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I didnt Instead I spent half of November drinking beer When I finally bought a pair of running shoes and hit the pavement I was optimistic It was a brisk morning I had some coffee stretched did a few push-ups and off I went
I had to stop at half a mile
But I kept running and after a week I was up to a mile and a half per day I can do this I thought Then my knee started to hurt so I stopped for a week No need to push it When I started running again the other knee began to hurt Then the ankle Then came the holidays
My wife intervened in January "You cant just go run up the side of a mountain" she said "You need to ask a doctor if you can do this"
I did and the news was grim My cholesterol was sky-high: 266 It should have been 200 tops The doctor told me I had to go on medication I refused
Then it snowed and my legs hurt and I didnt train and before I knew it there were only three months left until the race I limped upstairs and got on my wifes treadmill waddling through four or five miles at a time
Eventually I started limping up real hills and stopped eating so much My pants got looser and the pain disappeared I felt great I can do this I thought Even weirder I wanted to do itFOR THIS I BLAME Craig Fleming
Fleming has been race director of the Hyner since its inception Like me hes in his late thirties The son of a paper-mill worker he was a jock in high school but mostly he played basketball After graduating from Penn State he took a job working for a mental-health agency in State College about 60 miles from Renovo
One day back in the late 1990s he was walking in the woods exercising his dog when he encountered something very strange "All of a sudden I see this guy" Fleming says "And this guy is running Hes running in the woods I was like Hey that looks pretty cool Can you do that"
So he started running in the woods with his dog then with his wife then with friends In 2005 he bought an athletic-shoe store in Lock Haven
Lock Haven is home to a state university so there are lots of fitness types around Fleming started a group called the PA Trail Dogs and got involved with the Bald Eagle Megatransect a local 25-mile trail race first held in 2003
Then one day in 2007 a state forester walked into Flemings store with maps "He had this idea that we could do something like the Megatransect up around Renovo" Fleming says "Thats when it started to happen"
Working with the WCSA and other community players Fleming made the thing come together attracting more than 400 runners for the first race By 2011 that number had grown to more than 1000"All of a sudden this area is becoming a mecca for trail running" Fleming says "Now we have an official Grand Slam with the Mega the Hyner the Dam Half/Full Trail Marathon and the Rothrock Challenge People from outside the region are starting to notice"
But thats not what hooked me Whats really cool is to sit down with Werts and Fleming and see two guys from different universes tell you about a dreadlocked kid from the university an old lady from Renovo and a marathon runner from Penn Stateall volunteering to clear trails in the dead of winter A WCSA newsletter calls the race "an experiment in getting Guys and Gals in Camo to stand side by side with the Guys and Gals in Spandex to create a unified and powerful force"
I wanted to be part of that and as I got into it I wanted something more: to become a serious trail runnerA WEEK BEFORE THE RACE my wife sent me back to the doctor He didnt recognize me From early February to early April Id lost 31 pounds (down from 225) and slashed my cholesterol by 25 percent I still had a week to train so I trained hard
Alas everything fell apart I made the obvious mistake of trying to run through pains in my right ankle and knee which made the injuries worse The doctor injected a steroid into my knee It didnt help Then he prescribed a pain medication that didnt work So I called a guy I know and scored some Vicodin
The first leg of the racewith two soothing Vicodin coursing through my systemwas tolerable enough a flat stretch across a bridge and down a road Then I tried to pick up my pace and nearly collapsed from stabbing pain in both knees and ankles By the time we got to the uphill trail I was stuck in the traffic jam with the rest of the plodders
I made it to the top of the first hill where a guy wearing Dockers and a pair of loafers passed me like I was standing still A couple of old ladies stopped to ask me if I was OK I lied and they left me in their dust
I did reasonably well on the uphill sections; I even passed a few people But going down was a disaster I fell a few times when my ankle couldnt bear my weight At one point I was fighting back tears I thought about quitting but at that stage I was eight miles deep in the woods Near the end a roundish fortysomething guy passed me on the right then stopped and turned around
"Hey" he said "I started right next to you" He looked familiar but I couldnt manage a response
"Youve been limping like that since the first step of the race"
"Yeah" I said
"You trail-running guys are crazy" he said with a huge grin "Thats hardcore Congratulations"
The winner of the 2010 Hyner Challenge a guy from Carlisle Pennsylvania finished in 2 hours and 22 minutes The guy in second from Portland Oregon finished about two minutes later I staggered home in 6 hours and 21 minutes 754th out of the 904 people who completed the race And I was in agony
Fortunately my wife and my sisters were on hand to lend support (and heckle) One of my sisters had been taking pictures of all the people who finished ahead of me like the nine-year-old boy who crushed me by half an hour "There was even a guy with a prosthetic leg" my sister said "He finished about 20 minutes ago"
"Thats Ray" I said "Thats awesome" And I meant it Then I hobbled off and got a beerTHE NEXT DAY I couldnt walk so I went back to the doctor The first diagnosis was chondromalacia patella a softening of the kneecap cartilage that often strikes teenage girls during puberty "Its usually when their hips start to widen" he said
I demanded a second opinion in the form of an X-ray Thank God I did since I didnt want to be felled by the worlds most embarrassing sports injury The doctors office called to tell me to stay on the crutches: I had stress fractures There were a series of them in both knees and both ankles
But make no mistake if you run the Hyner or limp through it things change In the months since I have recruited an unlikely coalition of factory workers barflies and old ladies to organize a similar event in the woods around Ridgway Only we want ours to be longer with even steeper hills
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