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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …