A Suprise Award....and Bighorn 100 Training Log: Weeks 19 and 18 to Go
The most pleasant surprise of the last few weeks was receiving the "Agony of De Feet" award from my running club, the New York Flyers, at the club's annual "awards gala." For "best male ultrarunner of the year," or something like that. Admittedly, it's a road running club that doesn't always make such awards, and there are only a handful who dabble in ultras among the 500 or so members. But I was touched to be recognized by a group of people who've meant a lot to me over the years, even as I gravitated away from roads. I was happy they mentioned not only the distances of the races I did last year and how long I've been doing ultras ('05), but also the Yahoo forum I created and moderate. The forum has been very important to me as a network and community and it first started out with support from a number of Flyers. On a side note, it is always somewhat humorous to me (and I mean this in a totally non-condescending way) th