Showing posts with label NST. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NST. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Rhode Island "Sea to Summit" Training Run

On 3/3/13 I joined 6 other runners for the 1st Annual? running of the Rhode Island Sea to Summit Run.  Mike Galoob had mentioned this concept to me a couple of months ago, but when his much anticipated Big River 1/2 Marathon was postponed because of snow, this group run was quickly assembled.  Maps were emailed back and forth until finally Mike came up with the "perfect route" well...the shortest I guess. 

I have always been a big fan of point to point adventure type runs, I have recently run from the Connecticut Border to the Narragansett Beach and have pieced together the NST with multiple 20-30 mile runs.  When you throw in a fun group of runners the run is that much more fun, like last year's Epic Trail Run that Dave Dunham put together.

I got to the meeting spot a bit early and added on about 2.5 miles as I was looking at getting about 50 miles for the weekend, running 20 the day before.  This was my first "big weekend" building up to a summer 100 miler and it went pretty well other then being a bit tired on the last couple of climbs of what would be just over 29 miles of running.  To get a greater feel for the run, check out the below write-ups.  It is a lot easier to post links than to write my own long story.  There are even a few pictures in there!  Enjoy!


Run organizer Mike Galoob's take on the run.

Jonny Hammet's story

Muddy's story

Jeff Walker's story


Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Keeping you in the loop

I haven't updated the blog in a bit so I figured I would add some upcoming events on here.  Since you are looking anyway...

12/15 I have planned a short trek of Rhode Island's North South Trail (NST).  Some of us will be running about 20 miles and others around 10 miles.  As of right now we have 6-8 people that will be joining in on the fun...updates on this will be sent out soon on the event page.

On 12/16 I will team up with a few Turtles to again take on the WTAC at the Old Mountain 5k Trail Race in Wakefield, RI.  This is part of a winter trail series put on by WTAC's Mike Galoob.

As of this Tuesday, we now have a Tuesday Night Turtle Christmas Party planned for 12/21.  TNT Christmas parties are always a fun time with great beer and good food.

Christmas is on a Tuesday this year, so there will no traditional run on Tuesday night, however, every Christmas morning I organize a TNT X-Mas morning run from the Sunday lot, we run 10 miles and then have some coffee and treats in the parking lot.

After that I plan on hitting the roads again and running the Hangover Classic in Bristol, RI.  I have run this every year since 2008. 

That is all I can think of for now!  I plan to put some race results and pictures up as they happen.