17. March 2008 by admin.

Hey guys how is it going this fine and beatiful spirng? I am doing ok this week was rather hard for me to run through as in the very beginning of the week I went snorkeling on Sunday with my Girlfriend and caught some sort of stupid sickness from the ocean water that has kept me off of running for almost this entire week. Its really annoying as this is the third time I have been sick this year and my mileage is suffering because of it.. but oh well more 100 milers I guess right? So this week I tried running on monday and did a quick 9 miler because it was too annoyingly hot to go any further, other than that I took it easy working out on toning the body and eating right for the most part this week just trying to make this stupid sickness go away so I can get right back on track t0 my schedule this monday. Hope you all are doing well, and please make a donation today! See ya on the road

-Mr.3000

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10. March 2008 by admin.

Hey guys giving you the Lo-down on March 3rd-9th! So on march 1st of course was my 100 miler and then next day I had work..that was fun I limped around dying and moaning for a couple of hours then got to go home and get some well deserved sleep. Then on Monday, I was feeling great ready to get back into my running routine already but didnt want to try yet at my mom’s request and advice. So then on Tuesday I decided to get together with Tomas my mentor and we went on an easy 5-6 miler around Iron Mountain area. Beatiful San Diego weather lately I might add. We were talking about the newest biggest athletes who were winning the Ironmans these days and we also discussed a training plan to get faster and beat the 3 hour marathon. So with beating a 3 hour marathon on my mind I decided to try and beat the hour and half for the half marathon the next day. So after I got out of lunch during sixth period I went down to the track and ran 53 consecutive laps around the track (most boring run of my life…except for that time on the treadmill…) and I finished 13.1 miles in 1 hour and 27 minutes averaging around 6:45 per mile. The rest of the week, I spent really just recovering and working out (trying to get some more muscle mass to burn on the longer runs..). Then friday came around and I felt like beating myself up so, I did three 5:30 repeat miles my splits were 5:27, 5:29 and 5:33 that crap hurt more than the 100 mile run. Then this weekend I took it easy and just did some biking and swimming switching up the work outs and getting ready to continue the routine for the next week. Well thanks for keeping up and please make a donation today! See you on the road!
-Nick Hollon

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3. March 2008 by admin.

Hey guys just giving you the simple lo-down on my first 100 miler that I did on Saturday 03-01-08. I started off at 3:30 in the morning on saturday ran a 31 mile leg and then took a 30 minute break. Leg 2 was 27 miles and generally easy still at this point only one small wall that was easy to overcome. It had been really easy at this point because a 10:15-11:00 mile pace is like candy to me and just enjoyable. Finally some pain was felt throughout leg 3 which was 24 miles, pounding feet, and some sore muscles but wow do salt pills help out more than ever! All the pain during this leg was very easily manageable and I was on an endorphin high I think for most of this leg so that was pleasant
Finally the leg where I actually felt like holy crap this is tough was leg 4. Again another 24 mile leg starting off at 9:15 at night and ending at 1:45 the next morning. You guys had told me that twilight running was the most difficult and most challenging however, I found it to be the most relieving, cooling part of the run, but previous runs I have done I had ran through night many times before so it wasnt anything new. Anyway the pain, mile 86 haha it was crazy usual physical pain you know wobbling sore knees, muscles that are sore as death, feet that have become one solid callous and so on. The pain I am talking about though was nothing like what I had felt before… It was all in the head all mental.. it was a mental wall. My mom was riding with me on this leg and trying to keep conversation with me so I wouldnt drift away she was asking me things like Nick, “what do you want to do in the future?”, “what is 3+18?” “what is your favorite color?” really stupid simple questions I thought with one part of my brain and I was asking myself “why is she asking me these stupid questions?” However no matter how much I tried I couldnt come up with an answer for my favorite color, or the math question or my future I couldnt remember it was strange and almost scary whatever part of my brain holds memories I guess had fallen asleep already or shutdown…that lasted mile 89 where I took a break at a gas station and ate several candy bars and a Starbucks double shot and then beat the crap out of the last miles hyped on caffeine and sugar…and that was the worst of it, that mental wall. I got back to my car at 1:45am 3-02-08 and was done.. that was it I had run 100 miles in 22 hours and 15 minutes setting myself my new distance PR. It was so much easier than I thought it would be, I have ran marathons that were harder, but none the less I am doing nothing but chilling and recovering this next couple fo days.. So nextly I’ll enter in an official trail run 100 and try my luck there. Cool well thanks for the advice guys and hopefully our paths will cross soon in future races! -Nick Hollon (P.S. any good 100 milers out here in San Diego besides the San Diego endurance 100 later in June?) I will also have pics for this up and hopefully funny captions following them. (If I dont get the pics up they can be viewed on www.myspace.com/3000forthecure just click view pics and then ya read the captions their hilarious)

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3. March 2008 by admin.

