Man, running 40 miles is hard. It’s even harder when you’re sliding around in 3 inches of snow, slush, and mud. This is the fifth year that I’ve run the race (prior reports here, here, and here) and I was looking forward to testing out the 2019 version of my fitness on the course. Unfortunately,…
2018 Naked Bavarian 40 Mile Race Report
The best laid plans of mice and ultrarunners . . . I’ve been struggling with the motivation to write this race report. Part of it has to do with my performance (not my best). Part of it is that I’ve already written two reports on this race so don’t have a lot of original things…
2018 Naked Bavarian 40 Miler Preview
It’s a little hard for me to believe, but this will be my fourth time running this event. My last two race reports can be found here (for some reason I never wrote one for 2015) and I included a decent course description in last year’s race preview post. There are quite a few reasons…
2017 Naked Bavarian 40 Mile Race Report
I’m driving over to the race start Saturday morning watching the outside temperature drop from 20 degrees to 17 to 15 degrees. I was giving my wife who was running the 20 mile race the play-by-play, but I don’t think she was enjoying it too much. Needless to say, there wasn’t much socializing before the…
2017 Naked Bavarian 40 Miler Preview
They say the third time’s a charm and it would be pretty cool if that was the case. I’ve done this race in each of its first 2 years of existence (2016 race report) and can’t wait to go back again. It’s weird because when I first started reading about ultras, I would see people go…
2016 Naked Bavarian 40 Mile Race Report
What: Naked Bavarian 40 Miler When: Sunday March 6, 2016 8am Where: Leesport, PA Time: 8:11:57 Place: 55 of 99 Well, Sunday didn’t turn out quite how I had planned it. I thought I could easily cut 15-20 minutes off last year’s time and I only ended up 1 minute 14 seconds faster due to…
Naked Bavarian 40 Mile Preview
It’s off to Blue Marsh Lake in Leesport, PA Sunday for the second annual Naked Bavarian 40 Mile run. I did this race last year and am looking forward to running it again. The race is organized by Uberendurancesports, which puts on some of southeastern PA’s best races. I’ve done a number of their races…