Monthly Archives: October 2010

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  BEAR 100: My Unofficial Finish

  Posted on October 16, 2010 by Laufenem in 100 Miles, Race Reports, Running, Ultrarunning

  I did not quit PRE-RACE Thursday, September 23, 2010: John and I dropped the kids off at my parents’ house in Nampa and then picked up Sam. After loading all his gear, making a stop at Subway for an early lunch, and swinging by the church for an improptu prayer lined up by Tina for [...]

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  2009 Big Horn 50k

  Posted on October 15, 2010 by Laufenem in 50 K, Race Reports, Running, Ultrarunning

  JUNE 20, 2009: First Ultra Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible. –Shakespeare, Julius Caesar My first ultramarathon was everything I thought it WOULD be, but better, and none of the horrible things I thought it COULD be. I have struggled much over the last months with how to write this story [...]

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  The Beginning: A Run Log

  Posted on October 13, 2010 by Laufenem in Beginning Running, Personal, Running, Running Log

  WEEK 8: FEB 19 – FEB 25, 8.1 miles 2/25/07, Sun: NO RUN. 2/24/07, Sat: .5 miles, paper route. 2/23/07, Fri: 3.3 miles, 35:26. Little slower than yesterday, but I still felt great. 2/22/07, Thur: 3.3 miles, 33:55. Today, even as I ran through the fog, I felt as if I emerged from a very [...]

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  The Beginning: Starting Over

  Posted on October 12, 2010 by Laufenem in Beginning Running, Personal, Running

  The following is an excerpt from a paper on ultrarunning that I wrote for an English class in the Fall 2007. I merely extracted paragraphs from throughout the paper, so if it doesn’t seem very coherent, that’s why. I include it in this blog because it gives some background on the mentality with which I [...]

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