I’m always curious about the other crazies that run ultras so I’ve started looking at the demographics of those that run the same races I do. All of the data below was pulled from Ultrasignup and while I’ve found it to be fairly accurate (i.e. all my ultra finishes are listed there), it’s not going…
Season of Slow
I’m an idiot. Coming out of my lackluster performance at Burning River, I knew I needed a little R&R. I had several months in between races, which provided me the perfect opportunity for some downtime. I’m a planner though so I can’t just have complete unstructured nothingness stretching out as far as the eye can…
Popularity of Ultramarathons
Most people tend to track the popularity of ultras based on number of finishes or number of races in a given year. And based on these metrics, ultra popularity rapidly increased after the year 2000 and is at its peak. This makes sense to me. The book Born to Run came out about 10 years…
2018 Digits to Date
I was messing around with my training log earlier today and stumbled upon some interesting numbers. Well, I found them interesting. I’ll let you be the ultimate judge though. Here are my monthly mileage totals going back to when I started logging them. The first thing that jumped out is that I just set a…