An email sent to the race organizers of today’s marathon (no photos will be posted today because why bother?): Dear REVEL, This morning was a mess. You know already know this with buses arriving late and the frazzled fiasco of a marginally delayed start time doing little to alleviate the stress and headaches for those […]
Sigh. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The race directors were good enough to send me a discount code as a 50 State Marathon Club Member… but sadly after countless minutes pondering what best to hav eon my bib (I settled on 2 Kevin 2 Run), I apparently had […]
There is no Day 3 for me. I did not start. I did not finish. I did not complete the Tahoe Triple Marathon challenge. I started this trip wracked with fear. But fear has an expiration date – eventually fear gives way to what we dreaded would happen or subsides when it doesn’t. But failure? […]
I barely finished before the cutoff time here on Day 2. Right now I do not think there will be a day 3. I’m struggling with a head cold. My quads are shredded and the attempts today to run more than a minute at a time proved beyond painful. The thought of doing another 26.2 […]
Altitude. It affects my attitude. “Lake Level” is NOT the same thing as “sea level.” And so it was that the climb up from approximately 6300 feet at the start to the 7000 foot summit for the halfway mark took a toll on my breathing, as much as the lingering long cold I seem to […]
Oh, good. It’s going to be warmer temperatures tomorrow, starting at 38 degrees… And having driven down here from Reno, I can confirm the first 13 miles of tomorrow’s race are ALL uphill… At least it’s downhill from there.
Fear. That’s what I’m feeling the most at the moment. Pure, all-consuming, debilitating, paralyzing fear. And all because of a couple of days of running. If I were an organized religion fan, I’d see this post as a confessional, a means to unburden my soul and be cleansed by some supposed expert/anointed designee capable of […]
The search for intelligent life must continue. I want to believe that I wasn’t a fool for the last minute decision to return to the Little A’Le’Inn Hotel/Bar/Restaurant/Tourist Trap. But having driven out Saturday afternoon to catch the 2.5 hour bus ride to Rachel, NV, for the midnight race, I have to believe we have […]
“Kevin Hanna, 46, from Orlando, right?” The woman checking me in at the crack of dawn remembered me from previous events. Not a lot of us “snowbirds” from Florida making the trek to Emma Woods campground in Ventura on the semi-regular. I remembered her as well – a lovely person who was caught in the […]
Time check: 5:07 PM Pacific. It’s just over 16 hours since I left my apartment to drive to Nevada and run a marathon in Lovell Canyon. I drove, I ran, I drove home. I’m exhausted. So there will be no witty commentary, no discussion, no recap of the toll it all took. Just some photos […]