{"id":58,"date":"2007-10-13T04:26:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T11:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-10-19T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T23:14:36","slug":"finally-back-home-and-getting-caught-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Finally back home and getting caught up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I am finally home, and managed to take care of most of the ‘must do’ items that were awaiting my return.\u00a0 I’ve uploaded several photos from Furnace Creek in\u00a0my Photo Gallery with some explaination for each.\u00a0http:\/\/daveharperphotos.irun100s.com\/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=43192<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0While I was in California, my Dad was having some issues of his own, and during my time away, he had chest pains, went to Dr. for tests, scheduled and had open heart surgury to bypass two 70% clogged arteries, with a third completely closed.\u00a0\u00a0 Uh, ok, he was fine\u00a0 before I left. \u00a0He is otherwise in excellent health\u00a0and\u00a0never had an actual heart attack or\u00a0damage to his heart\u00a0( he walks a couple\/three hours every day)\u00a0and is recovering wonderfully.\u00a0 Though I’ve not been able to visit, as I’ve been sick myself and can’t chance being near him.<\/p>\n

I’ve been very sick since the event, with sinus and lung congestion\/coughing.\u00a0 I suspect I was actually getting sick as the race was beginning.\u00a0 My family had been all circulating a very bad cold for the last couple weeks, and I’d avoided getting it, I thought.\u00a0 I think I was actually becoming ill as the race was starting, and this was part of my problem with lack of strength\/energy.\u00a0 That is pretty much how I felt, weak, achy, tired, even though I was trying to ride 500 miles.\u00a0 The cold air, especially at night, just made things worse and started a cough that really hampered my efforts.\u00a0 In any event, it’s over now, I rode 300 plus miles\u00a0with 200 of it into headwinds, and\u00a0much of it uphill and on horrible, rough, slow pavement.\u00a0\u00a0I’m rather glad to have it behind me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Everyone wants to know “what’s next”, and I’ve yet to have anyone believe my answer, “Nothing”.\u00a0 I am pretty much finished with the ultra events for now.\u00a0 I’ve accomplished everything I could imagine, in fact, much more that I ever would have dreamed I was capable of doing.\u00a0 Two Western States 100’s in a row, Three Badwater 135’s in a row(one of them 10 days after doing WS 100).\u00a0 A total of 7 100 mile or more completions,\u00a0four 100 Kilometer runs(62 miles),\u00a0seven 50 milers, 10 50k’s plus pacing for 50 miles on three occasions\u00a0for friends in 100 mile runs, and most all of these done out West in snow, or high altitude, and with tremendous amounts of climbing.\u00a0 Just prior to all that, I completed six Ironman distance Triathlons(2.4 mile swim\/112 mile bike\/26.2 mile run).\u00a0 I’m proud of what I’ve done, and am at a point that I’m ready to move on to new challenges and adventures.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, two days after FC508, after getting\u00a0my bicycles and equipment packed and shipped home, I had time to do some hiking\/running near crew Steve’s house outside of Los Angeles.\u00a0 I did 3 1\/2 hours in some very cool mountains, some photos of that are in the photo gallery, including a find of some clam type seashell fossils in the trail.\u00a0 These fossils where at about 1,100 foot elevation and 8-10 miles from the ocean, but they are clearly from a time when they were under the ocean, very cool photo of them in the gallery.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Thank you so much for all the well wishes and encouragment during my event.\u00a0 I appreciate it more than you know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I am finally home, and managed to take care of most of the ‘must do’ items that were awaiting my return.\u00a0 I’ve uploaded several photos from Furnace Creek in\u00a0my Photo Gallery with some explaination for each.\u00a0http:\/\/daveharperphotos.irun100s.com\/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=43192<\/a> \u00a0While I was in California, my Dad was having some issues of his own, and during my time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}