Gotta be in it to win it!

Guess where I am heading in October? St George Utah! A good friend of mine is running his first marathon (with his brother) and has decided to try for the St George Marathon in Utah, and I’ll be pacing him.

The marathon is super popular as it has a net elevation loss of 2500’ and is used a Boston Qualifier, neither of us are looking to run it that fast, for me it's three weeks after AC100, but we are looking for a solid finish and running through all that red rock scenery needs to be done at a relaxing pace to enjoy the scenery, right!

There’s a lottery entry required but we can enter as a group so like the three musketeers all for one and one for all! Fingers crossed!

Meet Serge & Nicole

This is Serge and Nicole Roetheli, in February 2000 they left their home in Switzerland to embark on a journey that I cannot even begin to comprehend; to run around the world!

Running the equivalent of a marathon every other day, Serge runs, over 25,400 miles in five years, while his wife Nicole rides her Yamaha motorcycle. Using their personal camera they captured the footage used in this film. Excerpts from Nicole’s personal diary reveal their experiences, adventures and accomplishments throughout their journey together and have resulted in the creation of this movie; "Beyond the Epic Run".

They traveled through 37 counties on six continents. Risking everything for this experience. It’s an amazing story of an athlete and his loving wife’s physical and mental strength.

The movie can be seen in selected cities check the website for more info, I will have a DVD giveaway for this soon so stay tuned. Here's the trailer and and an interview with Dean Karnazes talking about it. There are several more videos available at YouTube.

PCTR Sycamore Canyon 50K Redux

Something for your long run this weekend?

This week has been spent, packing, packing and packing, my goodness we’ve accumulated a load of crap! Hence the lack of posts!

So to be a lazy blogger and at least post something in a week here you go…as you might know I have embarked on a little side departure with the Quadrathon Podcast. The last episode was recorded entirely while running the PCTR Sycamore Canyon 50k last weekend.

As you are probably aware my expectations for the race were to treat it as a long supported run and finish feeling good both physically and mentally; it was my penultimate long run before I start my taper for Leona Divide which is on April 21st.

Chances are you know the outcome but if you would like a little more of an insight into race day it might make for an interesting listen.

Enjoy…

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