August 2010

Ode to Race Directors

by vince August 30, 2010 Monumental Efforts

    Our tenure as Race Directors has come to a close,So I thought I’d pay tribute with some poetic prose.For nearly a decade we have organized the Iroquoia Trail Test,With these duties behind us, it’s time for a well-deserved rest. If you’ve ever staged a run, you can appreciate the work requiredTo get every [...]

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Endurrun 2010: Team Monumental Effort

by Bill August 19, 2010 Monumental Efforts

15 years ago, in a drunken fog I made a bet that I’d run a marathon before my 40th birthday. In September of 2010, I turn 40.  I hadn’t forgotten my bet.  I’d began running a little in 2009 and managed to complete a 25K trail race and several shorter distances.  But the marathon eluded [...]

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The Yukon River Trail Marathon

by vince August 12, 2010 Places

“There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold.” The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service Seeing as my wife was travelling to India to visit her daughter, I decided to find a [...]

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