Do you believe in signs? Whether it’s God or life in general giving direction by providing an insight into the correct choice? When you’re presented with 2 equal options, how do you pick between them? Most times the correct choice is easy. It screams out to you what you should do. But what about those times…
Cloudsplitter 100 Training Plan
Um, I don’t really have one. It’s not that I don’t really want one. I do. And it’s not that I don’t know how to create one. I do. It’s that this race is only 7 weeks after Eastern States. What can I possibly do in 7 weeks? I don’t have time for a full blown…
Eastern States 100: Odds and Ends
You would think I a 3100 word race report would be enough to cover all the details of a race. Normally, it would however there were many things that I ended up leaving out. In no particular order: Race organization. I can’t say enough about how well run this race was. The aid stations were…
Eastern States 100 Mile Race Report
Hard. So hard. I don’t have the eloquence to properly describe the difficulty of this race. Yes, there was a lot of vertical gain/loss over the 102.9 miles. Yes, it was hot (90s) and humid. And yes, the trails were highly technical even for Rocksylvania. The latter is what really took me by surprise. I…
Eastern States 100 Buckle
It took me 34 hours and 44 minutes to earn this bad boy. I’ll have all the gory details at some point over the next week or so.
Eastern States 100 Preview
Here we go. I’ve been dreading looking forward to this race since I signed up for it last October. I don’t want to say I was looking past C&O Canal because I’m definitely still too new at the distance to do that sort of thing, but ES100 has been my focus all year long. Online…
Streakiversary
Happy Streakiversary to me! Four years ago today I started my current running streak. I had just read an article about this guy who had run every day for something ridiculous like 50 years and was intrigued by the idea. I’m a big believer in doing a little bit of exercise each day and the 1 mile…
Digits: July 2016
I had my last long run of this training cycle yesterday. It was 10 miles of Cheslen Hills followed by a 2 hour hike, where I added 7 more miles to my daily tally. I typically do my longest training run 3 weeks out from my goal race and then cut my long run way…
Walking It In: The Sequel!
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but I walked in yet another training run. Sequels are typically horrendous affairs (think Caddyshack II), however every now and again you stumble across a gem (Lethal Weapon 2, Back to the Future II). This weekend’s long run definitely goes into the latter category and not the…
Walking It In
I should have known it was going to be one of those runs. I was about 2 miles into my run on Saturday when a water bottle jumped out of my hydration pack and dropped to the ground. The lid popped off and about 3/4 of the water was emptied out before I could scoop…