Does anyone want to move into a cabin in the middle of the woods and run?

Or maybe the OP wants to live this way because they think they'd enjoy the lifestyle.

SpaceX offers internet now, currently functional in northern 48/southern Canada and expanding. $500 set-up, $99/month....not cheap but not too bad and if allows the lifestyle you want then that’s pretty cool.

HickfromtheSticks wrote:

I have two cabins in the middle of the woods. BLM land with trails adjacent. One is for rent.

Careful they don't burn your cabins down

Do these guys provide discounts?

Ha not everyone's a weirdo, he might just want to lead a simpler life lol

I don't know about permanently living in the middle of nowhere with not a soul in sight, but I'd definitely be down to hole up in a cabin for a summer & just eat, sleep, run.

This is indeed a goal of mine, and one that my wife and I have been working towards for two years now. The "pandemic" has actually helped jump us forward many years by changing my place of employments attitude towards work-at-home.

Prior to pandemic, our executives were completely against the idea except for one off days here and there (I am in IT, where WFH makes perfect sense). In the 8 months or so of pandemic, we have been WFH 100% since mid-March, and surprise surprise, the executives see we are every bit as productive at home and now the need for all that expensive real estate in a downtown area is perhaps not needed.

WFH isn't the only thing that is required for this dream though. I want to have enough money that I could "retire" if needed and not have to worry about losing the land. So I want to buy that outright, and there is nowhere in the US where 100 acres or more is "cheap", so that is going to take some real cash. Then enough cash to build a rudimentary homestead and the equipment to maintain it all.

100 miles of trails is pretty sweet in Jackson, NH. One thing I wonder, though, is how many of those trails are unkempt, meaning ticks and poor footing, and if they are kept up, to what extent are they ruined by the deer flies. The deer flies were really bad in the mountains near Lake Winnipesaukee, except for Castle in the Clouds, where they were no problem whatsoever, oddly.

https://newengland.com/today/travel/new-hampshire/white-mountains/things-to-do-in-jackson-nh/

What happened to this Oklahoma xc team? That was just a few years ago. That 12M run on huge rolling hills at 5:45 down to 5:18 showed real strength. At the time, they were ranked 17th. How could they be so bad now? They were 13th and last at Cowboy Jamboree this year behind teams like Stephen F. Austin, Texas State, and Oklahoma Christian. They averaged 26:40, not even strong for a D3 early season meet, and their best guy was 53rd overall in 26:01. 11 OK State guys were ahead of their first guy. Two weeks later at the OSU Invitational, they were 8th and last with an average of 27:09! OK State got 11 guys in ahead of their first guy again (26:14). What is going on there? That is a potentially very strong program that has a good history. How do you do that at a high D1 program like that?

At Big 12 XC, Oklahoma men were slightly better, 26:14 average in Kansas, best guy at 25:38 ,2nd at 25:59, but 8th out of 9 teams, while the women were bad, 23:35 for 6k, that's around 6:18/M!

Has anyone on these boards actually done this? Sounds cool, but would take a special type of loner/self-sufficient personality to do for any length of time. I tried something similar in Mexico a a while back with surfing, fishing, cerveza drinking and self-reflection in mind. Set off with no time-table; thinking a month or a few months, whatever. Crossed back into the states within a week - lol.

Had a couple college friends who lived in the Mountains during summers before CC seasons but they were always near civilization of some sort. Has anyone here gone off the grid, lived off the land and made a long go of it?

This vid flashed me back to our Tuesday 9 milers in college that were very similar in terms of starting sub 6 and working down to 5 min pace with our all-americans under 5. Awful memories :-( I dreaded Tuesdays. That workout was much harder than racing - for me at least.

I have a small location at 7,000feet, know. Runner's around for miles and I'am 15min's away from 5,400ft down the hill and 10min's up the hill at 9,000ft. 90% of my run's are on dirt in the woods, perfect location for training. ??

Lenny Kravitz has something like that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AU7wsg_6DX4

zxcvzcxv wrote:

What happened to this Oklahoma xc team? That was just a few years ago. That 12M run on huge rolling hills at 5:45 down to 5:18 showed real strength. At the time, they were ranked 17th. How could they be so bad now? They were 13th and last at Cowboy Jamboree this year behind teams like Stephen F. Austin, Texas State, and Oklahoma Christian. They averaged 26:40, not even strong for a D3 early season meet, and their best guy was 53rd overall in 26:01. 11 OK State guys were ahead of their first guy. Two weeks later at the OSU Invitational, they were 8th and last with an average of 27:09! OK State got 11 guys in ahead of their first guy again (26:14). What is going on there? That is a potentially very strong program that has a good history. How do you do that at a high D1 program like that?

Without knowing anything about the team you can see that their coaches have changed since this video.

I guess Ondrasek is no longer coaching in college?

Alan