The best laid plans of mice and ultrarunners . . . I’ve been struggling with the motivation to write this race report. Part of it has to do with my performance (not my best). Part of it is that I’ve already written two reports on this race so don’t have a lot of original things…
2018 Naked Bavarian 40 Miler Preview
It’s a little hard for me to believe, but this will be my fourth time running this event. My last two race reports can be found here (for some reason I never wrote one for 2015) and I included a decent course description in last year’s race preview post. There are quite a few reasons…
2/24/18 MAF Test
I’m baaaaaaack. It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned my MAF tests (almost 10 months now). This isn’t because I haven’t been doing them. I’m still heading over to the local high school track every month or so to run five miles at a consistent heart rate (142 bpm). No, I haven’t been documenting them…
We’re All Qualified To Be Here
I stumbled upon this video about running 100 miles and thought it did a great job of capturing the physical and emotional toll of running the distance. It’s about two guys who have been doing ultras for a couple years and decide to step up to the 100 mile distance. The first third is about…
20.00 Miles on Day 2,000
I love my round numbers and today ended up being doubly round. Over five years ago, I started a streak of running at least one mile every day. At the beginning, my goal was to make it a month. I had read of people who had kept their streaks up for 20-30 years, however I…
NJ Ultra Training Update
My winter training cycle leading up to my first 100-miler of the year is broken into three phases. Phase 1 ended a couple weeks back with Phunt 50K. My mileage in the four weeks heading up to it was 31, 37, 46, and 31 miles with 53 miles the week of the race including the…
2018 Phunt 50K Race Report
While you never know what type of weather you’re gonna get in the middle of January in the Mid-Atlantic, it’s a safe bet that warm will not be part of it. This usually isn’t a big deal for me, yet for some reason I couldn’t figure out what to wear for the race. The complicating…
2018 Phunt 50K Preview
My 2018 “race” season starts Saturday at the Fair Hill Natural Resource Management Area in Elkton, MD. I throw quotes in there because while I will be wearing a bib, I won’t really be racing at Phunt. It’s kinda tough to be in race shape after only a couple weeks of increased training volumes. So…
Cold Streak
I’m working on an historic cold streak right now. The temperature outside has been below 20 degrees for each of my past seven runs and bottomed out at 6 degrees today. My habit of getting out before the sun is even up means I’m running in the coldest part of the day. Since I started…
2017 Year in Review
I’m more of a looking forward type of person than someone who dwells on the past. That’s probably why I posted my 2018 schedule before I got around to how I think this year went. But if you’re going to grow and improve, then you need to review and critique your performances. I came into the…