So ya judging by the title, you have guessed.. I have ran a 100 mile run. This is true, and this is how it came about. I was talking with Joe Decker and he said next weekend he wanted to do a 100 mile run on Saturday if he could get things worked out. So I asked my mom, and she was like “sure if Joe is doing it, he is a good guy and highly professional”. So I was like sweet! I am totally running a 100 miler this weekend. So I prepared the week accordingly. I ran four miles on monday and that was it, for the whole week of running. Then the rest of the week I worked like hell on my abs, lower back, upper back just trying to build a really strong core before attempting this run. I also worked out a ton on my leg muscles doing upwards of 600+ lunges of doom over the week (stupid lunges..they make your butt hurt..) So then ya anyway with the run, Joe e-mailed me again early in the week saying that he couldnt do it this weekend and that instead he was going to run a 50 miler on thursday starting off at 7:00 at night and running until 7:00 the next morning in the Cuyamaca Mountains. I thought, “damn thats uhm crazy and kinda weird..” (He was running at night because its the most challenging part of a run to get through apparently.) So I asked my mom if I could join him on that, She said no because I had school on friday. So I was like ok, uhm can I run to long beach? (which is 100 miles away from San Diego) She said ya, only if I have a crew of min. two people with me the whole time and I have to have the thing completly planned out to the point where mile by mile I know my calorie intake and loss. So I agreed. Then friday rolled around and my friends that were going to crew for me, flaked out on me! (it happens all the time though..) So I was talking with my friends Phil and  Sean in Civics and was like alright so would you guys be able to join me if I kept the run local and just did four different marathons in four different directions? Then they agreed that, they would be able to crew for me if I did that. So I spent the rest of the day re-routing and preparing a run stationed in Canyonside Park and going North, South, East and West for 100 miles. So that was how this run came about last minute…and this is its story…..

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3. March 2008 by admin.

So I got back from my trip to Saleen Valley with my Uncle on Monday. It was a relief to be back and run in normal conditions where I was not being barraged by small sand pellets of death. I got back though, only to find that this whole next week it was going to be pouring rain in San Diego! A great thing for San Diego (because we need to water) a bad thing for running because that meant the “TREADMILL”, and I hate treadmills…. So this week my running goal was 80 miles regardless of weather conditions. So on Tuesday I did an easy out and back twenty throughout Scripps Ranch and into Mira Mesa. Then on wednesday I followed that up with a nice run down at mission bay area with my mom. Lately I had been stuck on running fast. It wasnt my choice, as of late I had been running 7:30 miles everywhere I went and however long I went. It was nice, because left and right I was setting myself new speed-distance records. So the pinnacle of the week was definetly on Friday  though when I ran a marathon in break record time! I started off doing a dreaded 6 miles on the treadmill at the gym at a 7:30 pace. As I said, I got to mile six and then I didnt care how much it was raining, I wanted the hell out off of that treadmill. So then I proceeded from Frogs down Pomerado towards espola (going north) and then did a gigantic poway loop, completing espola to twin peaks, twin peaks to midland, midland to poway, poway to the end of GR, then GR to poway, poway to Sabre Springs Parkway and back through some more streets into my house. I however completed that marathon in 3:17, three hours and seventeen minutes. That was a new record for myself and gave me complete confidence that if I wanted to attempt to break a three hour marathon this year that I fully well had the ability too. Well that was this week, hope you guys are all doing well. See you on the road!

-Nick

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3. March 2008 by admin.

