I think I’m pre-injured. Recovering from Umstead is starting to feel like I normally do during my tapers. I’m not injured, but my legs just don’t seem to feel right. Yes, I know. They call this recovery for a reason, but I got back to 95% or so within 4 or 5 days (i.e. really…
Old Dominion 100 Mile Training Plan
The timing of my three 100-milers this year (4/1, 6/3, 8/12) doesn’t really give me whole lot of time to train in between each one. Especially, since I’ll need a portion of that time to recover from the prior race. So I’ll need to be a little creative in my running over the next 8…
2017 Umstead 100 Mile Race Report
There are 3 different types of people who are going to read this post. The first are people who are thinking about signing up for this race. The second are those that have signed up and want to know more about it. The third group are those that are interested in how I did personally. …
Project 14Forty: Success!
Total time: 22:07:59 It’s going to take me quite a while to distill my thoughts into a race report so don’t expect it until late this week at the earliest. All I can say now is that it’s rare in life for something to meet your wildest dreams, but this race came extremely close.
2017 Umstead 100 Mile Preview
Third Time’s a Charm This is my third consecutive April 100 miler where I’ve been gunning for a sub-24 hour finish. My first attempt resulted in a DNF and I walked in the last 30 miles of my second try. Both times I was pretty confident that I had it in the bag so I’m obviously…
100 Miler Wish List
You may find this surprising, but according to Run100s.com (my go-to reference for all things 100 miles) there are about 150 races in North America that are 100 miles in length. This is up about 50% from when I first started researching the distance 4 years ago. Heck, three of the races that I’ve done…
Something Always Goes Wrong
I’ve learned a couple things over the past 18 months of running 100 mile races, but nothing more important that the title of this post. Maybe it’s the small sample size (5 races). Or maybe it’s my inexperience (same 5 races). Or maybe it’s just that with 100 miles and upwards of 35 hours of “running”, there’s more opportunity…
Moments in Time: 2016 C&O Canal 100
It’s 2am and I’m sitting in a chair at the Nolan’s Ferry aid station. Normally, this is not a good sign during the later stages of an ultra. Chairs have magical attractive properties (especially during 100 mile races) such that once your bottom touches them, it’s extremely difficult to extricate yourself from them. Luckily for…
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…
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…