I am waiting for one of you bright boys to give me instructions on how to post a pic into a thread. I believe I delegated that about 6 posts ago and no one has yet complied.

I am busy logisticizing how Kathy & Cathy can take a train into NYC tomorrow and still make it back to Ontario by oh say 2am tomorrow night before the husbands notice we are late getting home :)

upload it to an online photo site like photobucket and then paste in the code. If you search there are good directions. Either that or just just post them to FB.

I can just post them onto FB and then ML will have to join up..... is he computer literate???

btw, I wasn't warming the Cosmos in my car..... I was further fermenting them while I raced..... it's called multi-tasking :)

I can haz interwebs?

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So nice to know you care!

I have seriously just got home from the single best race experience of my entire sporting life. No question whatsoever. The atmospehere, food, scenery, beer - completely unprecedented as far as I'm concerned.

As for the race, the gulf between myself and the four guys up front, on the bike especially, was huge and I'm kind of glad about that because it meant I never had to worry about whether I should try and keep up with them as they swept past me - it was never gonna happen and left me to just ride my own race. From the second bike loop on it was an absolute sufferfest but it'll be Wednesday before I flush out the last of these endorphins - just awesome.

Don't intend to move much tomorrow so I'll post a proper report then but congrats to everyone who raced today - hope you all had as much fun as I did.

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"Are you sure we're going fast enough?" - Emil Zatopek

Have I been talking to a WALL for these last 5.5 years? HELLO. ;-)

I still don't recall anyone who has done AmZof not really digging it.
Yeah, it's really hard, and it hurts a lot, and there's nowhere to hide, and you can't just cruise or shuffle along in z2 and finish.

It's the hard that makes it great.


Glad you could come out and play. See you next time.

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Simply Brutal. I felt every painful inch of that course over and over again. The course never gives you a chance to breath. Always up up up up up up up. That has got to be one of the toughest races in the country. Loved every second. Outstanding venue. Outstanding job by the RD and race organizers and all those great volunteers strewn all across the gunks until the bitter end. That is the type of race that keeps me racing. Grassroots feel by people that truly believe in the whole scene. No corporate bullshit here. EPIC.

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That was a blast! Worth the 7 hour ride to do the F-1 race. As ML (who I got to meet and rack next to) and my coach John Hirsch were duking it out for 1-2 I was stuck in no-man's land in 3rd for much of the race. Gave up on any hope of gaining on them after almost blowing up on 1st big hill on 2nd bike and rode/ran the rest conservatively just to preserve 3rd place. Was doing fine and thought I had no one in site behind me until 1/2 mile to go when heard footsteps on the last downhill and by then I was just cruising in so had to bury myself to not get caught. Collapsed in a heap in the pavilion only to see the person trying to run me down was J. Beck finishing his second loop.
Great race, great course, tough ass day but will be back next year. Only will definitely stay for Sunday night vs a 7 hour drive home...

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Def one of the greatest races around!! This was my 4th yr and will continue coming back. I think we need to get the october race back as well. Why not run it twice a year, may/oct. may as IMLP build up and oct for anyone who may have not qualified for kona/clearwater looking for a fall race.

While I really enjoyed everything yesterday, I honestly wish it were in October.

With the foliage and cool fall air, there really is nothing like the Gunks in October. And I agree, it is an excellent Kona/Draftwater alternative for those folks who are up to the challenge.

I know moving to to May was what (supposedly) opened it up to having the F1 format, due to "lesser car traffic", but honestly, I had more issues dealing w/ cars yesterday than in all my prior years combined. Which was probably just my luck, since neither Yoda nor Chris G had similar issues.
Got stuck behind cars both times on the big descent, slowing to a crawl the 2nd time due to the fire truck, ambulance, police cars, etc (I really hope that whomever they were working on is going to be ok), and at the stop sign I had to squeeze by 3 or more cars both times at like 5 mph.
Never had any of that happen before.

OK, on the plus side, the traffic out on the rest of the bike course proper was dramatically less than it would have been in Oct.
Only had one phalanx of Harleys go by, and there was no conga line stacked up trying to get into Minnewaska.


Now... I hadn't thought about doing AmZof in May AND Oct... how awesome would that be?

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float , hammer , and jog

i didnt have any problems with traffic and did notice that it was significantly less than oct. the views are awesome both times of the year. but why not offer both. maybe oct is just SC/LC and the F1 is only may but i know all the regular folks would sign up for both, i know i sure as hell would

Thank you! I have raced on 4 continents and this was the toughest course by far I have ever been on...and I did the short course. Far harder than Survival of the Shawangunks, and I thought the short course was harder than a 1/2 ironman. This race was exactly what I was looking for - a really well run, low key, grass roots event, that was a challenge just to finish with amazing scenery. Even the sounds were great - the birds were chirping so loud and I was all alone for the second run, which was a neat experience. This race is really worth travelling for, and I imagine as word of mouth spreads, it will be difficult to get into. I will sign up for next year the first day registration opens. Thanks again - really awesome, fun challenge.

