My blog is just getting blown out of the water as the Hawk gets nearer. Tons of stuff to report — but no time. When I do have a minute, am too tired!
Didn’t do the Monday nighter tonight because I stayed home to work on a job list for the race to give to Coleen, our volunteer coordinator. Weather was crappy so no one else went out either, except Norman “Whippersnapper Hawk” Decelles, who was out for the Monday nighter for the first time –and no one showed. Doh!
Mike Goodwin and I put in a new short trail section on blue Saturday afternoon, to replace the part along the eroding bank of the lake about a quarter mile out from th Corps of Engineers trail head. Didn’t think to get a photo. Doh!
Saturday morning, ran with Hawks and Hawk 50 & Marathon entrants for course preview. Paula Keltner, a 50-mile took a bad fall and I and another runner, Chris Nicely, got her out and back to her car. managed to get about 20 miles in anyway, and see most of the course. It’s in pretty good shape. Got a few photos from the run, but don’t have time to post them right now — just stealing a minute or two to write this.
Thursday, Art King of the Lawrence Mountain Bike Club came out to the course with his brush mowers, to help me mow the Bunker Hill section. I mowed, it turned out, the wrong path. Mike Goodwin came out Friday and mowed the correct route.
Had to run out to the back yard just now and drag Lambchop into the house, away from a poor little possum she and Sophie had gotten. Karen got Sophie in, but couldn’t get Lambchop.
Followed Danny Miller’s exploits this past weekend as much as I could. He went up to Pittsfield, Vermont to run in the McNaughton 200 miler. Didn’t finish — hardly anyone did — because of horrible weather. Made more than 100 miles, though. Greg Burger crewed and paced. Danny’s girlfriend Erin was there crewing too.
My “Lost Runner” story about 3 Days of Syllamo got published in Ultrarunning Magazine May/June issue, but I haven’t seen it yet. Don’t know how it was edited. Sometimes they edit me pretty drastically. Tia Bodington sent me a nice note about it, though, so maybe I got off light this time.
12 days to the Hawk. I know there’s things I’m forgetting to do. 55 runners so far, but haven’t had any entrants in several days. 55 is not as good as I hoped, but better than expected. I have a good crew put together to put the thing on… if the weather cooperates, it’ll be a gem of a race. If not…well, we’ll do what we can.
more later,
gary