We're (finally) re-launching our website this summer and we figured why not create a stir.....a frenzy....get everyone all hot and bothered! Oh wait, that's another web-site for another day....
The idea just arrived in my over-worked brain the other day, as our MyNextRace team was entered in one of my favourite races, the all-day Moraine for Life Adventure Relay. Paddling, mountain biking, trail running, spending the day outside. Bliss.....and I remembered an amazing list of races on my "to do" list, inspired by the surroundings, sweat and comraderie of friends:
- Comrades Marathon - South Africa Ultra (down)
- BC Bike Race - an epic 7-day mtn bike adventure
- Paris, Berlin and London Marathons (to complete the set)
- Alpe Duez - ask any frenchmen or roadie, they'll know....
- Trans Alp - ditto if it's a hard core Euro mtn biker
- Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon - yikes
- Antarctica Marathon - must meet Penguins before I die
- any race on a beach in Australia - there must be one.....
- Beer Mile - in Germany of course....
- the Amazing Race (with my sister, we would fight all the way through)
- the Vermont Adventure Race over three days, killer distances.....
- Tour d'Afrique - I need time away from the world one day.....
- Madoc Marathon - look it up, you won't believe it!
- Ironman Hawaii - the original
- Laugaveguer Ultra 50km (Iceland)
- Midnite Run in Central Park, NYCity, New Years's Eve
And on and on.....
I hope this blog gets you thinking, and it could be that you just want to finish something straightforward, like your first 5 or 10km run, but maybe in an exotic locale...Iceland has a 5km too!
I am lucky, blessed even, to have been in Boston for the 100th, and run a half-marathon in Reijkavik, the 10km in Quebec City, the Miami Half-Marathon, the Rome Marathon with my father and eight cousins watching, Sea to Summit Adventure Race, the Wall Street 5km (before 911), Run for the Toad 25km, Logs, Rocks and Steel Adventure Race (we didn't even finish). Ironman Arizona.....Cabot Trail and Jasper Banff Relay Races.....on and on....
Start dreaming, and send in those ideas....
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Peter
aka Jefferson
World Record Holder
