In a nutshell roads suck. Running on the road is boring, and punishing. The road beats us into submission with every foot fall. The road causes aches and pains the trail would never do, the trail mothers you as the road makes you its bitch. The trail welcomes you to trod on its twisting, climbing, …
Author: aktrailrunner
I run and backpack on the trails of Alaska, occasionally getting outside to run and visit other places. I race when I can but my true passion is exploring trials and just being there.
The Sickness of Sickness
It's been a week now since I got sick. A virus has been going around the area and I succumbed to its viral tentacles. It hit me hard sending me to bed for 15 hours of sleeping at night and barely having the strength to go downstairs the rest of the time. For six days I've …
Night Running
I am being forced to run and train at night this week because of my work schedule and it just so happens that March has decided to pretend it's winter and dumped about four inches of snow on us yesterday as well. I ran out the Balaine mushing trail for a 7 mile out and …
Midweek Trail Run
I walked outside yesterday clad in my winter running shoes, a well worn pair of Salomon SpikeCross3 trail shoes, overkill in the real world but here they're a bit of the norm. I bought them in February after having destroyed an old pair of Asics Arctics, the Asics version of an aggressive winter trail shoe. I bought …
All Laced Up and Ready to Go
I feel like I'm about to head out the door to try and tackle some beast of a trail that I've never seen before with starting up this blog. I'm passionate about running and the experiences I have running trails, so this blog is my way of sharing and talking about those experiences and the training I …
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