This is pretty cool, especially in my current state of condition, ie. not very good shape, and finding it hard to believe that I’ve completed some of the events that I’ve participated in in the past.\u00a0 This is recently released list from National Geographic of what they consider the Top Ten Toughest Races…<\/p>\n
\u00a0http:\/\/adventure.nationalgeographic.com\/2009\/03\/top-ten-toughest-races-text<\/a><\/p>\n What is cool, is that I’ve participated in 3 of these events.\u00a0 Badwater, Furnace Creek 508 and Barkley.\u00a0 I was entered in Barkley again this year, but had to drop from the start list, I just did not do the things I needed to do to be ready for it.\u00a0\u00a0 More to come on that situation shortly.\u00a0 The Barkley\u00a0event will take place this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0In any case, as an endurance athlete, I can’t help but feel pretty good that when an independent group comes up with what they believe\u00a0to be\u00a0the most difficult endurance events in the world, that I can say I’ve been right in the thick of it, participating in 3 of the 10.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0I have friends that have participated in a few of the others, we’re all just a bunch of nuts I suppose.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0Reports from some of those events…<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.daveharper.com\/photos\/2005BadwaterReport\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.daveharper.com\/2006Badwater\/2006BadwaterRR.htm<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.daveharper.com\/Barkley\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=25<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=57<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=54<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is pretty cool, especially in my current state of condition, ie. not very good shape, and finding it hard to believe that I’ve completed some of the events that I’ve participated in in the past.\u00a0 This is recently released list from National Geographic of what they consider the Top Ten Toughest Races… \u00a0http:\/\/adventure.nationalgeographic.com\/2009\/03\/top-ten-toughest-races-text<\/a> What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}