I had been looking forward to One Day for quite some time since I would be running it with my wife. She’s a very casual runner so isn’t able to do many of races that I sign up for, however the format for this race is perfect for people of all athletic abilities. It’s held…
NJ One Day at the Fair Preview
I have my last race of the year in a couple days and I’m not nearly as anxious heading into it as I normally am. Typically, I’m all kinds of obsessing over weather and gear and logistics, but I’ve hardly given the race much thought over the past month or so. That’s not to say…
Chasing PRs
I think I’m done chasing PRs. When I got started running, it was all about time for me. Could I break 2 hours in the half marathon? Could I improve upon my marathon time? Heck, I was even trying to drop my 5K time on the rare occasion that I would race the distance. As…
2018 Blues Cruise 50K Race Report
This race bills itself as a good introduction to ultra running and even goes as far as to call the course runnable. The implication being that this is an easy course. While I would definitely recommend this as someone’s first ultra, nothing about running 50K on this or any other course is easy. And there…
Who’s Running 2018 Blues Cruise 50K?
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…
2018 Burning River Participant Demographics
I’m always curious what type person runs an ultra so I’ve pulled together some data on who else ran Burning River 100 this year. All numbers were pulled from Ultrasignup based on the race results posted on the Burning River website. Age and Gender As is typical in hundreds, the starting field was dominated by…
Just a 20 Miler
I had a humorous exchange with a co-worker this past week. He’s training for his first ultra that’s coming up in a couple weeks (Labor Pains) and I asked how far he was running this weekend. He said “just 20 miles” and immediately paused like he’d just dropped the F bomb. After a second, he…