This blog is almost a year old now and I haven’t done a post yet about my running shoes. The primary reason is because I’m not a shoe guy. It seems like most blogs I read people are pretty fanatical about their shoes. They have a specific shoe or brand they love and that’s all…
2017 Race Schedule (and today’s MAF test)
I know what you’re thinking. We’re still over a week out from November and I’m already talking about my 2017 race schedule? This isn’t quite as ridiculous as it sounds when it comes to ultras though. First off, there’s not nearly the same number of options as you get for shorter distances especially when it comes…
Project 14Forty
I have a dream. Not a capital D Dream, but a dream nonetheless. I have a fascination with round numbers and while 24 is not a very round number, the number 1 is. Ever since I start training for 100 milers, I’ve wanted to run one inside of a day. One sun, one moon, 100 miles. …
Caught a 10K (and Offseason Update)
While it’s true that the purpose of this blog is to document my chase of a hundred 100 mile run finishes (100×100=10,000), this is goal remains so far in the future as to be unattainable. I’ve been running 100 mile races for 18 months now and I’m only 4% of the way there. So I…
2016 Cloudsplitter 100 Race Report
Note: This race report is from the last year of the original course and is completely different than what has been run since 2017. I need to start with how absolutely gorgeous the course was. I picked this race because they had some pretty pictures on their website and if anything, they undersold how beautiful…
Buckle #4
Finish time: 31:35:56
Cloudsplitter 100 Preview
The family and I are off to Kentucky Friday for the 3rd running of the Cloudsplitter 100. As a relatively new race, there’s not a lot of information available outside of the race website. Frankly, it was the picture on the main page that drew me to the race initially. Who wouldn’t want to run…
Digits: 9/24/16 MAF Test
I just realized that I haven’t updated you on my MAF tests since my “breakthrough” two months back. Let’s just say my upward trajectory (or downward if we’re talking about pace) stalled and I backslid a bit. Right back to the 10 minute pace I had been stuck at for the past year. I started to…
Wednesday Haiku: 9/21/16
Second sun rises And miles to go before rest Invent possible
Ready or Not
I’m 13 days out from the Cloudsplitter 100 and finished my last long run earlier today. OK, it was my only long run. And it was only 10 miles. I had planned on doing a 2 hour hike immediately afterwards, but ended up substituting a 2.5 mile dog walk instead due to time constraints. The…