This year's racing season is hardly started but we have a few runners testing their early season form this weekend. Mark Lundblad, our 'Director Sportif', is hoping the epic weather will pass by Saturday before the start of his Uwharrie 40 mile trail race, in central NC. He got shut out of his last ultra attempt because of bad weather. Lets hope this one brings better luck. Also on Saturday, Yassine Diboun will be on the left coast's beautiful San Juan Islands competing in the Orcas Island 50k. I've been there and it would be an awesome venue for an all day run!
Sunday's lineup has Chris Reed burning off pre-football party calories at the Superbowl 10k road race in PA. And, Amber Moran is taking it across the pond to mix it up with the Brits at the Chichester 10k in England. Good luck everyone!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
This Weekend's Starting Line
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It was a wet and muddy day at Uwharrie but a great course and very well directed considering all the local flooding. The decision was made to run the trail through 15 miles, then we had to take a gravel road the last 5 miles to the turnaround instead of the trail as some of the creek crossings were deemed too high on that section. The new course was thus faster than if we had stayed on the trail. The actual race weather was nice just sloppy footing. I'm grateful to have won and my thanks go out to the many gracious volunteers who helped out yesterday.
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