(I just realized I never cross-posted our race report from Swimrun NC here, so.. now I have!)

We're officially in swimrun off-season, which.. doesn't seem to have really changed our schedule in Training Peaks all that much. Still running, still swimming, but maybe doing less quality? Though some longer swims, too, which is kinda fun.

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Hooboy. I kinda just want to skip the 2020 year in review, but I know I'd be disappointed in myself in the future, that I didn't write anything.

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Long story short: running has not been going well lately, and this race did not either.

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Kudos to Thundercloud for announcing very early on that they were changing the 2020 turkey trot to a virtual race. I realize with so many thousands of participants, there was a 0% chance they could modify it or get approval to hold it in person, but still, it was a nice relief knowing so early that it wasn't going to happen, and not having to ( Read more... )

Another race report! Another race!

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Normally I'd start with how this came about, but.. man, that was 4 months ago, in the middle of the throes of a pandemic. How could I possibly remember?

At some point near the end of April, Lazarus Lake, infamous race director for such insane races as the Barkley Marathons and Big's Backyard Marathon, put forth the idea of a virtual race across ( Read more... )

I've done a few dumb things so far this pandemic. The Yeti 5x4x24 challenge. The Mirage 50k. But both of those things were virtual races. I paid money, I got a shirt, it was a "race".

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