The MRC would like to recognize some of the great bloggers who contribute to the Utah Ultrarunning community. Following the "Best of" theme of the past few posts, the next post will be on the "Best Blog post of 2012" by a Utah blogger with running significance. While we definitely have our idea of the best posts of the year, we are sure that there are many, many stories out there that we haven't read, and would like to provide the chance for you to shamelessly shed some light on your own writing skills, or give someone else a shout out.
Please give us your suggestions for the Best Blog Post of the Year, and we'll review and nominate our completely biased selections in a few days.
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Andy Sherpas(Dorais) Salt Lake Skyline posts and Video.
Jared Campbell Barkley Report.
I have watched the Skyline Video at least a dozen times.
If I could nominate a single blogged phrase, it would be a tidbit from Ben Lewis' Wasatch report;
"To risk invoking the tired metaphor of psychedelics and the overused, quasi-mystical, pseudo-spiritual, and soft-headed Merry-Prankster associations thereof, if a track event provides the equivalent of the brief dissociation following inhalation of nitrous oxide, a 100 mile run is a prolonged, epic, frightening, brain-scrambling, and ultimately world-altering LSD trip. Words can elude."
However I think I'd prefer to nominate LEWIS! for his reflections on pacing Jared Campbell at hardrock:
http://ben-runlong.blogspot.com/2012/07/reflections-on-pacing-and-making-and.html
i definitely loved the 2012 wasatch 100 race report of ben lewis...
http://ben-runlong.blogspot.com/2012_09_01_archive.html
Thanks for the votes Chris and Sarah! I would like to second Jared Campbell's Barkley report, the Dorais brothers' Salt Lake Skyline posts as well as add Matt Hart's 'What I Read' series. Hard not to nominate many MRC posts over the past year as well- are these included?
Nobody can come close to Ben's blog posts! The following is one of my favorite paragraphs from when he paced my sorry ass. :)
"And yet despite this gaping distance there is an intimacy in being invited to be here, in this strange proximity to another's suffering and vulnerability. You can't touch the core but you can mitigate some of the surface details. Crackers seemed to help."
I too vote for Ben but my favorite post was his Wasatch 100 report. The following excerpt has led me to enter the lottery this year.
"We were talking about this and that, the temperature was perfect, the stars were out, I was with the love of my life: it was a truly special night and I kept pinching myself telling myself to remember this. I felt so lucky to be out here, running the last stretch of the Wasatch 100 with my wife, and feeling totally great. While I haven't done many of these things I knew that the way I was feeling was unusual and lucky."
I hope to be lucky too...
Ben- MRC posts are not included, although if they were, one would have to involve Greg's photo's. they are most excellent.
Everyone else-great suggestions, I hope we get a few more, and there seems to be a theme evolving.
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