{"id":11545,"date":"2010-06-05T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/13-k-copper-crawl-hill-climb-miami-arizona\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T17:29:53","slug":"13-k-copper-crawl-hill-climb-miami-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/13-k-copper-crawl-hill-climb-miami-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Recent Trail Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.active.com\/running\/miami-az\/copper-crawl-5k-and-13k-hill-run-2010\"><font face=\"Georgia\">13 K Copper Crawl Hill Climb, Miami, Arizona<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Saturday morning April 17 found me toiling up the side of a mountain above the mining town of Miami, Arizona about 40 miles east of here on <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Route_60\"><font face=\"Georgia\">U. S. 60<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">. The race is part of Miami&#39;s annual Boom Town Spree.&#0160; A great experience start to finish, from leaving the house at 5:35 AM to arriving safely home again six hours later.&#0160; A tough but interesting course mainly over dirt roads up, up, up into the foothills of the Pinal Mountains.&#0160; Out and back, with the turnaround point at Warnica Springs in the Tonto National Forest.&#0160; The race started from downtown near the corner of Live Oak and Adonis.&#0160; Great support, T-shirt, goodie bag,&#0160;not to mention the &#0160;complimentary pancake breakfast and sports massage.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I enjoy the on-the-fly camaraderie of running events.&#0160; One has conversations, some of them unforgettable for a lifetime, with people many of whom&#0160;one will &#0160;never see again.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gila1019.com\/Uploads\/SunriseChallenge.pdf\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Round Mountain Sunrise Challenge, Globe, Arizona<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, National Trails Day, 5 June 2010<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I left the house at 4 AM, arrived at the trailhead in Globe around 5:15.&#0160; Gun went off at 6.&#0160; A very challenging 5 K (3.1 mile) rocky course through and over boulders and dry streambeds with plenty of elevation change.&#0160; Not even a worldclass trail runner could have negotiated the whole of this sucker at a run.&#0160; A delightful course nonetheless with scenic views and a friendly coterie of local diehards.&#0160; I took third place in the 60+ category.&#0160; (And yes, there were more than three in that category!)&#0160; But I had to pour it on at the end to keep from being overtaken by a crusty one-eyed 75 year old.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">What Colin Fletcher says of hiking is equally true of running, especially trail running: It is &quot;. . . a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.&quot; (<strong>The Complete Walker III<\/strong>, p. 3)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 K Copper Crawl Hill Climb, Miami, Arizona Saturday morning April 17 found me toiling up the side of a mountain above the mining town of Miami, Arizona about 40 miles east of here on U. S. 60. The race is part of Miami&#39;s annual Boom Town Spree.&#0160; A great experience start to finish, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/13-k-copper-crawl-hill-climb-miami-arizona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Recent Trail Runs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}