All over the world everybody in one form or another is being impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic and none the less has it been more apparent than within our running community as races in the U.S. and the rest of the world are being canceled. Trying to find some semblance of normalcy in this upside …
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Running Alaska’s Pinnell Mountain Trail
I was suddenly woken up from my fitful sleep, it's 2:30am. A mosquito has felt it necessary to harass me, me covered in mosquito repellant, sealed in my car and desperate to get a few grateful hours of sleep. Then I saw the sun, this sun was floating just off the horizon of distant hills …
Javelina Jundred, Round 1
I'm not sure what time it was as I slowly eased my way out of Javelina Headquarters, heading out to begin lap 4 of 5 laps during the Javelina Jundred Endurance Run. I didn't care what time it was anymore, I was only watching my feet move below me, my hands on my hips. The …
When Persistence Pays Off
It was nearly a year to the day when I suffered from one of my biggest failures in ultra running, choosing to quit the Angel Creek 50 Mile trail race at mile 44.5. The betrayal I felt at the hands of my body's inability to cope with the stress that I was forcing it to …
Returning to a Lesson
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 …
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 …
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