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TIME FOR THE 100 MILE TRAIL RACE!!!

LETS GO!!! OK, .. as if. I really don't get it. 100 miles.... all one single race....Up and down the hills,.... only stopping to drink water, and change socks, and maybe an energy bar. 100 miles that starts in Wrightwood, and ends in Altadena. They actually have to make long back and forths to other points along the way to make it 100 miles. Have you ever hiked to mt. Wilson from the Eaton Cyn area? Try jogging it all the way up. then running fast all the way down. Then you say out loud oooonnnnnnneeeeee. Ok now do that 4 1/2 more times. Last year I went to the spot where the Mt. Wilson toll road meets the   Idle hour trail to see some runners that had already gone about 85 miles. I have been trail running for years, and thought I would wait one minute after he passed (so I don't disturb them), after the second fastest runner, and run down hill to idle hour and back up the other side. No problem. I had warmed up with the four miles to get to that point, and they had done 86 miles by that time. But no. He was running fast, and my iphone light was a mistake. I became blurry eyed and semi-blind to everything after 15 minutes. Then I realized that no one around except me. And there I was next to the campground, in pitch black, at about 9P.M. with no one anywhere. That grinding into the soil sound I heard .. the kind where you know it was something very heavy slowly moving... well that sound I imagined was a bear about 20 feet away...... I found out later their was a bear sighting there earlier. The best I can do at 57 years old is mount Wilson in 1:59.00. Two hours is not bad when it took me three hours at 18 years old. But to do 100 miles simply looks beyond human to me. So hurry up and sign up. I'll just watch from one of the stations.

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