Peter BG Shoemaker

Great, now I have to change the site around: running the Catoctin 50K

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I’ve planned since March for TNF 50M to be my first official ultra.  Sure, I’d planned to do some ultraish runs in training for the race, but TNF was going to be the great coming out.  Unfortunately, I’ve made a huge tactical error.  Looking at my training calendar I knew that the first weekend of August I was slated to do 30 miles.  So, there’s that.  Then there’s the Internet.  Which led me to the ULTRA mailing list.  Which – unfortunately – led me to the Catoctin 50K race on August 2.

Yes.  So, you see what’s happened?

I’ve gone and gotten myself into a real live ultra in advance of my first real live ultra.

I’ve actually gotten myself into a gnarly, rock-invested, mountainous, humid, wet, and opinionated real live ultra.

So, there’s that.

Main website is here.

Previous year’s race reports here (John’s is particularly good).

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2 Responses to “Great, now I have to change the site around: running the Catoctin 50K”


  1. reb
    on Jul 18th, 2008
    @ 11:55 am: 

    you dork.


  2. Peter
    on Jul 18th, 2008
    @ 2:12 pm: 

    Thanks, Rebecca!

For many years now I've left a trail of flecks across the Internet. Just begun novels; explorations of culture, music, writing, food, the future, mountains, long distances, shallow oceans, deep canyons; oddly-composed music; even more oddly-constructed poetry; impassioned editorial; strident analysis, and a slew of images, sounds, and scribbles. Most of this has passed into the aether, waiting only for some semi-sentient algorithm to pull it from obscurity twenty years hence. In the meantime, there is this lodestone, gathering what it can.

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I've spent the last 15 or so years exploring the borders of markets, innovation, curiosity, technology, culture, society, and policy, with very little regard for passports or visas. While my early travels are documented elsewhere, I now spend my time with Pinyon Labs, a strategic foresight research firm. We do spectacularly interesting and innovative stuff in transportation and energy for private industry, government, and non-profits.

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I've been slowly trying to consolidate the virtual me, spread as it has been across the nets. Most of my writing (at least my better stuff) is available at atelier tushu, my workshop and exhibition space. There too you'll find a smattering of painting, photography, and sound sculpture past, present, and future. Elsewhere is my writing on running really, really far. There is also an irregularly updated collection of cultural ephemera called CultureLust that I maintain when I think about it.

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