tl;dr I have no idea what I’m doing here. My Calendar Club project ended 3 weeks out from my first spring race, which is the perfect timing for a peak week. The good news was that I ended that 7 day period feeling strong and injury free despite running 196 miles. The bad news is…
March 2026 Calendar Club – Month In Review
Last month I completed the Calendar Club which is a running challenge where you run in miles the day of the month. This is a report on how it went. Background and Context Before I get into it, a little background on me. I’ve been running consistently for 13 years now. I crossed 30k lifetime…
March 2026 Calendar Club – Week 4 Update
What an amazing week of running for me. Coming into this project, I guessed that week 4 would be where the accumulated mileage (175 on the week, 410 for the month) would have my legs completely thrashed and I’d be really struggling just to get the miles in each day. In reality? Not so much.…
March 2026 Calendar Club – Week 3 Update
Oh, yeah. I’m deep into things now. I started this week off with my fastest paced effort of the month. It only went downhill from there as the accumulated mileage started to finally catch up with me. My legs have felt pretty decent starting out for each of the runs, however my paces just started…
Caught a (3x) 10K
I hit 30,000 lifetime running miles a couple weeks back. More specifically, 30k from when my current training log started back in 2012. I had done some (undocumented) running before that, however guess it was quite a bit less than 1,000 total so we can ignore those miles for the sake of simplicity. The math…
March 2026 Calendar Club Update
So far, so good. I’m now two weeks (14 days) into my attempt to run in miles the day of the month. Physically, I still feel solid. My legs aren’t too sore yet. I’m focusing on eating enough (even during my runs) and sleeping about 9 hours per night. I also just started switching between…
There’s A First Time For Everything
Eastern States 100 is my favorite race. By far. And it’s not even really close. I love everything about the race, the course, and the organization behind it (Eastern States Trail-Endurance Alliance). Every year I’m excited to head back to Little Pine State Park to start my circumnavigation of Pine Creek. ES100 is the final…
The World’s Most Expensive MP3 Player
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, then you’ll know that I’m a planner. I don’t do the spontaneous thing very well. That’s not to say I can’t adapt when things go awry. This is definitely a skill ultrarunning has forced upon me, but I don’t begin by having a plan to be unplanned.…
Calendar Club – March 2026
Typically the first time anyone hears a new idea, it’s immediately rejected. You reject it because new ideas won’t fit your mental framework of how the world works or what is possible. This happens in running when you are introduced to certain distances or events. You might be able to wrap your head around running…
DJ Chasing 10K
My first new retirement hobby: DJing. Yes, this is as ridiculous as it sounds. I’ve loved listening to music virtually my entire life. Over the years, I have built up a massive CD collection (~1,300) and typically add 4-6 new albums a month. Probably half of them are electronic or EDM adjacent with the rest…