ErieTom
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Reply with quote | #16 |
7/25 at 7 AM is our next group training run at Oil Creek S.P. if you can make it there then Gale ! I won't be there on Sunday 7/26. Info / directions here on our race website's training run page.
I'll look for your van / kayak on Sunday morning too at the half.
-- Tom --
Cell: 814-873-2082
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gale813
Registered: 01/18/06
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Reply with quote | #17 |
The half was awesome as usual! It was a pleasure meeting you, Tom!! I'll let you know what I think of the terrain later this week! 
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ErieTom
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Looking forward to how you liked it Gale, and which section(s) of the Gerard hiking trail you were on !
And it was nice to meet you too at the half on Sunday!
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gale813
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Reply with quote | #19 |
Rain and our brakes going out on us made hiking an impossibility. 
I'd like to come up for a training hike with you guys to see what it's like before I make my decision. Do you have training hikes regularly? Are they listed on the web site?
Talked to a guy at the Oil Heritage Festival from one of the local radio stations (I talk to everybody)... LOL. He asked me if I was going to do the 100. I said maybe the 50K. He said he was going to be volunteering and asked if I knew you!! I said that I met you at the HM in Erie. Small world... LOL!! 
If I get down here to hike again, is it the Gerard Hiking Trail that I will be looking for?? BF promised to bring me back since we couldn't hike.
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ErieTom
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Yikes on the brakes going out on you ! Good grief, thank goodness you are ok !
Our next group run is August 8th. Not many locals will be there as there is a marathon / half marathon the next morning in Titusville, but some out-of-town & out-of-state folks are planning on attending the 8th.
Our canceled group run this 7/25 morning turned out to have NINE show up when just a few days ago I thought there was only going to be just 2 or 3 of us. On Friday afternoon I found out about another 3 or 4 that was planning on attending, so it ended up being a group run after all and I went there early to put out water and mark the course in a few key spots so the faster runners wouldn't get lost.
Hope you can make it on the 8th. Not sure when our next run after that will be as I'm busy for a few of the other Aug weekends.
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gale813
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I think I've gotten a friend of mine lined up to drive me up to Oil City a week from Saturday to check out the course with you guys!!  I needed to find someone or spend the nite as it's about 2 1/2 hours away (I'll get little sleep as it is... LOL). If I have problems with directions, I have your cell phone number. I will mapquest it and I also have a GPS unit. I'm excited!! 
The break incident was pretty scary. We went up the hill to take pics of that church that you can see from town. We got almost to the top and the breaks started grinding BAD. Well, we still had to come back down!!! Man, I was holding my breath!!!!!!!
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ErieTom
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Gale -
I hope you can make it this Saturday morning! If you can't make it by 7 AM, let me know and maybe I can hang around and take you on a personal tour of some of the trails to whet your appetite,
The race is filling up fast, we'll sell out I'd say - perhaps before the next price increase on Aug 17th. We only have 46 spots remaining total in the 3 races.
Frank-
Congrats on your BR100 finish, it was great meeting you finally (twice) at the Covered Bridge aid station ! 25:35 is faaaaast ! CONGRATS !!!
ErieTom
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gale813
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I have one major concern. How steep are the hills? I am not real good with steep hills, especially without a hiking stick. Are they pretty doable without one? This has me really worried. I could see me just sitting at the bottom of a hill waiting for a helicopter to take me out of there!! I'm dead serious here!! It's the one thing that has me really nervous. Depending on the answer to this question, I have a friend who has volunteered to drive me down and wait on Saturday morning. Another friend of mine might try the trail with me as well. Right now the plan is to leave Cleveland at 4AM. Don't know if we would be up for the full 16 mile loop (especially with our "ride" waiting in the car) but if you could give us a nice taste of the trail or suggest a shorter route so we could see what it would be like, that would be great!
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ErieTom
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Some of the hills are rather steep - see the COURSE page on the race website - OilCreek100.org - for elevation profiles. You can use a hiking stick if you like for the training run, and for the race if you like. I'm not opposed to hiking sticks... you are still covering the distance on foot. Think about the Buckeye trail's tougher sections.
There is a 12 mile loop at the north end of the park at Jersey Bridge, but I don't know of anyone starting there yet. Perhaps if you gave me time to get the other runners off on their 16 / 28 mile loop from the Egbert Farm picnic pavilion, I could be at that Jersey Bridge parking lot (near Drake Well museum) by say 8 AM to take you around that 12 mile loop. It will take us a good 3 hours to do that 12 mile loop.
Or you could run with us from Egbert Farm at 7 AM to Cow Run shelter (restroom) which is perhaps 5 miles and then turn around and head back for about 10 miles total.
Let me know what you think.
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gale813
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Reply with quote | #25 |
The 12 miler sounds good. That way, you would be with me/us and I wouldn't be so worried about hills or getting lost. Plus, it would give us an extra hour. My friend wouldn't have a problem waiting 3 hours in the car (what a trooper)!! Is there an address or something so that I can mapquest and GPS it??
You have been SO nice, Tom!! Thank you SO much!!
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ErieTom
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The 50K & 50 miler are now sold out - only 15 slots remain in the 100 miler. Sorry Gale and anyone else that was thinking of doing one of the shorter distances this year at it. :-( Email me if you want to be put on the waiting list just in case...
Erie Tom
Tom Jennings, RD
rd_oc100@yahoo.com
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