Minnesota Sunday Morning Pondering
It's just a couple of minutes after 6 a.m. here in Eagan, Minnesota, the home of coming-out-of-bankruptcy Northwest Airlines.
This is one of these mornings that I say to myself, "Why am I doing this when I could just as easily sleep all morning?" Perhaps you can tell me!
Surprisingly, I feel pretty good physically as I get ready to do half marathonon back-to-back days for only the second time ever and the first time since April 30-May 1 in Des Moines, Iowa and Lincoln, Nebraska.
I started to thinking this morning if there was a "50 States Triathlon Club." (I honestly don't think so because not every state has an Ironman.)
That led me to wonder if there was somebody that was going around checking off Ford Ironmans around the world. I'm sure that there has to be somebody that is.
I do believe reading in an issue of Runner Triathlete News within the past year that Houston's Yen Nguyen finished an ultramarathon in all 50 states.
As we were in the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and walking away from the gate, Lou Wilson, Tony Allison and myself were talking about back-to-backs and that Tony said that he did back-to-back marathons once and Lou said he did as well and would never again!
But Tony talked about Bill Dwyer commenting to him once - as Bill had done 50- and 100-milers back in a day - that back-to-back marathons was just a 50-miler with an extra long break in between!
That's why I get along with Bill so well as he so very well puts a positive light on anything!
This is one of these mornings that I say to myself, "Why am I doing this when I could just as easily sleep all morning?" Perhaps you can tell me!
Surprisingly, I feel pretty good physically as I get ready to do half marathonon back-to-back days for only the second time ever and the first time since April 30-May 1 in Des Moines, Iowa and Lincoln, Nebraska.
I started to thinking this morning if there was a "50 States Triathlon Club." (I honestly don't think so because not every state has an Ironman.)
That led me to wonder if there was somebody that was going around checking off Ford Ironmans around the world. I'm sure that there has to be somebody that is.
I do believe reading in an issue of Runner Triathlete News within the past year that Houston's Yen Nguyen finished an ultramarathon in all 50 states.
As we were in the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and walking away from the gate, Lou Wilson, Tony Allison and myself were talking about back-to-backs and that Tony said that he did back-to-back marathons once and Lou said he did as well and would never again!
But Tony talked about Bill Dwyer commenting to him once - as Bill had done 50- and 100-milers back in a day - that back-to-back marathons was just a 50-miler with an extra long break in between!
That's why I get along with Bill so well as he so very well puts a positive light on anything!
posted by WalkSports.com | 6:10 AM
2 Comments:
Every state may not have an Ironman, but I'll bet every state has at least 1 sprint triathlon...
Why sleep in? Life's too short. You can sleep as much as you want when you're in your coffin. (I went to a funeral yesterday...got up early this morning to go on my 7 and half miler)
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