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The dream is closer?

Mostly views of Io

Like photos: you should be looking at Boston.com’s”Big Picture“.

One of the photo collections are photos of Jupiter (although most are of the moon Io).

27 hours 20 minutes


Danika cruising at sunset

Danika cruising at sunset, originally uploaded by machaggis.


That’s currently the unofficial time of team 95 (“Ultra Crawlers”) at the Ragnar.

Our team of amateur, we-really-shouldn’t-be-here, Ultra runners cranked home an impressive run.

Here are a few photos (I’ll add to the album later).

Some of my more personal stats:

Hours slept: 3

Leg 1 pace: 7:50 min/mile

Leg 2 pace: 8:00 min/mile

Leg 3 pace: 8:20 min/mile

I do have mostly more accurate stats from a Forerunner 405 I was wearing but it’s mostly undue accuracy and also for Leg 1 the timer didn’t stop ;)

I may post more details, I’m sure D will, but for now, I AM NOW AN ULTRA RUNNER. Ragnar NW 08 is over. And I am going to finish this glass of wine and go to bed.

Update: more photos now in album on flickr.

Ragnar 2008


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It’s that time again…. tomorrow is the Northwest Ragnar.

This year I have convinced D to run it with me! And in a spate of craziness we are also doing the Ultra – twice as much running and half as much support in the car (1 driver, 1 support, 1 runner – in the regular team there are another three folks per van).

I’m a sorry tale of minor ailments, which I’m sure is normal prior to such a major event, so here’s hoping.

Unlike D, this is my first ULTRA-anything running (as in more than 1 marathon’s running, even if its in a relay). I’ll try and post in 29+ miles or so.

(Here are last year’s photos, and the relevant post: “Run. Drive. Sleep. Repeat.”.)

Spikes!

At first, I thought D was taking the piss – who would do this?

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