Mid day – 10.2 with Bob. Always good to run with Bob. Solve whirled peas and stuff.
News stuff – USATF MUT names their ROY winners. Cool to see the Roache-Deakins pair make that list.
- this is so Skurka (hat tip to JV for this find). And folks think I am number nutty. Really I am way more a shoot by the seat of my pants kind of guy.
- want to check out Canova? He will be local in a conference soon (thanks JT).
- apparently Max finds 100ks on the road to be REALLY BORING.
25 who influence more: so much of the Colorado ultra runner culture has been built around the legend of the guys who check out, live light, run and travel. The original vagabond has to be Rickey Gates.
Results – after struggling at CU to make the XC squad, Rickey does his own thing and finds success – winning the US Mountain Running Championships and US Trail Mountain Championships in the same year (2008). Since then he has blazed a trail in the US, Canada, the freaking SOUTH POLE, and Europe hitting mountain climbs, building climbs, ultras, and road races.
His results only represent part of his story: he took a year to go work and live in Anartica, he road his motor cycle to South America, he has traveled so much it is almost hard to pin him as a Coloradoan as he is probably more a member of planet Earth than any state.
And he is a writer. His stuff is regularly in Trail Runner. While it is not a magazine I subscribe to, it clearly is a platform that influences the thought in the sport.
Always an honor to be mentioned in the GZ Chronicles! You can probably tell where I am traveling to by how many hits you get from weird locations. Also, your former header footer of you and the kids and the donkey was the best picture in the history of the world.
ReplyDeleteDavid - amazing year for you and Megan, and that would be true even if you took all the racing accomplishments out of it. In light of your comment on the pic - I put it back up.
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