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Always striving to push my limits and see how good my best is.

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• Athletic Summary
• Upcoming Events


• Adventure Racing
• October 22-24, USARA Nationals, Pilot Point TX
• 2009 Fall Sprint; Story Indiana
• 2009 Indianapolis Adventure Race, (2nd Overall)
• 2009 Thunder Rolls 24 Hr AR, (2nd Overall)
• 2009 PA Urban Sprint, (1st Overall)
• 2009 Midget AR, (1st division)
• 2009 Mission 18 Hr AR, (1st Overall)
• 2009 Planet Adventure Sprint, (1st Coed, 2nd Overall)
• 2009 LBL Challenge 24Hr, (5th Coed, 5th Overall)
• 2008 PA Sprint Redux
• 2008 Indianapolis Adventure Race, (1st Coed, 4th Overall)
• 2008 PA Urban Sprint (2nd Coed, 2nd Overall)
• 2008 Infiterra Adventure Rage 30 hr (7th)
• 2008 Odyssey Wild, Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (4th overall)
• 2007 PA Urban Sprint; Indianapolis, IN (2nd coed, 2nd overall)
• 2007 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (1st premier)
• 2007 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Tell City, IN (5th co-ed,7th overall)
• 2007 Sunflower 24 hr; Lawrence, KS (13th overall)
• 2006 Adventure Rage 30Hr; Cadillac, MI (8th overall)
• 2006 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 15-Hr; (1st Male, 4th Overall)
• 2006 PA Sprint; Brown County, IN (2nd co-ed, 3rd overall)
• 2006 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Leavenworth, IN (17th overall)
• 2005 Indianapolis Adventure Race (2nd Division, 3rd Overall)
• 2005 PA Sprint; Valley Branch, IN (2nd Division, 5th Overall)
• 2004 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis (10th division)
• 2004 PA Sprint; Clark State Forest, IN (1st Division, 2nd Overall)
• 2004 PA 24 Hr Challenge; Owen-Outman Counties, IN (15th Overall)
• 2003 Midwest Fury; French Lick, IN (1st overall)
• 2003 Wild Scallion; Chicago (10th Division)
• 2003 Indianapolis Adventure Race; Long Course (10th Overall)
• 2003 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis
• 2003 Benchmark Appalachian; Portsmouth, OH (2nd Division, 18th Overall)


• Orienteering & Rogaines
• 2009 ICO Orienteering Meet, Story, IN
• 2009 Conquer the Crossroads Rogaine, (1st, 6hr course)
• 2006 ICO 12 Hour Rogaine - Brownstown, IN (4th overall)
• 2005 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (1st Overall)
• 2004 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (3rd Division, 7th overall)
• 2004 Indianapolis Metrogaine (3 hour)


• Running
• 2009 TNT 5k; Horizon Camp, 8th
• 2009 Dances with Dirt; Gnawbone, IN
• 2007 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
• 2003 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
• 2003 River to River Stage Run (Illinois)
• 2002 Chicago Marathon
• 1998-2005 Indianapolis mini marathon


• Cycling
• 2009 Three State Three Mountain Century; Chattanooga, TN
• 2009 Brown County State Park Road Race


• Other
• Downhill skiing since 1990
• Climbing and mountaineering since 1992

Mike Garrison

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Limited Success

My goal was simple for the TNT 5k Tuesday night. Run well enough to not embarrass myself and incur the ridicule of my "friends" and teammates. I'm not a runner per se, so I didn't think it would be too hard to do that. I feel like I actually ran a pretty respectable race and my legs didn't bother me near as much as I anticipated.

Mission accomplished.

Right?

Wrong.

This photo was circulated as part of a friendly caption contest. ------>

I'm not sure if I'm more disappointed that someone makes a shirt that zips down that much in the front, that I chose to wear a shirt that zips down that much in the front, or that I actually zipped it down that much in the front. Plenty of disappointment to go around I suppose. (Pass the gold chains!)

And seriously, does that look like the face of someone having a good time? I apparently spent more time as a child focusing on the "agony of defeat" images than I did the ones for the "thrill of victory".

Despite my failure of avoiding ridicule I did have a great time. It seemed like the nearly 100 other runners had a blast as well. The course was hilly and almost all on wooded trails and the weather managed to hold off for us. Since the course was two laps and wound throughout Horizon's wooded property you had plenty of opportunities to attempt to acknowledge other runners without sacrificing too much oxygen and falling on your face.

I also learned that I have no prayer in keeping pace with real runners on flats and downhills, but I do actually have a fighting chance on the uphills. This was the hilliest race in the series, so I fully expect my performance relative to the field to only go downhill (no pun intended, seriously, I didn't see this until doing my last spelling/grammar check) from here.

Speaking of the series, the next race is in two weeks so go sign up!

I'm going to go practice smiling...

posted by Garrison at 1:00 PM