If you stay in Beaumont, don’t choose Econolodge. Closed. First hand info.
If you run in Beaumont, signup with Mainly Marathons. The Minnesota brothers who run these events provide a sweet self-crew area & post a ‘no runner left behind’ motto.
Fast runners, slow runners, old, young. Closest thing you’ll find to a running cult.
Get to the Start, get to the Finish. Drive, hotel, shower, repeat — that’s a Mainly Series.
Run, walk, conserve, endure. 14 laps in Beaumont, a whopping 26 in Louisiana. Blowing out a fast 50K with the locals, won’t serve me 11 days later. Steady, consistent. TIME ON FEET. 100-mile goal race in September — Mainly is part of the solution. Breaking down the impossible 100 into smaller mental chunks. HUGE!
Day One. Ran 16 miles, walked 16 miles. Two-hour drive to Jennings, Louisiana. Crayfish enchiladas. Sleeps — and it happens again.
Day Two. Re-wake the legs, eat/drink, consistent steady intake of calories. Lap, lap, lap, lap. 32 miles more, a 2nd 50K finish — and the Gator Chateau. Sure, it was small — but holding a live gator isn’t something I’m gonna experience in the Rockies 🙂
One day at a time.
Break it down. One ‘run’ day is 7 hours. Those 7 hours are 14 laps. 2 walk, 6 run, 4 walk, 2 run. Each lap you gather a rubber band, electrolyte refuel & move forward. And that lap, an out-n-back. To the red cone & return.
Tick, tick, tick. Red cone, return. Red cone, return. Like a running metronome.
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- Quinn Soccer Complex
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- Loony LEGENDS
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- no Haga, no Bueno
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- crawfish enchiladas
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- Oil & Gas Park
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- Gator Chateau
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- GATOR 🐊
Beaumont TX & Jennings LA
March 15th, Corporate Tax Return due.
Pencil down. Task complete. Next chapter awaits.
12 years CFO-defined, but not the next 12 months 😊
Biggest snow of season delayed my flight 4 hours — just past midnite, touchdown.
Rental pick-up. Hotel check-in. It all begins Monday in Beaumont. Driving Texas to West Virginia. Registered for back-to-back Mainly Marathon series, Gulf Coast & Appalachia.
11 days, 11 states, 11 marathons. Well… that was the plan.
How ’bout 50k? Every day.
Brother that’s a lotta miles. Google the math.
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
11-day RUN Adventure
Life accelerated. 7 days since departing Antarctica, back at D.I.A (Denver Int’l). Fast become my home-from-home this year. TWELVE, that’s the 2020 marathon count 😊
Louisiana’s Big Easy. Mentally plugged in; awesome part of America to kick-off a post-Antarctica run. Heavy accented & redneck. Dig the South. Childhood, my people.
Big PARTY town, New Orleans. the Land of Mardi Gras. Conversation starter with every Lyft driver (no rental this journey). Big letdown, dude’s a marathoner. LOL>
first stop: NOLA Convention Center. Bib pickup, registration. Rock n Roll EXPO.
Quick walk-thru the Brooks tent (I’m a shoe junkie). Small bowl of red beans-n-rice (another addiction). Lyft transport back over the Bridge. Couple blocks off the French Quarter. Sleeps shouting-distance from tomorrow’s Start. Location, location, location.
Sidewalk tour of Hurricane Katrina history. Café du Monde beignets. Bag of soulful fried chicken take-out. Headache, chilled. Early night. Physically off this trip. Touch of fever, then couple hours I’m fine again. Marathon/flight/hotel all prepaid, so… I’m here.
Sunday alarm. FEVER. Showered. Race dressed. I can do this. Could hear muffled announcements thru a closed window. Twenty minutes more. It’ll pass. Fever-finished Charleston last month. Don’t PANIC. No rule against race-starting a later Corral.
10 minutes. Not happening. Not my day.
Rock ‘n Roll DNS. Crazy disappointing, big Easy FAIL.
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- Feed Your Soul
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- Café du Monde beignets
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- ‘Scrap House’ Memorial
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- Hurricane Katrina
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- Rock ‘n Roll NOLA
Rock ‘n Roll EXPO
