Traprock 50K 2014

Distance. : 50k
Finish Time : 5:34:09
Pace: 10:45
Rank : #16 (overall)
Lap 1 : 1:33:23
Lap 2 : 1:47:19
Lap 3 : 2:13:26

It was early in the morning when I met Joe Delano in the city to get a ride . The ride  was probably about 2 hours from Manhattan to the race area. And on the way there, we picked up Paul at Hartford, CT. Paul, who’s originally from Ireland but flew in from Mexico where he lived at that moment. Both of them were fast runners, they were in the mission to qualify Boston marathon 2015. We got there pretty early so we had time to set up our drop bag area. The starting line was a couple of hundreds meters from the park main parking lot. Oh the porta-john location was in that main parking lot.

Lets the race begin

Lets the race begin

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2nd Annual Trail Run Field Trip to Katonah: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:38:19

This was the 2nd year I got honored to run with amazing runners from Katonah, to run 2 loops of gnarly trail at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation.

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Photograph by Rob Cummings

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Bear Mountain Love and Hate #3: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 08:59:42

What I love: Perfect temperature perfect running crews
What I hate: I hate that I can not do this everyday.

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This was the 3rd week in a row for me to run at the lovely Bear Mountain. This time we ran on the South-West of the Anthony Wayne parking lot, down to Lake Tiorati and came back up as a full loop 20 mile-ish.

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Blue Mountain Reservation Park: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:46:48

Despite sore and jelly legs, I went up with Joe Delano to Blue Mountain and see what does it offer. It s a pretty small park with a few decent incline yet not really technical, but it is not well marked. I was lucky that I had the feeling to bring my Trail GPS, and it became pretty helpful to find the real track instead of bushwhacking/trail running. In summary, it was a good run. Perfect weather, entertaining trail, a bad ass running partner, and happy legs.

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Bear Mountain Love and Hate #2: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 08:19:48

What I love: It is Bear Mountain, who does not love bear mountain
What I hate: I hate that I can complain nothing.

Photograph by Lovely Stranger

Photograph by Lovely Stranger

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