Training is a process, not the events of one day…

 

April 2018 update:  Weeks & weeks of training, everything built around my goal race in June (distance over speed)  – & finally, a glimmer of hope (Ohio PROUD).  No headset, 3 marathons/month, multiple double-digits runs/week.  60 DAYS ‘til Bighorn!

 

Milestones:

• March 21st – 43rd Marine Corp Marathon, lottery SUCCESS (race date: October 28th – Semper Fi!)
• March 31st – first trail run of 2018: Naked Prussian Trail Marathon (Leesport PA)
• April 8th – Maratona de São Paulo, BRAZIL: my FOURTH continent (both Americas, Europe & Australia)

 

May MANTRA:  Stay CALM – it’s a journey, not a Sprint

March 30th (Leesport PA) thru May 6th (Holyoke MA), my first 6-week marathon stretch since 2015 💪

6 marathons, 5 different states, 2 continents.  In it to win it.  Will finish 30+ marathons in 2018, 5 of those ultra distances.

 

Race ReCap:  4 weeks, 4 marathons (115 total); long-distance East Coast & Int’l travel: Tobacco Road Marathon (Cary NC), Naked Prussian Trail Marathon (Leesport PA), Maratona de São Paulo (BRAZIL) & Athens Marathon (Ohio).

Marathoning Streak:  53 months

Mileage ReCap:  ended April at 731 miles (10.7 miles ahead of GOAL)

 

 

Lands End to John O’Groats

1083 miles, the length of Britain

GOAL: 15 June 2018

 

Ended Month 4 in Westerkirk, a parish in the district of Eskdale, county Dumfries, Scotland.

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868):

 

“…10 miles in length from S. to N., with an extreme breadth of 6½ miles. The surface is generally hilly and mountainous, abounding in sheepwalks. The predominant rocks are graywacke and graywacke-slate, with shell marl at Megdale, and antimony at Jamestown. In the vicinity are ruins of Westerhall and Glendonwyn or Glendenning towers, with some remains of Crooks and Enzieholm towers, besides several hill forts and burians or “picts” houses, and Druidical circle and several ancient camps. The village is about 5 miles N.W. of Langholm, and stands at the confluence of the rivers Meggot and Stennis with the Esk, and on the road from Langholm to Ettrick and Selkirk. The parish formerly belonged to the Glendonwyns, and contained Eskdalemuir till 1703. The parish is in the presbytery of Langholm and synod of Dumfries. The stipend of the minister is about £153. The parish church was erected in 1788, and the churchyard contains the mausoleum of the Johnstone family.“