Triple Century: Day 1

28 miles, 13 beers. 75 hours and 44 minutes left. Oh, look, it has started to snow.

Conditions for Triple Century: Expect snow. Lots.

So here's the view from the balcony of my condo and the place where I'll be doing most of my beverage consumption for Triple Century which is only 18 hours away! Metro Vancouver has experienced QUITE a bit of snowfall over the past 10 days making travel and training somewhat difficult. The roads are quite slick and my 11km course has an increased degree of difficulty of 2.
I am not looking forward to the next 100 hours, it's gonna be hard enough to run a 100 miles without blowing snow in my face. I may pride myself on being a cold runner, but this is ridiculous. If you squint a little bit, the building behind the three picnic tables houses our fitness area, which has two treadmills. Hmmm.

Western Bound

Yay, I finally got in as a two time loser for Western States...in 2010. So I still have to re-qualify in 2009 and I decided not to do Coyote 2 Moon as I simply cannot afford the entry fee and take vacation time off work. So Tahoe, Leadville, Cascade, and the Hood are all still viable options. I would like to tackle Tahoe again and see if I improve on my 34 hour finish from 2007.

Triple Century is still a go. I bought another 24 pack of PBR. Getting ready to close out 2008 with a bang.

H2H Leg 8: Captain Dave and his Angels

Blame Canada! M'Alice en route to a 36:47 finish, 9/82 in his division!

Coyote2Moon Spring 100?

So I'm looking at possible 100 milers to do next year and I stumbled on the Coyote 2 Moons 100 in Ojai, CA. Here's the quick and dirty stats: 26,000 feet gain and descent, 40 hour cutoff. This could be doable and you get 40 hours to run this! It has possiblities, but I better make my mind up soon...the deadline is November 15th and there are only 59 entries left.

This Week in Training or TWIT

Monday: 100 situps/100 pushups
Tuesday: long intervals with the Den, 8:45/mi pace. Decent effort, made a young guy drop after he was trying to match me on the first 5 laps, but he was done on the 6th. He should've stayed in the slower group. 125 situps
Wednesday: 100 pushups
Thursday: 60 minute night trail run, 125 situps
Friday: Rest
Saturday: Morning, Buntzen Lake/Lakeview Trail run, 2:20. Afternoon, VH3, 1:20
Sunday: 100 situps, 100 pushups

Denied for Western States 2009

Well, I didn't get an e-mail from the RD of Western States 100 confirming I was one of 54 Two Time Losers that were picked from the TTL list to run in the 2009 version. My TTL status will now be rolled over to 2010 or 2011. So I can at least plan what my summer and fall 100 milers are going to be. Yes, you read right, I will be attempting TWO 100 milers in 2009.

Better start saving up and hope the Canadian $ recovers in time.....