today Mike Taricani reports ...

Roads are good. A few areas will have large piles on the sides of the street but traffic will be light. We'll do the 9 mile loop twice. The map on the blog is 7 miles but I'm adding a street to make it 9 miles.  Let's start at 7 AM sharp. My address is 81 Stagecoach Road on the south side of Burlington.  Just 3 miles from Rt 6 if anyone knows the area. Park in the circle.

From his log post a few days back ...

Saturday 18 mile run---I have a 9 mile loop planned that we can do twice. It has one major hill between mile 4-5. Easy country roads and somewhat scenic. It will be an extended version of this route below. Check the Garmin link:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/280671330
 

Where in the world is in design mode

As the subject says, Where in the world is in design mode. Encouraged by Stratton, Vroeginday, Bradley and countless others, a possibly hilly, circuitous pre-ultra training run is being cooked up and, weather willing, will be executed Saturday morning starting at the prime hour 7 AM. Mr Mike has been promising / hinting / threatening / etcetering such an adventure for months and it appears it *will* take place. So ... look for a roughly (and we mean *roughly* as in not easy) 18 mile romp thru the hills of Burlington, CT coming soon to this blog and this awesome group of runners / friends Thursday / Friday evening.

Re: [Brickyarders] Call to Brickyard!

I will be at Simsbury/Iron Horse tomorrow. I will get there early for a few extra miles then at 7:00am start another 10+ depending on my departure around 9:30. I can't wait to be part of this run/walk/tip-toe/stumblel/limp/hop on 1 foot routine Tracy has planned. 

Mike

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Team Primal Force <teamprimalforce@gmail.com> wrote:

Well ... lets's see. Looks like Simsbury's a go for tomorrow @ 7 AM. (That of course would be Iron Horse 1/2 area). 've heard everything from 10 to 23 (and you know who's 23). Tray's been promoting a run / walk pre-ultra workout for all of us who're (now there's an unfortunate contraction ...) doing one. Lea's list of grant writing, x-fitting, state hopping etc etc will keep her away for I've-lost-count weeks. Barbara has not "reported in" on Brickyard (im)passability but we look forward to seeing her and Dave for a loop tomorrow if they can make it. Mr. Brent's talking taking yoga classes with Linda and my friend Virginia but we are sure he won't miss us in Simsbury ... downward dog is good ... upward jog is gooder. Anybody else who can make it ... see you there!

Lee



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Michael C. Taricani

Burlington, CT
Cell: 1-860-630-0260

Call to Brickyard!

Well ... lets's see. Looks like Simsbury's a go for tomorrow @ 7 AM. (That of course would be Iron Horse 1/2 area). 've heard everything from 10 to 23 (and you know who's 23). Tray's been promoting a run / walk pre-ultra workout for all of us who're (now there's an unfortunate contraction ...) doing one. Lea's list of grant writing, x-fitting, state hopping etc etc will keep her away for I've-lost-count weeks. Barbara has not "reported in" on Brickyard (im)passability but we look forward to seeing her and Dave for a loop tomorrow if they can make it. Mr. Brent's talking taking yoga classes with Linda and my friend Virginia but we are sure he won't miss us in Simsbury ... downward dog is good ... upward jog is gooder. Anybody else who can make it ... see you there!

Lee