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Chobot Challenge Trail Race and 200-miler notes

I consider the Chobot Challenge a good benchmark trail race - it has just about anything you'd want:
1) Technical, but not too technical
2) Creek crossings
3) Long climbs
4) Scenic
5) Well marked and directed

I just wish I could have run it faster!  But, I did run 14 miles yesterday and about 150 miles in the past two weeks, so perhaps I shouldn't be too hard on myself.

This will probably be my last note for a while.  I leave on Friday for Australia to run the Unreasonable EAST 200, followed by the Sydney Marathon three weeks later.

I don't see a tracking link yet, but if you are interested in following my progress during the 5-day race, it will probably appear by race day at   The start time is 11 AM, Tuesday the 20th, Australian Eastern Standard Time.

If you do play "Follow The Dots", let me know!  I need all the pressure of knowing that people will be watching to keep me going when the going gets tough.  I rate my odds as 50/50.  I have a swollen knee to contend with, and my base pace might be so slow that I can't stay ahead of the cutoffs, the generous 5-day cutoff notwithstanding. My last successful completion of a 200-mile race was six years ago.

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