<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MKE-MR:
I'll be interested right after I get back from through-hiking the Appalachian Trail 
<not joking...I'm off for seven months, starting March 18, 2004></font>
My roommate thru-hiked the PCT in 2001. Finished in Sept, then ran the Portland Marathon w/o training 4 weeks later.