My brief gig as a Runner's World correspondent
I'm blogging about Western States for Runner's World. Here's the first of two scheduled posts. It contains a certain amount of genuine arrogance, but in my own defense, the final title ("Greg Crowther's Half-Full Plan To Win The Western States 100 Mile") is cockier than the one I submitted. I do very much want to win but am not at all confident that I will win. Just so we're clear on that....
Meanwhile, there's still plenty of time to enter my Western States prediction contest. Plenty of reasonable votes have been cast so far, but where are the Eric Grossman and Hal Koerner supporters?
Comments
Great article! Again, good luck at Western States!!!!
Posted by: Kelly S. Nichols | June 20, 2007 8:14 AM
Greg,
Great story! Thanks for sharing your thoughts heading into this weekend's Western States. Just something for you to tuck into the back of your mind for Saturday -- I believe Dave Mackey in 2004 had the fastest debut ever at WS with a 16:30. That might push you below the magical 10-minute per mile barrier, but it's something for you to think about. Best of luck on Saturday, and keep up the great writing. Your blog is excellent!
Posted by: John Trent | June 20, 2007 11:37 AM
Greg,
Great article on RW. You've unabashedly put yourself and your plan out there. It's honest, insightful, and real. Thanks for sharing!
Meghan
Posted by: Meghan | June 20, 2007 7:10 PM
Great story on RW, Doog. As always, just the right balance of self-confidence and self-effacement, with some nice insights (into both running, and yourself) thrown in.
Posted by: Jem | June 20, 2007 8:35 PM
....From reading your RW accounts:
Greg, if i can throw my 2 cents in... rather than the folly schedulling every mile spilt I see more of the true scientist's soul of lending his body - and mind in this particular RW "blog-riment" (allow me to coin the term) - to Science. Science of Running mixed with the Science of Writing. If half the people, like you, who gather significant data on the planet could also effectively "communicate" and interpret that data (like you), we, meaning the planet, would have a whole lot of useful information to better the quality of life. I suppose this a likely and realistic bottom line in the end. We have made progress with third party testing (animal and/or human) but the real test is when you test yourself. Concrete bread and butter trial and error... The value of the stakes (your health, your accuracy, your pride, your will) makes the experiment, now blog-riment ,so much more reliable even if not applicable to the general population. Truth probably is somewhere in between, i.e. both methods are important and one should not prevail on the other. Have a great long day.... and just to throw a cute one in there, I am writiing this on the longest day of the year... may it bring you some Scientific Luck :-)
Posted by: corrado giambalvo | June 21, 2007 5:17 AM
Greg-
Found your blog via the RW article. Great article - even better blog. Good luck at the WS 100!
Posted by: Marcus | June 21, 2007 5:39 AM
Best of luck tomorrow, Greg. Run smart (like you usually do), and you should be in range of your goals. Looks like you picked a great year for your debut weather-wise, although the field is stacked with many great runners!
Looking forward to the post-race report already...
SD
Posted by: ScottD | June 22, 2007 12:08 PM
Greg, sorry you had to drop:(
But predictions...nobody bet on Hal!!!
Posted by: olga | June 24, 2007 6:04 AM