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Well, I took a little time off to recover from a big summer of mountain and trail running. I'm slowly ramping back into things.

Started out the cross country season with a shyte show of a race race report

This weekend I've go the series finale for the trail running I have been doing. I currently lead the series, but just barely http://www.webscorer.com/seriesresult?seriesid=39748 So it will be right down to the wire, exciting stuff.

I'm making a run summit attempt of Mt. Whitney next Monday, too. And then the focus will shift to XC through winter time. 

Empty track, good day for a little pre-race tune-up

... and I'm outta here.  My flight's at 2, off to Barcelona

Good luck Mark!

Last road race of the season is done for me.  Race report is below.  tl;dr version is I finished 2nd but it's kinda like first because the guy that won was way stronger than everyone else.

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=536226

Did a century ride yesterday that had some torrential downpours in the middle.  Hit a reflector and went down sliding on the road in an inch of water.  Small holes in my bibs and my jersey was the worst of it.  Was kind of fun except for that.  Doing a 24 hour mountain bike race next weekend, which will most likely be a 4-6 hour race for me and a 18-20 hour party.  If it rains like it did yesterday, it may be a 24 hour party.  LOL.

Well the second part sounds fun at least! Are you riding straight through for the 4-6 hours? Or switching off after x laps or something?

The course is a 5-6 mile loop in a valley.  You basically do as many loops as you can in 24 hours  (9am-9am) but you can start and stop whenever you feel like it.  Only a handful of people (or teams of up to 5) actually are competing to win and the other 80 or so riders are just there to ride a little and camp out with friends.  It's all privately owned land on a ranch (we need to avoid cows and their pie) so it's an area you can't otherwise access other than this and a few other mountain bike/xterra races.

I've ridden there once before and it was pretty challenging for a mountain bike noob like myself, but that was a 20 mile race (two 10 mile loops).  I think they are removing some of the more dangerous stuff for this course to accommodate night riding as well as making sure people are not too far from help if they need it.

My goal is to ride as much during daylight as I can but I'm not kidding myself either.  I'm just there to have fun and hopefully get a little better on the mountain bike (I'm borrowing).

I've been MIA for a bit -- work decided to block BT (apparently they don't think it's business-related....hah!) and I'm generally training in the evening, so don't sign on.  But I just raced an aquabike on Sunday, so have taken the last two days easy.  I had a really good race and am very happy with how my biking has come along in the last few months.

RR here: http://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=536290&posts=1#M5143940

Unfortunately, I'm still struggling with my stress fracture.  I seem to be slow to heal, so it's a real bummer.  Trying to schedule a DEXA scan and see if I can get insurance to cover a bone stimulator.  The weather in Houston is just on the verge of not sucking, so I'd like to be able to start running again....but my doc told me he wants me in the boot for another four weeks (jury's out on whether that'll happen, but I did wear it today).  Plus, I signed up for Pucon 70.3 in January, so I really should be running by now....but trying to take a long-term approach to this and not get myself injured again.  

Well, hey, it sounds like you can just take the aqua bike scene by storm until then. Great job! 

Finished out my trail running series race report

Now, onto XC season. A few mountain things here and there until the snow comes. 

My watch apparently created this with my GPS data and synced with time stamps on my photos without me having to do a damn thing (other than run of course.) What a cool way to visualize a trail running route or share specifics with friends! Technology, you're not SO bad.

Enchantments Trail Run

That is beyond cool!

lol only if I also get a designated film editor as part of the package to delete the hours and hours of boring footage of me meandering around the backcountry taking photos. 

Originally posted by spudone

Originally posted by marcag

Originally posted by Asalzwed Technology, you're not SO bad.

I know what you need !!!There is a drone, that communicates with a wrist band. It follows you and films you. You need that !! (seriously this exists)I say we get a FundMe page going so we can get you one.

Not to be trusted! We had to sign that waiver for possible death and dismemberment by drone during the Alcatraz race. I heard they tried to take out Arend and Chris on the swim but the drone couldn't keep up

That drone was the first thing I saw when I popped up out of the water after jumping off.

Did they ever publish any video from that? I don't recall seeing any.

Originally posted by spudone

Originally posted by marcag

Originally posted by Asalzwed Technology, you're not SO bad.

I know what you need !!!There is a drone, that communicates with a wrist band. It follows you and films you. You need that !! (seriously this exists)I say we get a FundMe page going so we can get you one.

Not to be trusted! We had to sign that waiver for possible death and dismemberment by drone during the Alcatraz race. I heard they tried to take out Arend and Chris on the swim but the drone couldn't keep up

Thought Chris was waterpolo, so shouldn't this be an advantage?

I got drone whacked on a run a few weeks back, dang thing hit me in the back of the head.  So count me in the "anti-drone" group.  Or at least in the group of people that believes there should be a class given before someone flies their drone in public.

Yikes! For real!?!?! Yeah I don't imagine it will be long before the drone free for all madness gets dialed back, thank goodness!

My friend is a helicopter flight nurse and said some of idiots flying those things are seriously threatening peoples lives when they are forced to hold up takeoff/landing for emergency flights to/from the ER because a drone is in their airspace.

Yep, it wasn't of any large size, but it certainly took me by surprise.  I merely turned around, picked it up, set it on the fence post, looked at the guy, and turned and kept running.

I can see some challenges in the future, they have been more popular than RC planes from what I can see. And if the thing that hit me had been of any larger size...