Amazing experience running the Arkansas Traveller 100 through the Ouachita National Forest, especially because my dad and brother crewed me and my brother paced me the last 52 miles.
Bib, buckle, and post-race art by Henry. To be fair, finishing under the 30-hour cut-off by over seven hours shouldn’t qualify as “barely.”
6/10: Two-mile family hike to the Flume Gorge, Franconia Notch State Park.
6/11: Seven-mile trail run to Franconia Falls from Lincoln Woods Trailhead.
6/12: Short family hike to the Basin in Franconia Notch State Park in the morning, followed by eight-mile trail run to Mt. Moosilauke’s 4,802′ summit (Gorge Brooke Trail from Ravine Lodge) in the afternoon (2 hours).
6/13: Hike to summit of Mt. Pimigewasset (2,557′) with Henry and Oliver (3.6 miles, 2 hours).
6/14: Seven-mile trail run to Black Pond from Lincoln Woods Trailhead.
Mt. Pemigewasset
The Basin, Franconia Notch State Park
En route to the Flume Gorge, Franconia Notch State Park
Near the Basin, Franconia Notch State Park
From the Franconia Notch parking area off I-93, made the 9-mile loop (counter-clockwise, ascending the steeper waterfall trail first, running along the ridge, and then descending the Greenleaf / Old Bridle Path trail), including a mile or so along the ridge in the alpine zone to Mt. Lafayette’s 5,249′ summit (2 hours, 58 minutes).
Henry and Oliver at the nearby Echo Lake Beach during my run/hike up Mt. Lafayette.
After a nice drive up the mountain, short run/hike along the ridge to the 4,395′ summit (Henry and Dad joining for the first section).
Beginning at 2:45 a.m., paced my brother from mile 50.2 to mile 85.4 during the 2019 Cruel Jewel 100-mile race in the Chattahoochee National Forest of the North Georgia Mountains.
Paced Henry in the Brush Mountain Breakdown 5K, in which he finished 6th overall in 40’40” (after a big pancake breakfast).
Thirty minutes of running back and forth on a strip of grass behind Target in Gainsville, VA, while my family dined at Chick-fil-A, en route to the Delaware coast on the first day of our 2.5-week road trip.
Crewed for my brother as he ran the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile Run, covering the trails of Massanutten Mountain in Virginia’s George Washington National Forest and Shenandoah Valley.
View from the overlook on state road 675 as the clouds began to break after a rainy first half of the race.
The homestretch.
From my front door, one mile up Brush Mountain Rd. through my neighborhood before turning onto Forest Service Road P188-2 (which become Horse Nettle Trail), down Snake Root Trail to Poverty Creek Trail (passing by where we ended our family hike the day before), around the pond and back up the other side of Horse Nettle to the forest service road and then to Brush Mountain Rd. and home. Saw a bear climbing up a tree off of Snake Root Trail.
Mother’s Day hike the day before (5/13/2018), just off Poverty Creek Trail on my usual 10-mile running loop.
Short run in Cloudland Canyon State Park (West Rim Loop Trail and Waterfalls Trail) to break up the drive from Blacksburg to New Orleans.
