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Reaching the Beach, again
Sep. 22nd, 2021 08:09 pmLast weekend I ran Reach the Beach for the third time (2019, 2015). As usual, it was super fun and I got very little sleep!
( bla bla and photos )
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Beach, reached!
Oct. 22nd, 2019 09:03 pmI am back from Spain and sloooowly putting together a trip report. But, as you may have forgotten, my vacation actually began with a trip to New Hampshire for the purposes of running across (much of) it, so I want to put down a few things about that, mostly for my own purposes (but you can read, too). Also some photos, taken by my teammates (mostly by David Sheehan).
( Whee! )
( Whee! )
belated update
Sep. 11th, 2019 11:27 amI have been intending to make a new house post, but lost my Round Tuit, as they say. But: the landscaping is done, and the furniture's in place, and most of our artwork is on the walls. We are still waiting to get back some of the artifacts that were discovered during our pre-construction archaeological survey, so we can display them in the niches in our rock wall; we have put some of our other treasures in those spots for now, but we will need to have glass display shelves made for those niches. I don't have time (see below) to take photos and make a nice fancy post, but have a picture from yesterday morning:
Anyway, the reason I'm posting now is because I'm heading to the airport Real Soon Now. First I'm off to Boston, and thence in a van to New Hampshire, for the Reach the Beach relay with a team of mostly internet-friends. (I ran this race once before, in 2015, with the same team.) On Sunday I'm flying down to Virginia to spend the week with my parents, now in assisted living, and help my brother prepare their house for sale. Britt will join us on Friday night, and on Saturday morning...we are off to Barcelona for three weeks! We have not been on a proper vacation in some time because of the whole home-building and moving thing, so we are hoping it will be an enjoyable and relaxing get-away.
We've got Google Fi so I won't be completely cut off from the internet, but I will likely not be posting here (because typing on a phone is ugh) or reading my flists (because busy). I may be posting photos on Instagram (because it's easy): https://www.instagram.com/heyheyilana/ I may not be! In any event, see you (for, you know, social media values of 'see') in October.
Anyway, the reason I'm posting now is because I'm heading to the airport Real Soon Now. First I'm off to Boston, and thence in a van to New Hampshire, for the Reach the Beach relay with a team of mostly internet-friends. (I ran this race once before, in 2015, with the same team.) On Sunday I'm flying down to Virginia to spend the week with my parents, now in assisted living, and help my brother prepare their house for sale. Britt will join us on Friday night, and on Saturday morning...we are off to Barcelona for three weeks! We have not been on a proper vacation in some time because of the whole home-building and moving thing, so we are hoping it will be an enjoyable and relaxing get-away.
We've got Google Fi so I won't be completely cut off from the internet, but I will likely not be posting here (because typing on a phone is ugh) or reading my flists (because busy). I may be posting photos on Instagram (because it's easy): https://www.instagram.com/heyheyilana/ I may not be! In any event, see you (for, you know, social media values of 'see') in October.
This past weekend (well, Friday and Saturday) I participated in my very first long-distance overnight team relay. These races have become quite popular, and now there is one nearly every week in a different part of the US. I was invited to join a group of friends from an online running forum (some who I'd met in person before, most of whom I hadn't) to run Reach the Beach, a 201-mile relay across New Hampshire from Bretton Woods ski resort to Hampton Beach.
( Race report, and a (very) few photos )
Overall, this was a great experience, though I can't see myself doing this kind of race multiple times a year, like some of the people on our team. I'm not a fan of sleep deprivation, and the busy roads of this race course were not that pleasant to run on. The team aspect was a lot of fun, though sometimes my introverted side just wanted more quiet alone time than I could get in a van with five other rowdy people. The race organization was fantastic, and the van organization was fantastic as well - I have to say, it was definitely a plus that I was doing it with a team that had the logistics pretty well wired. And it surprised me that I was able to run pretty darn hard (for me) under these tough conditions. In conclusion:
( Race report, and a (very) few photos )
Overall, this was a great experience, though I can't see myself doing this kind of race multiple times a year, like some of the people on our team. I'm not a fan of sleep deprivation, and the busy roads of this race course were not that pleasant to run on. The team aspect was a lot of fun, though sometimes my introverted side just wanted more quiet alone time than I could get in a van with five other rowdy people. The race organization was fantastic, and the van organization was fantastic as well - I have to say, it was definitely a plus that I was doing it with a team that had the logistics pretty well wired. And it surprised me that I was able to run pretty darn hard (for me) under these tough conditions. In conclusion:
