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Bull Run Run 50 miler - 2016

 It's been a while since I've written up a race report but Bull Run Run is definitely a race worthy of reflection and sharing - It's Monday night and I'm sitting here sipping on a Bowman's Single Barrel - it's nice. So, BRR - sigh. So, bear w/ me while I bring us all up to speed - Back in September I reached out to Mike & Mel and asked if they wouldn't mind celebrating my birthday w/ me. They readily obliged and I think it was somewhere between dinner and dessert, after a couple bottles of wine and moving on to the cheesecake and whiskey, that Mike threw down the idea of running the LUS series this year. For the most part he'd taken the year off from running after having run the BEAST the year before, and well, I'd been feeling really apathetic about my running and figured it would be a good way to get me to focus -  and well, I needed to test my limits - if not now, then when (?)  October, November, December rolled around - I put in