I’ve spent the last 7-8 years mostly treading water from a fitness standpoint. My improved race performances have been driven by better execution of all the little things (pacing, nutrition, hydration, mental focus) and a general conditioning to the excessive pounding of long ultras. I got a little burned out from the relentless grind building…
Time For A Tune-up
I have a confession to make. I don’t really train for ultras anymore. My first 3-5 years were composed of a 20 week training block followed by a race then a month of downtime/recovery. Rinse and repeat. It was a pretty epic grind to build up my endurance base. Once I had finished 10-15 ultras…
Spice Of Life
Despite almost breaking a foot on a dozen separate occasions during Ironstone, the race successfully reignited my desire to run sub-100 mile races again. My focus will always be on the longer ultras because that’s what I truly enjoy, however there is a place in my schedule for races that can be completed inside a…
Ironstone 100K Race Report
Ironstone 100K is a trail race across 100,000 iron stones. There are big rocks. There are small ones. Most are solid, however some are not firmly anchored in the ground with no warning as to which is which. Many, many of them are sharp and pointy (oh, so pointy!). There are invisible stones and ones…
Ironstone 100K Preview
Excluding the half marathon I ran with my wife last fall, this will be my shortest race in almost 3 years. Which is just crazy. Early on in my ultra career, I would run three hundreds per year with a shorter ultra either as a lead up or out of season. This slowly transitioned to…
Holy Crap, I Love That Song!
or sometimes the algorithm we need to break out of is ourselves. One of the reasons I picked DJing as my first retirement hobby was to dive deeper into my massive music collection (1,200+ CDs). While my music consumption is mostly associated with this collection (i.e. no streaming, radio), for the last 20 years or…