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…
Signs
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…