vee4xu
10-24-2010, 09:11 PM
This note is for you hard core runners out there.
Today I returned from running the 2010 Bourbon Chase. It is a 200 mile, round the clock relay race through the Bourbon Trail in central Kentucky. I am a long time runner and this was the most fun I've had competing. The team consists of 12 participants and there are 36 legs in the race. Each runner runs 3 legs of the race in succession from runner 1 through 12 until the race is completed. No sleep to speak of. Very little formal eating takes place. You are tired and smell really bad when you finish, but when the other 11 of us met our final teammate on Main Street near Triangle Park in Lexington to run that final 150 yards together to the finish line, it was awesome. We started at 11:30 a.m. on Friday at the Maker's Mark Distillery and finished at 3:38 p.m. Saturday afternoon in downtown Lexington. I suggest that anyone interested in the Bourbon Chase go to their website and check it out. The event is limited to 200 teams and it sold out pretty fast for the 2010 race. Good times.
Also, I must give a shout out to my very good friend and roommate of 4 years, Bourbonman who stopped by on his way from Louisville to tailgate before the UK game to drop of one bottle each of Woodford Reserve and Old Forester Signature (100 proof) for me and my teammates to share in celebration of our feat. Cheers my friend!
For anyone looking for something new in the running arena, try this 200 miler or one somewhere else that you might like. You won't regret it.
Today I returned from running the 2010 Bourbon Chase. It is a 200 mile, round the clock relay race through the Bourbon Trail in central Kentucky. I am a long time runner and this was the most fun I've had competing. The team consists of 12 participants and there are 36 legs in the race. Each runner runs 3 legs of the race in succession from runner 1 through 12 until the race is completed. No sleep to speak of. Very little formal eating takes place. You are tired and smell really bad when you finish, but when the other 11 of us met our final teammate on Main Street near Triangle Park in Lexington to run that final 150 yards together to the finish line, it was awesome. We started at 11:30 a.m. on Friday at the Maker's Mark Distillery and finished at 3:38 p.m. Saturday afternoon in downtown Lexington. I suggest that anyone interested in the Bourbon Chase go to their website and check it out. The event is limited to 200 teams and it sold out pretty fast for the 2010 race. Good times.
Also, I must give a shout out to my very good friend and roommate of 4 years, Bourbonman who stopped by on his way from Louisville to tailgate before the UK game to drop of one bottle each of Woodford Reserve and Old Forester Signature (100 proof) for me and my teammates to share in celebration of our feat. Cheers my friend!
For anyone looking for something new in the running arena, try this 200 miler or one somewhere else that you might like. You won't regret it.