BRC Ultra Border Crawl IX – 10/6 – 6:00AM – 36.9 Miles of Everything – Logistic Details

04. October 2018 News 0

Not a Crawl, The Crawl (show some respect)

Dropping a bit of history on you, this is the OG route, first trod in 2010. Dropping some names on you; Martin Lowrie, Steve Cooper, Glen Hartford, Gene Fay, Hey 19, and Andrew McDevitt completed this route the inaugural year. The sum total of their Members’ numbers is just 95. The next guy to complete the full pull in this direction four years later was Joe Loureiro, 85 all by himself, who completed it in record time if we kept records. And then he rode his bike home. Damn.

 

Which is my way of saying, put on your big boy/girl pants on Saturday.

 

Plenty of Stories

I could regale you for paragraphs with tales about the people who didn’t think they could run 36 miles and touch all the borders – but then did it anyway. I won’t. Fifteen Members have done it, three of them twice.

 

Which is my way of saying, put on your big boy/girl pants on Saturday.

                                                                               

Here’s Where We Go

Front nine: https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/1295679943/

Back nine: https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/144828465/

 

Here’s Our Schedule(ish) (we start at 6:00, set your alarm)

Leg

Border/Stop

Leg Mi.

Total Mi.

Time*

0

Start – Common

0

6:00:00

1

Andover

2.13

2.13

6:26:18

2

North Reading

4.92

7.05

7:20:30

3

Middleton

3.57

10.62

8:01:12

4

Mid – Common

5.62

16.24

End of 1st Loop

9:02:24

5

Boxford

3.81

20.05

9:45:30

6

Haverhill

2.38

22.43

10:14:18

7

Methuen

5.45

27.88

11:13:48

8

Salem, NH

2.79

30.67

11:46:42

9

Lawrence

4.42

35.09

12:35:54

10

Finish – Common

1.81

36.90

End of 2nd Loop and Ultra

12:54:00

 

Here’s What I’ll Do For You

This run is fully supported. Snacks. Drinks. A car ride back if your big boy/girl pants fall off. We take your picture at every border in case nobody believes you. Good snacks too, like Gummy Bears, Pringles, PBJs, Motrin (yes, that’s a snack at this distance), Beef Jerky, and any other comfort food you like if you put in your order by Friday COB. Nobody gets lost (except Thor) and nobody gets hungry or thirsty. And nobody whines. Understand?

 

Weather

It’s going to be perfect out there, like that matters.

 

Do This:

Get up Saturday morning and do something you don’t think you can do. You already know what to wear. Just be there at 6:00. See you then.

 


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