Ten.....More.....Miles!

Shall we begin?

2010-01-21T09:45:00.000-08:00

My life has been in a shambles and I have really not done justice to the two challenges, but anyone who wants to run the ten more miles challenge this year simply needs to run a 10 miler in January, report it, and get payment in by the end of February. Notice there is a paypal button to make it easier. If you need to send payment by snail mail, let me know and I will post my address. I am not going to require the entry page to be mailed to me this year, because it is a very informal run. Posting your first 10 mile run will signify that you are aware of and accept all liability for your run and yourself. In other words, don't come after me if you get Plantar Fasciitis, or IT Band Syndrome. And your family can't come after me if you run in front of a car, or off a cliff. Get it!? Good. As soon as the people start posting their 10 mile runs to this post, I will build the list of runners in the sidebar for us to keep track of. I apologize that I have not gotten a lot of promo going about this. I will be sending out a check to Kurt O's charity of choice (via him) in the coming week, and a check out to Cody's Crew Foundation which is a cancer charity researching neuroblastoma. Please post your 10 mile runs with some basic details (where run, date, friends?, etc.) to this post for the month of January 10 miler.

So Kurt.....

2009-11-02T15:41:00.000-08:00

We are all waiting and watching to see if you go 110, and then 120 for next month. You have the victory sewn up, but you know there is extra charity money on the line if you can do these runs. This will serve as the post for November where you can report your run WHEN you do it.

October is 100 mile month!

2009-10-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

Here is where you post your 100 mile run...Kurt is done...John?

September is the 90 mile month!

2009-09-15T01:06:00.000-07:00

As Kurt puts in the miles faster than I can post these places for him to comment, I wonder will John Cox match him this month? I will be watching. Great job so far to everyone!

By the way - registration for the One.....More.....Mile! Challenge will open soon. Challenge starts November 1 as popularly voted in. Stay posted.

Two Runners Remain!!! 80 miles this month!

2009-08-12T09:12:00.000-07:00

Posted for the fact that there is an 80mph speed limit in West Texas...I am going to be there next week! And it is the 80 MILE MONTH! Two runners remain unless I have made a mistake...Kurt O, and John C! I know Kurt got his 80 at the BR 100 where he went something like 107 miles, turning around at the finish and running some backwards....John, are you going to keep us watching and get your 80 in!!!???? PLEASE give me a reason to look up a "90" image! :)

A reminder; the One.....More.....Mile! Challenge registration is going to be opening up soon. By popular consensus we will start on November 1st, the same as last year. I had a vote and it won by a long shot.

July 70

2009-07-05T08:53:00.001-07:00

Here is where you post your 70 mile month. We are down to 4 runners. I didn't drop Ed because he did get in his 60. Got to make him at least THINK about running the 70 this month to stay in the challenge.

June is your 60 mile month...

2009-06-03T12:18:00.000-07:00

60 miles this month.

The race and the weather is heating up! With 6 runners left in the game, is anyone going to bag 100 miles in October?

I am going to go on record as stating that if anyone can bag all 12 months (making it to 120 miles in December) I will donate an extra 100 dollars out of my pocket for the charities. Does anyone else want to make a pledge if anyone makes it to 120 miles to add to my 100?

Don't forget runners - you CAN go over 24 hours to get your longer mileage efforts in. You CAN walk. You CAN take breaks (let's say 30 minutes max) like at an aid station...just not a multi-day type effort where you go home, sleep overnight and come back, etc. You CAN take a trailside nap if that is your thing. People do that in 100 milers. It's the honor system and it is for charity, so keep all that in mind. You know your effort.

May 50

2009-04-30T09:59:00.000-07:00

Now that we have reached 50 miles and 10 or less runners, I would like to request that every remaining runner publicly declare their charity on this post as a motivator to keep the fire burning and not quit.

If you are the LAST (Last Athlete Standing Today) who will you direct your half of all the entry fees to go to? It has been a long time since the start of this adventure so I am going to plug our sponsor again - ATAYNE - and the fact that they paid a few race entries for some of us, and they are also donating a shirt to the winner of this shindig. They make responsible performance athletic apparel from recycled materials! Why not check them out and see if you like their stuff?? Just click on the link I put in their name above.

