This post is a summary of my supplies and ideas for the JFK 50 miler that is coming up in three weeks. A summary of my training is not nearly as exciting, which consists of way too much treadmill time and not enough mileage.

About the Race

The JFK 50 miler is in western part of Maryland on the border of West Virginia and is scheduled for November 17, 2018. It is America's oldest…

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This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- Bear Creek Bear Run (Event date 10 November https://allevents.in/colorado%20springs/bear-creek-bear-run-3k/20001144673999)

Upcoming Events & Guests @ JQRC through 27 November 2018:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- 30OCT: Bear Creek…

Quinnian’s!

This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- Audrey Celebration

- USOC Indoor Marathon Fantasy Camp (Event dates 13-16 December 2018 www.TeamUSA.org/IndoorMarathon)

- Waldo Waldo (Event Date 20 October 2018 http://www.waldowaldo5k.com/)

Upcoming Events & Guests @ JQRC through 27 November 2018:

-…

Quinnian’s!

This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- Waldo Waldo (Event Date 20 October 2018 http://www.waldowaldo5k.com/)

Upcoming Events & Guests @ JQRC through 30 October 2018:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- 23/30OCT: Bear Creek Bear Run

Running Quote of the Day:

For me, like so many others, running is the answer. Out…

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This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- Rim to Rim Royal Gorge Races (Event Dates: October 6, 2018 (5K/10K) - October 7, 2018 (Half-Marathon)) Website: http://www.rimtorimroyalgorge.com/

- Awake Palmer Lake .5 (Yes, “point” 5) K (Event Date 07 October 2018 Website: http://awakepalmerlake.org/)

Upcoming Events…

If the walls in a running store could talk, they'd have some pretty interesting tidbits to divulge.

On today's episode of Loafing Around the Register at the Runners Roost, the topic of happiness came up. Well, not directly, let me backtrack. We were taking about Emilie Forsberg, her perpetual adorable smile, her seemingly everlasting happiness, and how this just has to be because Sweden is ranked one of the happiest countries in the world.

I mean, who wouldn't be ecstatically…

Fly fishing is not my first love, but it’s close. I’ve been fortunate to travel the state and catch lots of fish. Big fish, little fish, flashy, colorful, fighting fish.

On Saturday it felt good to trick a stealthy trout into taking my fly on the low-running Lake Fork of the Gunnison River, which must be close to the middle of nowhere. The occasion was the 2018…

I never really thought that I would find myself in a seemingly perpetual state of cognitive dissonance doing something as simple as selling people running shoes. Thing is, it's become rather infrequent that I am actually fitting a regular runner in shoes. Generally those people already know what they want and ask immediately for it, or they don't come in at all because what they know they need can be found cheaper online...such is the struggle of brick-and-mortar businesses. Story for…

Quinnian’s!

This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

Upcoming Events & Guests @ JQRC through 30 October 2018:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- 25SEP: Awake Palmer Lake 5K

- 02OCT: Rim to Rim Royal Gorge Races (Event Dates: October 6, 2018 (5K/10K) - October 7, 2018 (Half-Marathon)) Website: http://www.rimtorimroyalgorge.com/

-…

This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- High Altitude Events

- UCCS Trek the Trails 5K (event date 15 Sep 2018 WWW.cvent.com/d/lgqtt5)

- Rim to Rim Royal Gorge Races (Event Dates: October 6, 2018 (5K/10K) - October 7, 2018 (Half-Marathon)) Website: http://www.rimtorimroyalgorge.com/

- YMCA Race Series

Upcoming Events…

My college coach, God bless 'im, seems to believe that I am on my way to becoming a professional cyclist. The guy just loves a good rags-to-riches story, and has a keep-fighting-the-fight-and-never-ever-say-die attitude, which is a large part of why I ran so well under him years ago. When I told him several months ago that running wasn't going so hot, with at that time no light whatsoever at the end of the tunnel, and I told him I just made a terribly financially irresponsible decision…

I can remember a few years ago, hanging out in a hotel room with my then-BRC/Adidas race teammates following a Club cross country after party which was, as always, completely glorious in its displays of intoxicated-awkward-runner dance moves and even more awkward advances from Masters runners who prowled the bar and dance floor looking for some poor unsuspecting runner girl to attempt to seduce with an age group medal.

Ah, like Springsteen says, "Glory days, they'll pass you by."…

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It’s official! After 12 years and almost 40,000 members, we are now on Strava. Join our club and share your workouts, on Tuesdays and every other day, that you are out there killing it!

This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- High Altitude Events

- UCCS Trek the Trails 5K (event date 15 Sep 2018 WWW.cvent.com/d/lgqtt5)

Upcoming Events & Guests…

I’ve been writing this blog in my head for the last week or so. Talking to folks about their race and then reading comments online it was like there were two different races going on. I prefer to look at the positive side. The last race of the Triple Crown 2018, The Pikes Peak Ascent AKA the Barrcent, was Saturday, August 18th. The Pikes Peak Marathon went off without a hitch on Sunday, August 19th. With the ridiculous weather the two weeks prior to the race and the evening before with…

Quinnian’s!

This week at Jack Quinn’s Irish Pub:

- Boulder Running Company

- JQRC Merchandise Table

- High Altitude Events

- Waldo Waldo (Event date 20 October 2018 http://www.waldowaldo5k.com/)

- UCCS Trek the Trails 5K (event date 15 Sep 2018 WWW.cvent.com/d/lgqtt5)

Upcoming Events & Guests @ JQRC through 25 September 2018:

- Boulder Running Company

-…

I find myself sitting once more in Sharon's kitchen this morning in her awesome little house hidden in the Intervale, NH woods.

Seriously. It's hidden. I get completely lost and turned around in literally one square mile trying to find the driveway every. Single. Year. All the neighbors know me now because of my annual pulling into their driveway with my brights on in the dead of night trying to determine if their's is the correct house. Miraculously, I haven't been shot at…

     The third and final leg of the 2018 Triple Crown of running is in the record books now, the Pikes Peak Ascent.

     It’s old news by now, but due to the inclement weather forecast, the race was shortened to end at Barr Camp.  The day before the race large hail pummeled Manitou Springs, damaging vehicles and frightening race participants, reminding race directors, volunteers, and race veterans all too much of the blizzard of 2008 that hit on Ascent day that year.

    I…

The party is almost here! The weekend when all of the runners I know are gathering in Manitou Springs to show off their training. To volunteer and support their friends and family. To earn their finisher's shirts or jackets. To celebrate completing a huge challenge, whether it's their 1st or 15th time. It's always a challenge.  It's the final leg of the Triple Crown of Running. The…

This morning I went on my last run before the Pikes Peak Ascent on Saturday. I kept it short (3.5 miles) and somewhat hilly but not technical. My legs are feeling pretty good, and I'm trying to get as much rest as I can and drink lots of water. 

Training the last few weeks has mostly consisted of consistent hilly runs, anywhere from 4 to 9 miles. I also hiked the Devil's Playground trail a few weeks ago, not quite a summit but close. That's a laughable amount of time at altitude…

With only a few days until the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon (and the final leg of this year's Triple Crown of Running), I'm psyched. 

Being selected as a…