http://www.hollyrn.com Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever... Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:11:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that the official results are posted ...overall I actually finished #66 of 87 total racers. The results are: Ranking Name Bib # Age Rank Run Pace Rank ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/309 I finished 1st in my category in the Fontainebleau Off-Road Duathlon! Granted, there was only one other lady in the 20-29 age bracket... but that's beside the point! It was a greuling course! 2 miles running, 8 miles biking, and 2 more miles of running... all in 1 hour 26 ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/305 I've been too busy working during the week and being a "weekend warrior" to bother to write about it this summer! Seriously... this has been a great year... all in all. Discovering mountain biking and adventure racing has been a blast! A recap on our last race: we had two ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/304 Is everyone happy now... I've actually posted. http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/303 Event: Mountain Bike Race Approximate distance: 1 lap = 5 miles Lap time: 34:50 Temperature outdoors: 96 degrees Humidity 99% Heat Index: felt like 100 degrees (perhaps celsius!) Insects: mosquitos actually tried to carry off one rider who stopped for too long on the "Dagobah/Swamp Trail" Seriously... you can't stop out there... no amount of Deet ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/302 I LOVE ADVENTURE RACING!!!!! Granted... our #1 goal in the next race is to complete it... but that's a long story... we were on the last leg of the race and simply ran out of time! It was Spectacular though... Some parts were just pure FUN... some, granted, were pure torture!!! ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/301 So... I've been too excited to sleep!!! I went to bed right before 11 last night and promptly woke up at 1245... wide awake! I finally gave up and started getting all of my stuff ready and cleaning my apartment. It's sad when you are washing dishes at 3 am... ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/300 Now that I no longer update, I suppose I can just post in relative anonymity for a while now until someone, in extreme boredom and (questionable) loyalty, checks this abandoned blog of mine. :D Ok, now to the good stuff!!! I'm SOOO excited... my plane tickets to Nepal are finally booked and ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/299 So... I just finished the registration for the Adventure Race myself and two other ladies are going to be doing May 10th. The most difficult part of this whole process... besides trying to FIND 3 other people who were as crazy as me, and to decide on a mountain bike ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/298 It's SOOOO beautiful outdoors!!! The sun's shining, the grass is growing, the flowers are blooming, its the "false spring" in the middle of winter. You gotta love Louisiana, where we don't have winter, just unpredictable periods of cold weather. :D I wasn't made for urban life! Here's some of the ... http://www.hollyrn.com/archives/292