Runner Will Thomas reviewing a trail running watch

2009-04-30T06:20:00.000-07:00

I THINK this is the same Will Thomas in the challenge...tell me if I am wrong Will.

Mohican 50 chance for May

2009-04-29T04:35:00.000-07:00

This is just a shoutout to anyone close enough to Ohio to be interested.

May 30th at 5am there is a group of us going to set out at Mohican to walk for 24 hours straight (which should easily yield 50 miles for anyone in the challenge.) We will finish at 5 am on May 31.

For the first 8 or so hours we will be on the trails used by the Mohican 100 Mountain Bike Race sweeping behind them and picking up any dropped items or trash (should be no trash right?) as well as a few race signs. After we run out of mountain bikers to follow, we will just keep walking, and walking, and walking. We are doing it as a training exercise for 100 milers where most of us have to be on our feet for 24+ hours.

Kurt O. suggested I make a post on here (Good Idea) and invite anyone who wants to join us. Email me (ultragomer@gmail.com) and I can give you parking details and such.

April 40

2009-04-14T11:35:00.001-07:00

OK...took me long enough eh? I went through our list of entrants to see who has dropped out so far besides me...please look to the left for the Runners List and see whom I register as having dropped, either by officially declaring so with me, or by lack of any run reporting in FEB or MAR. If you feel you have been dropped incorrectly, please email me - ultragomer@gmail.com - and state your case. I don't want to kick people out this early on who have been doing the run and maybe didn't get the reporting deal...

Please post your April 40 mile runs here....

MARCH 30 Miles!

2009-03-13T09:30:00.001-07:00

Here is the place for your 30 miler comments! I STILL have to go and verify who has dropped from the challenge to date....I will do it soon, just have been busy and such. Soon! I am searching for the day to do my 30 miler myself!

FEBRUARY 20 MILES!!

2009-01-31T20:34:00.000-08:00

This is the post to comment on for your February mileage.

As I indicated in the comments under January, I wish to allow a 24 hour grace period for the reporting of your January 10 mile run, for those who have not gotten used to this challenge yet. If anyone STRONGLY objects from the field, we will not allow it, but this will be the ONLY month the reporting grace is allowed...it is only fair to those who get it done on time that we honor the deadline the rest of the year.

Also - with the close of the month, we are represented by 21 runners. Two vacant sponsored slots from ATAYNE will just be donated to the total overall, bringing our amount to 230 dollars for the donation to the two worthy charities. Perhaps over the year we can bring in some other non-entry donations and get up to maybe 500 dollars? I have some ideas of whom I might email to try to help that out. We shall see.

Also, I see we are represented by 10 different states and 3 different nations (US included in that 3) WOW! I would like to state it as a personal goal to "sell" this more next year and see if we can't double both of those numbers. It would be fun to see how many continents we can get on board too, we are at two now obviously.

Come on Board Sponsors!!!

2009-01-14T20:48:00.000-08:00

One of our runners (Michael Hall - not listed yet) is associated with an innovative performance clothing maker and has offered a shirt of choice to the runner winning the challenge. ATAYNE - PERFORMANCE WITH A POINT OF VIEW is our first sponsor for the 2009 Ten.....More.....Miles! Challenge. Check out their website to see their line of performance apparel made from recycled materials!

ATAYNE website

On his suggestion I have decided to try to make entry also payable via PayPal. Will that make it easier for some to sign up and participate? You will still have to fill out the entry form and mail it to me. Give me a little time to figure out how to accept payments and I will post about it.

Entries...

2009-01-14T20:10:00.000-08:00

Many, many entry forms are being emailed out...I have had to fly a few days, so I am curious how many will be in my mailbox when I get home! Please keep spreading the word to anyone interested so we can have a nice big field!

Aliens watching the Challenge???

2009-01-07T19:01:00.000-08:00

JANUARY 10 MILES

2009-01-04T09:14:00.000-08:00

This post serves as the point for entered runners to report their runs in the comments. Simply reporting is the requirement, but if you have a moment, please share a few details of your run, where, surface, weather, company with you, etc. etc....whatever you can think of. Was it in a race?

As a reminder, all runs for January have to be posted to comments by January 31 and if you are finding you can't post there for some reason then email me (ultragomer@gmail.com) and I will get it posted for you. Jan. 31 is also the deadline for entry so there is plenty of time to get friends to join us! I will soon find a nice January themed "10" photo to add to this post, the same way I did in the One.....More.....Mile! Challenge.