Glad you enjoyed it! Welcome to the cult. We'll teach you the secret handshake next time. ;-)


For anyone who is Garmin-curious, here are the distances I got offa mine from yesterday:
(keep in mind the F1 had to go back into TA both times, whereas the LC racers do have one lap where they skip that, which is of course, a little shorter)

R1 - 4.85m
B1 - 28.68m
R2 - 4.95m
B2 - 28.68m
R3 - 4.87m

Given that the tight twists and turns, and full leaf cover for most of the run course, tend to cause a Garmin to "short" distances a bit, I'm calling it 5m.
The exact distance itself is nearly irrelevant anyway, it's not the "far" that gets ya. ;-)

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You're right - it is not the far that gets you. I'm not sure how exactly to approach training for this next year. Training for this run course by just running really does not cut it. The run featured so much side to side running and also a crazy burn in whatever muscle is near my hips on top of my quad as I was taking baby steps in complete oxygen debt up the hills on the run course. And the downhills were no respite since my quads were wrecked from the bike course. So other than training on the course (which is a bit of a hike for me) I'm thinking maybe running repeats up the steep hill on Lake Welch drive in Harriman (though that does not simulate the side-to-side), followed by 3 loops of the Harriman course followed by more running repeats up Lake Welch? Oh well, I'll figure something out -- which is also an appeal of this race.

FWIW, my Garmin showed 5.1mi for the first two laps of the run. Bike laps are consistent with yours.

I was the dude who wiped out twice on the run and had the skidmarks all over the back of my jersey. Still can't get over that run course. Downright devious.

Results are posted here:
http://www.cm2promotions.com/...ults_%26_Photos.html

I thought traffic was much lighter this time around. Not sure the time of year makes a big difference, course is just plain hard. I kept passing middle distance people and thinking "you poor son of a bitch, you have to get back on your bike after this", no hollow words of encouragement would have made a difference, just gave them a knowing nod.

Great race, great day, big props to the CM2 folks as usual. One of these days I will be man enough to attempt one of the longer distances.

Yeah devious run. You also had to focus mentally on almost every footstep so you didn't step on a rock, root, rut etc.. Loved crossing the 4 long wood planks and hopping the streams and stuff. Hated, especially the third loop, the "evil rock garden" climb. That's what I
nicknamed the second long trail climb through the boulders and rocks.

I remember you. I was on the black/white orbea and saw the skidmarks in your back. I asked you if you wrecked and you said yeah, twice on the run.

Despite feeling like I've been hit by a truck and having muscles in my legs that I didn't even know I had sore as hell today, can't wait to go back.

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In case anyone is looking for the results

http://www.yellowjacketracing.com/2010

Would have had them up last night but once we had them all cleaned up we couldn't get them loaded onto the site as the airphone was in a bit of a dead spot on I90 heading back to Rochester.

Thanks for having us as part of another fun AZ.

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Boots
Fleet Feet Rochester, NY
Fleet Feet Buffalo, NY
YellowJacket Racing, Rochester, NY

Great race and good organization. Beautiful day! I was the guy who showed up to the LC event 2 minutes before the race began! Thanks to the organizers for letting my GF prep my bike/transition as I hoofed off catching the pack with loose laces! Very challenging and awesome experience!! That'd never happen at any IM event, I tell ya.

Monster rocking (and rocky) course!

Cheers!

On the downlow, your GF has no clue what you mean by prep your transition area.

Lucky for you I was still in a giving mood.

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Boots
Fleet Feet Rochester, NY
Fleet Feet Buffalo, NY
YellowJacket Racing, Rochester, NY

Thanks, Boots and Ellen, for yet another consumately professional timing.
Thank you everyone who toed the line and to all the volunteers.
It seems all the time I'm racing AmZof, I want to be race directing, and then once I'm doing that, I want to be back racing.
My daughters are amazed how delirious some of you get up in the woods, late in the race. We just might have to set up a BBQ up there, as a few of you were obsessing over hamburgers - maybe that's what it will take to get glycogen back to the brain?
Of course, the scent of burgers will probably bring on the bears.
Congrats Josh Beck on crushing the course record, and to lovely Mimi Boyle for three-peating. Of all the checks I write each year, those 2 are my favorites.
Thanks, Murphy, for keeping me motivated, and Chris G, "another minute and I would have been chicked" Yoda, Cathy, Roche "pere et fils", and the rest of the ST crew for keeping it fun.
Tommy Keegan says you're all a bunch of nancies for return 3 kegs almost full.
Thanks Mohonk Preserve, Main St. Bistro, Hammer Nutrition and The NY State Troopers.
In case you were worried, the ITT rider who got hit by the car is fine.
Congratulations to a certain lady who not only finished in the money but totally chicked her ex-boyfriend.
Thanks Tom Ganz, Kurtis Nordahl, Lucy, Kaitlin, Erin, Nate, Dr. Costley, Shawn Jackson, Hon. Bill Pape, Jim Kelly Smith, Mary and Linda and especially Gabby Mancuso who held down the ITT fort and wrangled over a dozen volunteers. There are many others to thank; I'll try to get to that on our website.
Have a great season, everyone.

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R.I.P. Chris Gleason

Ditto to everything JM said. Thanks to everyone who make it possible, yet again.

Very glad to hear the ITT rider is fine, I was pretty worried when I saw all the emergency vehicles there.


PS - Maybe once REV3 gets their act together, they'll have cool online race updates like AmZof has had for years now. ;-)

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