This week was a bunch of fun. I had just finished dealing with a stupid sickness and was ready to hit the ground hardcore running again (even though in retrospect from now I really should have focused on sponsorships and news articles instead..). So this week again I made it my goal to do 20 miles a day. Again I got to about Tuesday before I was like ugh.. I’ll just do a big run this weekend and continue on with smaller ones this week. So I did, on Wednesday I left to Saleen Valley with my Uncle to do a huge trip out there. The camp was stationed only like 50 miles away from badwater, CA!!! OMG!! A run that hopefully, in the next year or two I will be well capable of accomplishing (www.badwater.com for more information on that race). Ok, so a story I have while I was in Saleen valley. Crazy stupid run.. So where in the Desert and I see this Peace sign out in the distance, maybe 3-4 miles away and I am like dude I gotta get to that sign. So starting off there is no trail getting out there so I am dodging cactus and running over large rocks (good trail running practice I guess..) Then I reach the top of the peace sign and it is a really great view from the top. I see however in the distance what looks to me like a giant blob of fog rolling into the valley. So I am like “ok, whatever its just fog..”. So I run back towards camp and get on the main dirt road and look around and that blob of fog is alot closer that it was before to the camp. Still I ignore it and decide to go check out the lower camp. Then I am running on my way back up to the upper camp (about 1 mile away from the lower) and that wasnt fog at all…it was a frigging huge sandstorm! the bushes are flying everywhere tumbleweeds bigger that I have ever seen are flying by my head. I couldnt open my eyes to see, it felt like 1000 bee stings were happening on my skin every step I took (as I was just wearing short little runners shorts..). So I covered the next mile, by hiding behind bush by bush waiting for a lull in the wind to proceed to the next bush. It was a fun experience and I always say “miserable is memorable” so that just made it all the better. Well please make a donation if you have not yet to my cause, I will continue keeping you guys posted. Til’ next time stay classy San Diego.

-Nick

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3. March 2008 by admin.

The sickness..I got struck again, annoyingly. So running was temporarily halted until, even though the sickness wasnt at the point where I couldnt run I did not want to aggravate the thing and prolonge sickness. So for this week, I was resting and trying to figure out what exact dates that I want to do this 100 mile run, talking to Joe about possibly doing it late this february if I was ready….. :o  So that was a thought.. Other than that truth be told I did fall behind this week on everthing a little bit..It was another week I wasnt sponsored and wasnt running. So happy that, that week is gone.

-Nick

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3. March 2008 by admin.

Hey guys updating you guys on this week. So this week was all about mailing out sponsorships and trying to get my name out there more. I had also planned to run over 100 miles this week trying to complete one of my first “hell weeks” in which I told myself to run 20 miles per day. I still to today have not completed a full week, I’ll get to wednesday or thursday with 20 mi a day and then be like rest… and then just do a 40 miler on the weekend to make up for the loss. So this week I tried making up a bunch of company proposals and going out to them in person just to discover that all of it is corporate and you just have to mail that stuff in. Me being an e-mail borne person have yet still to send those actual mail letters out. However I am doing this today most definetly. I was also trying this week to do a publicity stunt sometime at frogs where I run for 12 hours straight on a treadmill. However I tried running a marathon on a treadmill and discovered that I can make it to about 6 miles before I start losing my mind from boredom. So that was this week, if any of you guys know of any connections or anything that could help me out. That would be great if you could tell me. See you guys on the road!

-Nick

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3. March 2008 by admin.

So this will be the week of 20th of January through the 26th of January that we will be reviewing. Major accomplishments this week have definetly been the Calico trail run that I completed on Sunday, crazy ,crazy race. The race first of all was all the way out by barstowe in the desert ghost town of Calico. Race time was at strictly 7:00 so it was one of those 5:30 morning’s for me and my lovely family that accompanied me. So anyway’s ya, the race was called a “trail run” entering the race I thought nothing of it. I had done cross country for three years and those were all trail runs..So whats the big deal about another trail run? The fact thats its 32 miles long with hills that steeper than 45 degrees on mile 30 was the big deal…It was great though, a great experience I kept it a generally easy pace, walking all the hills like you would in an Ultra-marathon, taking mile by mile as it came by. They had several rest points but most of which were way too windy to stop and actually rest on so that sucked. When all was said and done with the race I sprinted through town, on the downhill finish and came in at a time of 5 hours and 17 minutes, I was somewhat dissapointed with the time (having aimed for under 5 hours) but I had completly forgotten that it was a trail run when I set that goal. So I did come in second place though for my age group and have a cool little plaque with some weird crystal on it know, its nice! Everything else that week was really just recovery from that run, and on Friday I received a huge donation from a women who works in the district office and was very pleased. Well I hope everything is well with all of you and if you havent already please make a donation today!

-Nick

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1. March 2008 by admin.

Hey guys this is Nick, just to let you know I am still alive and well. Sorry I have been off of this blogroll for so long I got caught up in a bunch of stuff over the past two months but I have no excuse for falling this far behind on keeping you guys updated. I will update this site and the main one in the next two days with all the exciting information that you have been missing. So newest biggest highlights these days though are the marathon I ran last weekend where I set my new PR at 3:17 and then next biggest news is that I am going to attempt a 100 mile run tommorrow just too see if I can I’m not too hell-bent on completing it but ya know if I get there i get there. We’ll I’ll never let it get this far behind again and I will have the site updated in the next two days. As I said my Sincere Apologies and thank you for keeping faithful!
-Nick Hollon (MR.3000)

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