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some of it, I guess. It depends what's runnable for you. There were parts that were runnable that we didn't feel so motivated to run. Maybe 19 miles? -Dr. Wu

We did the loop that at this point, everyone in the known universe knows about at this point: North Twin Trail --> FW Trail to Hale --> Zea Cliff --> Zea-Land --> South Twin except we went down to Gale Head and went out that way. Jason and I did all the car spotting because Ryan and Kristiner...

I was secretly working on the grid instead ... Now just 11x the mighty Texumser stands in my way! -Dr. Wu

The night time photo is freaking amazing but thank god the waterfall one wasnt a nudie.... -Mr. Kill

I made a "training log" thing in the social groups. I don't know if it'll be useful or not... I can always delete it. Not everyone does "training" and some people just get out and do stuff during the week and don't consider it "training" but you kind of get the picture. Sometimes, I find, it's...

The VT 4k Grid isn't exactly a hot item! :p I'm obviously not working on the Grid but I do hike in "mud" season in the Whites. I try to be fairly conscientious about not overly contributing to trail erosion but to be honest it's so hard to predict. Sometimes you have the monorail till like...

Try them with a VBL... light sock, plastic bag (somebody mentioned using a turkey roaster bag, I just use grocery store bags [Market Basket works particularly well] but I also have real bonefide VBL's that I bought from campmor years back and I think Jason Funnybook has some sort of plastic...

http://www.irunfar.com/2010/01/snowshoe-running-basics-why-and-how.html Might be a good place to start. -Dr. Wu

I have a question about this though. Will this really stop Massholes from coming to NH to hike? I sort of doubt it. If people list pro's and con's of coming up to hike in the Whites, I'm sure the "being charged $8 million for a helicopter rescue" would be on the list but not in the top ten...

Jason Facebuggy has a lot of opinions on them as he's used them off-and-on for a while. I've never tried them but it seems like they haven't resolved a lot of their issues. -Mr. Kill

Snowshoe running is nothing new but it can be challenging when you're on long days trekking through deep, potentially unconsolidated snow whether you're hiking or (trying) to run. Based on some rec's from Jason Faceybookis I started experimenting with using trail runners in combination with...

Are you still alive?

If you just stopped fishing and focused more on hiking maybe you wouldn't have this problem, potentially. Just sayin... -Dr. Wu

Well, I ran a trail marathon the following weekend? I guess that's recovery. Serious though, the next day after the 50 I was pretty stiff. I didn't do anything. The following day (tuesday) I went to the gym but it was pretty tedious. On the Wednesday I went for a 7 mile run and I felt decent...

I ran a 50k in April (TARC Spring Classic) but after that a foot injury limited me to biking for a good part of the spring / summer. In July I started running again but I was feeling frustrated trying to really get back into it. In late August , on a whim, I signed up for the VT50 thinking that...

The Wild Cats My longest run in the 3 months leading up to the VT50 was one 13 mile trail run. I was in pretty rough shape going into it but somehow managed to pull through. I think (for me at least) a large part of it is mental. I'll put up a VT50 TR in a bit but going into the 50 I felt...

All I can usually stomach while running is some pretzels. I ate a bunch of honey stinger blocks (like GU chomps but tastier, I think). Plus I had the Honey Stinger Waffles. For electrolyte replacement I had the Hammer Nutrition Endurolytes Tablets. -Dr. Wu

One week after running my first 50 mile race (VT50) I decided to run the Nipmuck Trail Marathon in Connecticut. I knew I wouldn’t have fully recovered yet – my body can’t recover that fast yet as a lot of seasoned ultra runners bodies can – but I figured it would be a challenge and I heard that...

You jerk! You had a chance to tell Dave Bear and the whole world how well behaved and sober I was on Wildcat "D" and instead you threatened Jason! HE was there in spirit! -Dr. Wu

Well, they don't usually need a reason to make no sense at all. They just seem to enjoy butting into everyone else's business. Just for fun one day you should post something like, "I felt safe because I gave both Sage and Alex guns (with live ammo) before the hike... just in case... " Uh oh...