Photo from mile 19, making the push up the long climb to Fort Peabody, the high point of the Ouray 100 course at 13,340 feet. Photo credit Eszter Horanyi. The Ouray 100 Endurance Run had long been a dream of mine, since about 8 years ago when I first started looking at doing a […]
So #IMLP2021 actually started in Couer d’Alene about a month before. My plan was to use structured training right up to IM Couer d’Alene and then use some of the fitness gains from that race to carry me to IM Lake Placid. For reasons still mysterious to me, I was not able to complete IMCDA […]
A hellishly hard to run race, deserves an impossible to read behemoth of a race report…. early on…all good BTU miler (160km odd) I’d toyed with cancelling this race. I’d entered it, expecting it to be in July in the depths of winter. Of course, due to Covid, it was delayed til October, which […]
RACE REPORT: Kissing Bridge Trailway FKT The trails are my playground. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of nimbly winding in and around trees and branches while avoiding treacherous roots and rocks that want nothing more than to grab hold of your feet and make you eat dirt. And let’s not forget the charged […]
After several years of gaining experience and cultivating endurance, 2020 sprouted an exciting crop of anticipated goals and experiences…until COVID-19 scorched the earth. I had an exciting running line-up scheduled this spring culminating in my first 100 miler: Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 (MMT100). I knew it would be hard, but I had been building up […]
Hellgate 100K++ 12/14/19 “If there is no struggle, there is no progress” –Frederick Douglas Every year of the Hellgate 100K, prior to the race, registered runners are presented with race shirts, as is common in running races as a memorial or marketing piece for the event. The Hellgate shirts are not common though. They include […]
As I write my race report for IRONMAN #5, I can’t help but to think that #4 is still outstanding! I honestly been meaning to do it for quite a long time now since I know there is some folks I must acknowledge as being integral into getting me here. Something has been keeping me […]
