Finally back!!

Hi to whom ever reads my boring ass blog, i'm sorry if I offended any of you by not responding to your comments or questions! I will try to be more diligent with my blog in the new year...I would just like all of you to know that my wife started this blog for me and I was very busy with many endeavors when she did, so I tend to forget that I have a blog at all...I will try to give you a quick recap of the past what? 2 years of races? I think my wife's last post was the Lookout Mountain 50miler in Chattanooga, Tn.....I'll start from my first ultra-marathon leading up to the lookout mountain 50miler, then continue on from there.The first ultra-marathon I ever attempted was The Holiday Lake 50k,in virginia....I can't believe how horribly I did, after driving for seven hours I finally arrived at the Holiday lake 4h center, for check in and dinner, I stayed up late talking to people who weren't even in the race, then got little to no sleep in my truck, woke up to snow all around which is fine, because I never did care about weather conditions when running or playing sports. I tend to like the situation even more. My biggest problem of the whole day was that for whatever reason I completely over dressed, and by the halfway point in the race I was sucking some serious wind....so needless to say the second half of the race wasn't my best performance....on the way with about 10 miles left I saw a man named louis carrying an almost life sized cross on his shoulders and I stopped to talk with him, he had many nice things to say about his life and kids, so much so that it made me shed some tears...but I had to be on my way and I never saw louis again....Fast forward to 1 mile from the finish line, still moving towards finishing on time...and then to my chagrin, the clock caught me....I was so close...I kept snailing along until I hit the road to the finish and since I didn't think my time mattered I kept stopping to talk to people along the way...and low and behold there was the finish line, I ran across and started to walk away and the race directors wife asked me where I was going? She needed to mark my time, she said I finished the race so my time would be counted...whaaattt? So she gave me a time of 9hrs24min....I should've been there at least 9:10 at the most, every minute counts and I was wasting mine blabbing in the street right next to the finish line....now I know.....anyway, I walked into a cabin to sit down and warm up and I started dry heaving, David Horton the race director just walked past me and laughed, nice of him....so that was the start of my ultra-running life, and I loved it! everyone left and I was alone sleeping in my truck for a few more hours before I awoke and drove down the road, got some sprites from a gas station and drove somemore until I pulled into a walmart parking lot, it felt good to rest my weary head........see why I don't keep up with my blog....I can't keep my thoughts in line....oh yeah, for my effforts that day I received a t-shirt, not a finisher shirt, just a basic shirt that said Holiday Lake 50k on it....not bad for 9hrs worth of work...........Next race, The next race I was signed up for was The Land between the Lakes 50 miler, in Kentucky......I will write about this one on the next post....I promise I will post all of my past races up to date.....but for now I will sign off, because i'm not sounding coherent....until next time, keep up the good work! AND THANKS FOR FOLLOWING!!:)