Race Captures Hearts, Minds, and Imaginations of the World!

This weekend there were quite a few races in the midwest, but one stands head and shoulders above the rest. It has set itself apart with the level of difficulty and competitiveness of the event. The length combined with the climbing makes this one of the great Icons of sport. Of coures I am talking about the Murphy Off-road Duathalon.

I was lucky enough to gain the blessing from my lovely wife and daughter to attend this event for the second time in my life and once again it did not disappoint. Also I decided once I got there to try out a new running style. Basically it has to do with some over use injuries I have been experiencing and my theory that they aren't being caused by my increasing age to amount on time spent training ratio, but actually due to the establiment telling us that we should run a certain way. So I wanted to go back to the ways our ancient ancestors ran. They didn't have the fancy running stuff that we do. So for this race I spent a lot of time at como zoo watching our true ancestors the monkeys and gorilla's. So for this race I ran in a hunched over flat footed fashion and used both my legs and the knuckles of my hands to propel me forward. And low and behold I won the race for the second time. I didn't win by as much this time as last time, but I am pretty sure it's because second place must have been a high school track star. Now I have a victory as well as carpel tunnel in both hands and several compacted vertebrae to show for the weekend. Maybe our ancestors were able to run like that a lot easier because they were 4 feet tall and weighed 100 pounds. Well nothing to do but keep at it.

Also with this victory I am declaring myself the best. Period.

Also there was a small race in afton some people might have thought was tough this weekend.

Eastwood is in really good shape with lots of trimming having gotten done recently and the new section on the west side open and ready for riding.