Pancakes! Beer! Nudity!

[underpants]

Pancakes! Beer! Nudity!: Sometimes you need an out-of-the-ordinary running experience. A skyscraper race. A wife-carrying contest. Here are 15 ways to fun off the beaten path. By Robert Sullivan, Sean Flynn and Mark Adams

http://www.runnersworld.com/cda/whatinside/0,7135,,00.html

[taterguy]

1. The local nekkid 5K was last weekend

Good times
There's a clothing optional triathlon in a couple weeks, not sure how many folks will be crazy/stupid enough to ride a bike 12 miles with no seat protection.

[Parche]

2. MAG

So that is where the syrup goes.............:hi:

[AllegroRondo]

3. Distance runners are an odd sort

you have to be a little out there to run 26 miles at a crack. But it certainly is fun.

[underpants]

4. Yes

9 miler this weekend. I just about lost it running about 6 on the beach in the middle of the day at Myrtle Beach-my dumb ass didn't take any water with me :spank:

[AllegroRondo]

5. you must be a masochist

I did 15 on Sunday, but left at 6AM. Theres no way I could take the mid-day heat here in Missouri.

Another trick I learned is to stash water bottles on the road side. I have a couple of loops I run regularly (8 miles, 6, 4, and 3) so I stash the water near my house where the loops start/finish. you mix and match the loops to get whatever distance you like, and grab the water when you finish a loop.

[underpants]

6. Yeah a guy who did the Richmond marathon last year told me about that

I just carry one with me and I got used to the water belt thing-I switched a little coke bottle for the big water bottle it came with.

I have no idea what I was thinking at Myrtle. Most of that was on the only undeveloped part of the whole stretch. It was like running through a desert-there was a county cop posted at one end to watch the surfers and no one for at least 2 miles on the beach NO ONE