FlatRock Twenty
This year’s event has rendered me nearly speechless. Please take note of two specific words in the sentence you just read, with the first being nearly. I am fairly certain that the only thing that would render me truly speechless would be a dismembered tongue or a traumatic brain injury. The second word of particular […]
19th Annual FlatRock 50 & 25K’s / September 28, 2013
I apologize for being about a week behind on getting this short race report out, however, I finally managed to decompress enough and come down from my high of the “epic experience of a lifetime” that I was fortunate enough to be a part of a little over one week ago at FlatRock…that and catching […]
“A Perfect Storm” 2013 FlatRock 50K
Where should I even start!? I absolutely love this race. Stumbling across the original FlatRock 50k website in 2009 is what made me decide to run ultras. Shit, it is why I decided to train for a marathon! I mean, who in the hell would go and try and run 31 miles on this trail […]
FlatRock 50K: Legend of “The Hand”
Legend has it that at the very first FlatRock 50k, a road marathon runner, who had underestimated the trail, collapsed on a large limestone bluff overlooking Elk City Lake with only a few miles until the finish. As the physically exhausted, mentally overwhelmed, and emotionally broken runner lay gasping and sobbing by the trail, a […]
