{"id":38099,"date":"2020-04-04T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=38099"},"modified":"2020-04-04T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T20:26:21","slug":"april-4-2020-revel-mt-charleston-cancelled-so-im-solo-marathoning-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=38099","title":{"rendered":"April 4, 2020 – Revel Mt. Charleston Cancelled… so I’m solo-marathoning again"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was going to be a sub-3 hour effort. I was hoping to break 3 for the first time ever. The course was a massive downhill and it seemed like an opportunity not to be missed. So I paid the exorbitant fee for a Revel race, famed for their PR and BQ friendly courses. But COVID had other ideas.<\/p>\n

The race was cancelled a few weeks ago and I got (mostly) refunded the AirBNB and rental car fees I had pre-booked. But that still left 26.2 miles of unfinished travel.<\/p>\n

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And so, just as I’ve done the previous few weekends, I rose early on a Saturday and went out alone into the darkness, running my silly little self-isolating marathon.\u00a0 Sometimes I think I’m just trying to outrun the depression that this whole situation causes — it comes in waves and some days it just all feels so very, very overwhelming.\u00a0 This morning was one of those days where I was lying in bed, unable to sleep and yet unable to rise… until my alarm went off for the start of my remote edition Revel Mt Charleston race.<\/p>\n

I started earlier than usual, and the temperatures were a little less than mercury busting.<\/p>\n

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And I maintained a pretty good clip throughout the loop-de-loops.<\/p>\n

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Mom manned the aid station for me during the 3rd turnaround which was a nice boost.<\/p>\n

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My clock time for Covid Marathon III was better than it’s been, but nowhere near my PR or my aspirational goal of a sub-3 race.<\/p>\n

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Not that it would count in the eyes of the overarching marathoning overlords.\u00a0\u00a0 They have rules about number of starters and finishers, ability for people to register, advertisement of the even for at least one month prior to its running, etc.<\/p>\n

But I find myself constantly thinking of a scene in TAXI, the classic sitcom starring, amongst others, Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito. During a competition to see who’s the better hack (it’s season 2, episode 8, written by Glenn Gordon Caron), Hirsch and DeVito spend the night running fares all over town… and DeVito hustles his fares, taking them long ways round, shoving them in and out of the cab as fast as possible. Hirsch meanwhile gets a fare to Atlantic City or some such that’s a single fare. So while DeVito scores more fares and declares himself the winner… until somebody notices Hirsch counting a wad of cash. Turns out his working joe, nice-guy cabbie ways netted him quite a tidy sum in tips. Do tips count? When the crew decides to ask Andy Kaufmann’s Latka.\u00a0 His answer?\u00a0 “Of course tips count.”<\/p>\n