Worked at aid station two (around mile 11) at the Golden Gate Dirty Thirty (50k). Before you go gettin' all emotional, it wasn't generated by my altruistic nature. I need
volunteer mandatory hours helping out at a race or working on trails as part of my entry into the Bear 100 (which may not even be on my schedule if Tecnica sends me to
this sucker - a decent chance of it and, of course, would be the highlight of my nomadic, lonely life).
Anywho, working the aid station went by in a flash and then I got in an easy 90 minutes of running on the trail myself. Fun time. Got to chat with Anton, Joe Grant (winner in 4:50), Nick Clark (directed off course while leading, thus adding more fire to belly fire for WS100) and several other folks. Here are some of the images I captured while
standing around eating pretzels working my fingers to the bone for the thankless runners...
Oh, and I've posted some parking photos and commentary over at
timespassenger.blogspot.com
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| Nick Pedatella charging in his iconic Where's Waldo race shirt. |
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| George Zack, "Gimmie the cup, bitch, I'll get my own water!" [the volunteer is actually showing GZ how to use a cooler tap - prissy road runners...] |
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| GZ: "Where's the trail? My Star Trek GPS watch died." Me: "Straight for seven feet, then left." |
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| JT (Brownie): "All this water is diluting the 50% PBR blood volume I'm carrying from last night." |
LMAO. Awesome seeing you out there today man. Thanks for the kind words at ten miles.
ReplyDeleteAnd you could make a whole blog series with photos like these.
I didn't think that JT guy even drank water! That had to screw up his system and slow him down.
ReplyDeleteMandatory-ing is always fun, isn't it! Don't get me wrong I like to help out but making it mandatory is silly (and sad that it's a necessity I guess).
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Very funny post.
ReplyDeleteThose are great pictures too. I think what you really have is a camera with a phone attached to it as an afterthought. Do you use iPhotoUltraComedyBlogger 5.0?
Good time, thanks for the run. That was way better than Saturday AM cartoons.
Agree with G, funny shit. More please. And I do think you're onto something with mr. Clark. What I wanna know is if he's at all pissed that Michael Jordan held him off last year at ws100: how much is that fueling his fire?
ReplyDeleteAnd What's Zeus upto in Alaska? Answer: eating trees and elevationary single-track. Cue soundtrack from The Warriors.
Great Aid Station report!
ReplyDeleteDamn, that stage race looks awesome.
Yeah, I'd sell my grandma to do the TDG. It's really not a stage race; you choose when to rest and for how long, so, if you're good with sleep deprivation, you just gkeep going for 330k... Sick.
ReplyDeleteTim - mandatory or voluntary, thanks for being out there. Always nice to see a friendly face on the run.
ReplyDeleteNo need for any extra fire in this old man's belly. I'm about as ready as I'll ever be. Almost time to roll the dice and see if I can hang with the big boys.
You got some cool-arse sponsors, BTW. The TDG would definitely be a trip to remember. Hope it works out!
Hoping for the TDG to work out Tim - that would most certainly be the trip of a lifetime! We've heard the scenery is so jaw-dropping over there. Nice write up on the aid station slavery. I did not realize you had Timespassenger rolling again - I could have had some real winners from Iowa....
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