Updates

2009-01-03T23:47:00.000-08:00

I have had many requests via email so far for entries which haven't turned into mailed entries in my box yet, but should soon. I suspect the holidays have slowed some, but the ranks should swell some soon....

As a reminder the entry deadline is January 31st, so there is plenty of time, but you have to have your entry in, your 10 miler done, AND posted to comments by January 31st to be in the Challenge...if your entry form is a day or two late that can be overlooked as long as I get an email, but the run MUST be done and posted to comments prior to midnight Jan. 31st (your local time zone) to be in the Challenge.

Today, I welcome Frederick Davis III to the Challenge as he entered at the Art Moore FA50 dinner in person! I know he ran his 10 today, in fact 31!

Awaiting Rob Powell's entry as he requested it, and just hasn't mailed it in, but he ran 40 today.

I am hoping for as many runners to participate as possible, that is what makes this fun, but also hoping some that do will spread the word and encourage others to join in! To get an entry, or email me with questions or such send it to ultragomer@gmail.com

The entry is available...

2008-12-21T22:13:00.000-08:00

I have the entry all prepped. Email me at ultragomer@gmail.com and I will return your email with the entry document attached to print out and mail in the entry.

The entry into this challenge will only be 10 dollars as a reminder, NOT 20. (as a reminder for those who ran the One.....More.....Mile! Challenge.) I will seek some kind of sponsorship in the coming weeks to see if we can get some kind of prize package for whomever enters and wins this.

I am also toying with the idea of making shirts available on cafepress.com with the ten.....more.....miles! logo on them...and maybe a checklist of the months...what does everyone think? Would you want one? If I do make them (and it is easy) the markup will be rock bottom like 2.50 per shirt, and I will just include that in the money to the charities at the end. Let me know by comment or email if you think you might get a shirt so I can judge whether I should take the time creating them.

Remember this is a year long (hopefully) challenge where you add 10 miles to your long run each month, starting with 10 miles in January...I think most runners I know will make it through March with no problem, but then after that....who knows? If we get at least 10 registered runners, then I will add in the amount of money for whatever the longest month run is by the winner...so if anyone makes it the whole year, I will add 120 dollars to the total...I plan on giving my 50% of the total money earned to a cancer charity this time around to honor my Mom. Probably American Cancer Society, but maybe Livestrong. In the next year, I can see who does the most substantive work for cancer patients.

I would like to start hearing some discussion about this challenge if people are thinking they are going to participate. The entry deadline (and for the 10 mile run too...) is January 31st. I hope everyone won't wait til the last minute if you are going to play.

Let It Begin

2008-12-14T11:48:00.000-08:00

I had stated on the One.....More.....Mile! Challenge site that I am going to open up a Ten.....More.....Miles! Challenge for the year of 2009. The basic premise is that to enter you must sign up (and enter your first 10 mile run) by the end of January 2009. Same as the One.....More.....Miles! Challenge, all money for entry will go to charities, split between the winner and myself as far as choosing the charities. It just seems appropriate that the entry fee for the TEN more miles challenge be ten dollars, so that is what it is, and hopefully we get a higher volume of runners to compensate for the very low entry fee. How many races can you run for 10 dollars? Come on!

I will post an entry form online within the next week or so for interested runners/walkers to fill out and mail in.

The running premise is that you must run a long run of 10 miles in January and 10 miles longer each successive month. The run can be a part of any race, or training...you CAN walk the distance as long as it is consecutive. As the mileage increases past 50, I think it might even be appropriate that a nap is allowed, the same way ultrarunners nap in 100 mile races sometimes, as long as you get up and run right after...

I want people to remember when you enter races like 5ks, marathons, ultras, you very rarely expect to "win" (at least most of us fall into that category) so please consider signing up to send a small ten dollars to charity and join the group of people running each month as long as you can!

I want to put down another challenge right now, that starts now. I need as many neat images of the world with the numbers 10-120 in ten digit increments as possible so that I can come up with neat posts for the challenge as 2009 progresses. If you have any such images to email me so that I might use them, send them to ultragomer@gmail.com.

All constructive criticism is welcome if anyone has any to offer!