Ray interviewed by WDBJ reporter Christian Heilman After running 5+ extra miles in Day 5, today was only 14 miles. Today was a beautiful, more relaxed run across the Roanoke Valley that included crossing the Roanoke River (Beautiful!), an interview with WDBJ to be aired beginning Monday morning, and an end on Roanoke/Mill Mountain. Day Read More …
Month: May 2016
RWR Day 5 – “In the Long Run”
Key words for Day 5 were: flexibility, patience, and gratitude. Note: Again today, the blog post must be abbreviated. It’s been a long day! Day 5 Run Today’s run was interesting. I started in fog and drizzle. The sun finally broke through in the afternoon. The run started north of Peaks of Otter between Mileposts 80 Read More …
RWR Day 4 – Survived
The Climb was every bit as tough as I thought it would be. How do you take on a task that is too large? Carve it up into little pieces and be patient. Note: This will be an abbreviated blog because of a slow internet connection tonight. I’ll edit it this weekend with more information. Read More …
RWR Day 3 – Birdied the Easiest Hole
An important mantra in Golf is to “take what the course gives you.” That means don’t make a easy hole hard by trying to do too much. Today, may be the easiest day of running on the entire Blue Ridge Parkway, and I birdied it. Day 3 Run The day started in ridiculous fog but ended Read More …
RWR Day 2 – No Heroics
Today’s run (milepost 20 to milepost 40) featured cool temperatures, fog, and the longest, steepest downhill I have ever seen. Day 2 Run The details of today’s run can be found at https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1173918623. I went from Milepost 20 to Milepost 40 even though the running watch measured it as 19.88 miles. I faced two significant uphill Read More …
RWR Day 1
Fog, cool temperatures, drizzle, and showers dominated the day, but weather could not keep us from having a great day. Day 1 Run David Still started with me a ran a couple miles. The full 20-mile route was pretty tough, 3380 total elevation gain according to the google map. Here’s a link to what I did: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1172519488. Read More …
At the Post
Mile Post 0 The horses are in the gate and ready to run! We arrived in Waynesboro, VA, at the Best Western Waynesboro Inn and Suites this evening in time to survey tomorrow’s first leg of Relay with Ray. Maybe I should not have looked. Here’s look at the Day 1 Run. The weather won’t Read More …
Moses Cone Trails
Saturday morning, as a last longer run before heading to Milepost 0, I ran my favorite 10-miler around Moses Cone Estates. 27 miles of Carriage Trails form a network on the property. The Run Ray at Cone Manor Estate overlooking Bass Lake. Here are edited results from my running watch including a map of the Read More …
RWR Daily Routine
The most frequent question of late is “How are you going to do this?”Plan but FlexThe most important feature of the plan is “be flexible”. We have a template for how we expect each day to flow; however, we know that “things will happen”–weather, how I feel on a given day, and a world of potential Read More …
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
My favorite place in the world to run is the Moses Cone Park Carriage Trails–over 25 miles on soft, relatively smooth trails with lakes, forests, streams, views, and varied terrain. You know what else I like? Having restroom facilities at Bass Lake where I typically start and end runs. Someone had to pay for those facilities–The Blue Read More …