Covert Ultramarathon
After pacing me at the Palm 100 , my husband was regretting not running the 50K and notching his first ultramarathon. Since there were no local races coming up, I decided to play race director and make one for us! I had a bit of a head start on this because I'd planned a solo 50K for myself in August that got abandoned in favor of emergency gallbladder surgery (goodbye gallbladder, you will not be missed). I'd designed myself a logo and everything because that kind of overdoing things is how I roll. I'd named my race the Covert Ultramarathon because it ran past CIA Headquarters (vaguely - we were on the other side of the river). I was pretty pleased with that so when the idea to make a race for the two of us popped up, the Covert Ultra was revived! The course was simple: start in Bethesda, MD, run the Capital Crescent Trail down to Fletcher's Boathouse on the C&O Canal, and follow the towpath north until we hit 15.5 miles. Then do it backwards. We parked a car