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El Paso Marathon

February 13, 2023Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

El Paso Marathon

Date: 2023-02-12
Location: El Paso, TX
Finish Time: 3:48:30
Race Website
Official Results

Highlights:

• Carlsbad Caverns National Park
• Guadalupe Mountains National Park
• Perfect weather, flat course, smart pace really helps mitigate any potential altitude related issues

Low-lights:

• Not the best Super Bowl viewing experience

Thanks:

• To Shannon for continuing to let me skip town to explore national parks and run marathons

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Guadalupe Mountains National Park

February 13, 2023Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Date: 2023-02-11
State: Texas
Visitors: Scott

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

February 13, 2023Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Date: 2023-02-11
State: New Mexico
Visitors: Scott

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New York City Marathon (2022)

November 7, 2022Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

New York City Marathon (2022)

Date: 2022-11-06
Location: New York, NY
Finish Time: 4:41:48
Race Website

Highlights:

• Beautiful day for a boat ride
• Beautiful day for a run
• Back home in time for dinner

Low-lights:

• Not many.  Hot and humid, I guess.

Thanks:

• The Newtons (Dori & Jim) for company in the start corral and support in Brooklyn
• To Dave, for yet another year of top level support from the corner of 81st & 1st
• To Cem, who knows what he did

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Great NY State Marathon

October 17, 2022Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Great NY State Marathon

Date: 2022-10-16
Location: Syracuse, NY
Finish Time: 3:54:42
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Beautiful day for a football game, packed Dome and the we managed to not jinx the Orange
• Beautiful day for a run, managed to get it in under 4 hrs
• Beautiful day for a fall fest, kids still young enough to enjoy all that Roba’s has to offer

Low-lights:

• Not everyone was as excited about the Cuse as I was
• Old and slow, out-kicked by Dylan at the line

Thanks:

• To Shannon for another Syracuse / Marathon centric weekend
• To Erin for house sitting / watching our Eli for the weekend

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Olympic National Park

August 28, 2022Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Olympic National Park

Date: 2022-08-25
State: Washington
Visitors: Scott

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ET Full Moon Marathon

August 15, 2022Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

ET Full Moon Marathon

Date: 2022-8-13
Location: Rachel, NV
Finish Time: 4:44:25
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Checked off a pretty remote National Park (Bristlecone Trail, Glacier Trail, Alpine Lake Trail, Baker Creek Trail and Lehman Caves)
• So many silly Area 51, UFO, ET related landmarks
• Finally, another use for all that night running gear I bought for various Ragnars

Low-lights:

• The truth was out there, unfortunately that truth was that I’m old and slow
• Saw a grand total of 0 UFOs
• If you start to walk the desert flies attack

Thanks:

• To Shannon for once again letting me run off on my own to some strange place in the middle of nowhere

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Great Basin National Park

August 15, 2022Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Great Basin National Park

Date: 2022-08-12
State: Nevada
Visitors: Scott

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Virgin Islands National Park

July 5, 2022Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Virgin Islands National Park

Date: 2022-07-02
State: US Virgin Islands
Visitors: Scott

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Red Island State Half Marathon

May 19, 2022Uncategorizedscottwmoran@gmail.com

Red Island State Half Marathon

Date: 2022-05-17
Location: Warwick, RI
Finish Time: 1:43:11
Official Results
Race Website

Highlights:

• Fox Harb’r, Cabot Cliffs, Cabot Links, Kebo Valley – So much pre-race golf
• Training run tour of Stephen King Derry sites (Paul Bunyan, the Standpipe, that sewer on the corner of Jackson and Union, the Barrens)
• Warm-up runs through two National Parks (One US, One Canadian)

Low-lights:

• Still not very good at golf and apparently I got Covid at some point

Thanks:

• Shannon for granting permission for a guys golf getaway that coincided with her birthday
• The weather gods who allowed us to comfortably get in 6 rounds in Nova Scotia in May
• The New England Challenge team for hosting an event on the random Wednesday morning that I was in Rhode Island

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