Running 100K … really

No, no, no, I wasn’t running 100K, but, this past weekend, while hiking to Stinson Beach in Marin, we were passed by a bunch of runners who were running along our trail. We asked one of them how far they were running. The gentleman, likely in his 50s answered “100 K”. The four of us in my group thought… “no way, this guy has got to be pulling our chain”. So, we asked the next runner who passed us how many miles he was running. He responded with, “62 miles”. Holy moly… this really was a 100K race that we had infiltrated. Apparently, this was the Miwok Race which had started at 5:40 AM that morning. When most of these runners passed us, they were on mile 23. After we hiked 3.3 miles down to Stinson beach, had lunch, strolled on the beach and then hiked back up a 4 mile trail, we ended our day at the 2/3 point in the Miwok race. It was about 3:30 PM and many of the runners were about 2/3 of the way through their race. Can you imagine running for about 14 hours? This makes my 10K run look like child’s play!

Anyways, here are a couple of pictures of our wonderful hike along the Dipsea trail and a couple of other trails in the area. It’s funny because Kevin and I have spent so much of our time off / vacations outside of the U.S. We haven’t even been to some of the most beautiful areas of Northern California.