February 18, 2108

I will write in my blog every Sunday evening. So those who want to read about my great, wonderful, magnificent, daring, challenging
journeys. Yes, Rita and Kim I will write in my blog every week!
         
Continued information concerning the 85 mile run on Nov. 14-15, 2017.  I finished in 35 hours and 35 minutes.

                                                 

At 8:30 am I was ready to go. I stopped at Philip's to say that I was raring to go! I went out to the RV and began to gather up the necessary things I would need for the journey.
I had driven the RV across the road from the driveway. This was so that I could just step off of the road and step into the RV for my aid that I would need for the 85 mile run.

You can see how close to the road I parked the RV. That handsome man is my son Philip who was going to run my 3rd leg. 20 to 30 miles with me. No wasted energy to get the aid I needed.

Shirley was my aid person plus anyone else who would help her. Bless her heart, she got just about 1.5 hours of sleep during the 35.5 hours of my journey. She prepared hot drinks and soup plus fried egg sandwiches.

During my time on the course I ate fig bars and dates. Plus drinking NUUN which is a drink potion that restores the electrolytes that are depleted during the run.

This is some of the food that I collected for the aid I would need for the run. I also had perishable foods in the fridge.

As I said that I was eager to start. I had my camelback filled with water and the snacks that I would eat on the first 10 miles of the 85 mile goal. My helpers were more interested in taking pictures than getting me started.

I was getting my gloves on and was starting. My daughter Kim was still taking pictures when it was 9:00 am and I was READY. 

So I just started out by myself. But Dick soon caught up with me and the 85 miles effort was started.

We had gone about 5 miles when my friend Steve came out on the course and said he would run with me for a while. Dick said that he was going back to the start and ride a bike out and meet us as we finished the first 10 miles.

We did not get a picture of Steve so I took one out of the Sequim Gazette, Mike the editor of the paper came out at about 11:00 am and took this picture for the paper. This part of the run went by in  3 hours and 40 minutes. A good pace to keep up for a 30 hour adventure.

Kim, my daughter was to run with me on the second  leg to 20 miles. Dick rode on to the stop and told Kim to get ready because we were coming in to get aid.

This is the course for the 85 miles that I ran. The total miles from start to finish is 10 miles. Each smaller loop was done twice.

I started the second 10 mile circle in the  clock wise rotation. The weather was still holding about the same temperature for this portion of the run. 

I stopped at the aid station just long enough to eat an egg sandwich and fill my camel back with water. Kim, my daughter then joined me to run the next 10 to 20 miles with me.