Comments on: Running Through the Wall http://www.monumentaleffort.com/running-through-the-wall Do more than live Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:51:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: vince http://www.monumentaleffort.com/running-through-the-wall/comment-page-1#comment-93 vince Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:17:29 +0000 http://www.monumentaleffort.com/?p=728#comment-93 Hey Dean, All of Monica's races on that list are 100-milers except Badwater which is 135 miles. According to Monica, the HURT 100 in Hawaii will be her toughest of the year...even more difficult (again, according to Monica, and heck, she would know better than anyone!) than Badwater which is in Death Valley's heat...hot enough to melt your shoes! She could very likely run some of her races in under 20 hours. Terrain, heat, weather, elevation gain and loss, altitude...all factors that contribute to a races difficulty. Check out: http://www.monumentaleffort.com/a-step-beyond-a-definitive-guide-to-ultrarunning for a neat elevation profile of some of the 100 milers out there. If I lend you a book, will it take 3 years to get it back like that movie??!! Gotta run, Vince Hey Dean,

All of Monica’s races on that list are 100-milers except Badwater which is 135 miles. According to Monica, the HURT 100 in Hawaii will be her toughest of the year…even more difficult (again, according to Monica, and heck, she would know better than anyone!) than Badwater which is in Death Valley’s heat…hot enough to melt your shoes! She could very likely run some of her races in under 20 hours. Terrain, heat, weather, elevation gain and loss, altitude…all factors that contribute to a races difficulty. Check out: http://www.monumentaleffort.com/a-step-beyond-a-definitive-guide-to-ultrarunning for a neat elevation profile of some of the 100 milers out there.

If I lend you a book, will it take 3 years to get it back like that movie??!!

Gotta run, Vince

]]> By: Dean @The Quit List http://www.monumentaleffort.com/running-through-the-wall/comment-page-1#comment-91 Dean @The Quit List Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:45:43 +0000 http://www.monumentaleffort.com/?p=728#comment-91 The book sounds great. I need to see your book collection the next time we meet up. I also had a question about Monica's races. Were her first two both 100 milers. If so it's pretty amazing to lop off 11 hours off her time. Does that indicate that the first one was extremely tough? Oh and have you written about her story yet and what she is trying to achieve? DD The book sounds great. I need to see your book collection the next time we meet up. I also had a question about Monica’s races. Were her first two both 100 milers. If so it’s pretty amazing to lop off 11 hours off her time. Does that indicate that the first one was extremely tough? Oh and have you written about her story yet and what she is trying to achieve?

DD

]]> By: Neal http://www.monumentaleffort.com/running-through-the-wall/comment-page-1#comment-90 Neal Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:23:08 +0000 http://www.monumentaleffort.com/?p=728#comment-90 Vince, Thanks for the warm review. Good luck at the Traveller. A little trivia: Before the publisher would give me a contract they insisted I write and submit a sample essay. I submitted Francesca's, and the publisher said if the rest of the stories were half that good, we'd have a fine book. I am glad you like it. Run hard out there, Neal Jamison Vince,

Thanks for the warm review. Good luck at the Traveller. A little trivia: Before the publisher would give me a contract they insisted I write and submit a sample essay. I submitted Francesca’s, and the publisher said if the rest of the stories were half that good, we’d have a fine book. I am glad you like it.

Run hard out there,
Neal Jamison

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