Finally. I was signed up to run this race last year, however wasn’t able to because – well, COVID. The truth though is I’ve been waiting to run this race for much, much longer. It wasn’t too long after I got into running about 9 years ago that I learned about ultras. I was intrigued…
Advise for Future M-DT FKT Attempts
If you’re the type of person that only looks to successful people for advice, then you can stop reading here. On the other hand, if you believe that more can be learned from failure than success, then here’s what I’ve learned from my attempt to run the entire Mason-Dixon Trail. Some of this is from…
M-DT FKT Attempt Trip Report
The shorter version This is not the trip report that I had mentally written over the last 6 months leading up to my self-supported attempt of the Mason-Dixon Trail. That one ended at Chadds Ford and not at mile 99 on Cold Cabin Rd. If you had told me going in this would be the…
Mason-Dixon Trail FKT Attempt Preview
Good grief, what am I thinking? I’m going to attempt to set the self-supported fastest known time (FKT) on the Mason-Dixon Trail. I will be starting at Whiskey Springs, the western terminus of the trail, on May 20th about 8am. This means I will try to cover the entire 200 mile trail on foot with…
Mason-Dixon Trail FKT Attempt
I plan to begin a self-supported FKT attempt of the MDT on May 20th. I’ll be starting at Whiskey Springs about 8am. More to come.
My History of 100 Mile PRs
Here’s a short history of how I’ve managed to knock almost 6 hours off my 100 mile time. Oil Creek 100 (26:25:42.7) – 10/10/15 – Age 43 Nice thing about the first race at a distance is you’re guaranteed a PR. Well, if you finish that is. C&O Canal 100 Mile (26:20:47) – 4/30/16 – Age…
2021 C&O Canal 100 Mile Race Report
Saturday was the 8th running of the C&O Canal 100 Mile. The course consists of 3 “loops” on the C&O Canal towpath starting from Camp Manidokan near Knoxvill, MD. The first loop is 38 miles followed by two 31 mile out-and-backs. The race starts with a small loop around the field where you park and…
2021 C&O Canal 100 Mile Preview
After 7 long months, it’s finally time to toe the line at another 100 mile race. C&O Canal was my first 100 miler back in 2015. It also ended up being my first DNF (mile 69). I went back in 2016, got my buckle, and pretty much decided never to go back. It wasn’t so…
Is It Working?
I seem to ask myself this fairly regularly as I progress through a training block. Is my training working? And my yardstick for measuring this 99 times out of a 100 is my pace. Unfortunately, my paces vary so much from day to day that it’s almost impossible for me to tell if I’m getting…
A Winter of 20 Milers: Complete
This morning I completed my Winter of 20 Milers project. Thirteen straight weekends of twenty mile training runs. It didn’t start to become a thing until I was part way into it. But once it was a thing? Oh, then it was on! The funny thing is that when I wrote my initial post on…