It has been a while it feels since the last time I thought about this day as it slowly approaches. July of 2017 was the last time I failed to finish a trail race, it's lesson's still fresh in my mind but the race is but a vague memory. As July approaches and the race …
Category: Ultramarathon trail racing
In The Darkness of Winter I Find a Glimmer of Light
With a sense of nausea my eyes opened to the darkness, the sun hasn't yet risen and a dark grey world greets my foggy mind. Rolling over to peer out of the window a low cloud ceiling has hidden the tops of the hills and the trees appear like spectres. Remorsefully I get out of …
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Failing Is Not A Failure
I was 45 miles into my race, a grueling 50 mile trail race through the hills and over the ridges of some of interior Alaska's beautiful wilderness. I was slowly forcing my body up the last climb, just shy of 500 vertical feet and a half of a mile from the top of the ridgeline …
The Death In Identity
All good things will come to an end with time and some of the most cherished moments will be forever found in the fading glimpses of memory. There is beginning to be a large discussion regarding the growing population of professional and amateur media people over populating the larger trail running races in what so …
A Years Culmination
One year ago to the day I began a journey down a path that I never thought would be possible. Already a huge fan of trail running, I loved spending as much time as I could running trails wherever I was. I raced shorter distances thinking that my poor abused knees couldn't handle the punishment …
Lake Sonoma
Having landed in Santa Rosa and picked up my rental car, I was driving north to my hotel in Healdsburg feeling kind of numb that this weekend was finally here and all the long training and all the waiting was over. It couldn't have been a nicer day, a cloudless sky and warm temperatures welcomed me …
Forgetting The Little Things
We all go through this period where we have a big race we're training for, or a season that requires us to focus on training and all we do is run, run for tomorrow, for tomorrow's races, for tomorrows goals and the expectations we set for ourselves. I fell into this rut, setting a goal …
Familiarity and Satisfaction in the Desert
Sitting in near complete darkness, it's early in the morning and the sun hasn't risen yet. Steam from my coffee gently rises to my face, a -12F degree morning waits to greet me outside, it can wait. Reflecting on what I had experienced in the last five days has slowed my thought processes to a dreamlike …
Beware The Gummy Bears, It’s A Trap
I don't get up at 6:00 in the morning for very much, if anything at all and yet here I am sitting on the couch barely able to focus on the coffee cup less than three feet from my face. I had little to no motivation to do anything at this hour aside for trying …
On The Road To The Trail, Eagle River
It was 4 hours of sleep, 6 and a half hours of driving over 340 miles to get here to Eagle River and the Eagle River Campground. I finally found a camp site, reserved it and was back in the car to find the trail head of the South Fork Trail of the Eagle River. …
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