Nanci- I found a race for you!

[Running Mommy]

http://www.mattmahoney.net/wickham/wickham.html

click on the entry form link. It is HYSTERICAL!!!

[maillotpois]

Isn't that one of the races she does? I like the no wimps, whiners or worms part. And "snow is not expected" !!

[Nanci]

I already do Wickham Park!! After this year, I'll be the only woman to have done it three times! I "only" do the marathon, though, not 50 miles. One day I would like to do 50k there. I am hoping to get under ten hours (yes, ten hours) this year.

On the front page, there is inverted haiku I wrote about it.

Zen and Nez of Wickham Park


Zen:

Spiny sharp palmettos guard
Miles of deep white sand.
Ospreys watch from high above.


Nez:

Eyes fried by glaring white sand,
Stabbed by vicious plants,
I wish I was in the lake.

[Running Mommy]

I should have known... I should have known....
Sounds fun acutually... Well 'cept for the snakes....

[Nanci]

The pet name for Wickham Park Marathon is Brain Boiling Rat Basta*d.

It is so hot, so glaringly sunny, it's unbelievable. Imagine running (death marching) through deep white sand.

What makes it do-able is you go past your car every 3.75 miles, so you can have your own aid station (at that race, I live on defizzed Coke, watermelon and Energice Frozen Gels) and cooler and drop bag/basket of sunscreen, sponges, udder balm, etc.

At the end, (or in the middle!) you can go swim in this kind of icky lake. It feels so good!!! There is also a soccer field watered by some sort of gray water, which you can get into during certain times, and at about halfway, a water spigot to completely drench yourself in.

There are a couple shady spots, but they don't last long. And there have been two fires on the course, so what trees there were lost their leaves. The saw palmetto is expected to be fully recovered by race day.

I know the guy who is the only finisher ever of the 200 mile fun run. He's a rocket scientist, really. From Texas.

I love this race.

Nanci