The shorter version This is not the trip report that I had mentally written over the last 6 months leading up to my self-supported attempt of the Mason-Dixon Trail. That one ended at Chadds Ford and not at mile 99 on Cold Cabin Rd. If you had told me going in this would be the…
Mason-Dixon Trail FKT Attempt Preview
Good grief, what am I thinking? I’m going to attempt to set the self-supported fastest known time (FKT) on the Mason-Dixon Trail. I will be starting at Whiskey Springs, the western terminus of the trail, on May 20th about 8am. This means I will try to cover the entire 200 mile trail on foot with…
2021 Schedule
Below is my tentative schedule for next year. Considering how 2020 has gone, I’m pretty sure my year won’t end up looking like this once it’s finished. Hopefully, we’ll start to get this pandemic under control by April and most of these races can be held. Given the relatively small fields at most of these…
M-DT Trip Report – Maps 7 & 8
With the cancellation of Hat 50K, I decided on running maps 7 and 8 of the Mason-Dixon Trail as plan B. I am in the middle of section hiking/running the M-DT as prep for a fastest known time attempt at some point in the distant future. My son and I did the last 2 sections…
From Thought Toward Action
It started with a thought. And for the past 8 months that’s all it was. It wasn’t even a constant thought as I would go weeks or much longer without thinking about running the Mason-Dixon Trail. I had three hundreds on my schedule that took all of my time and attention. I then had my first…
How It Begins
Thoughts are sneaky insidious things. Now thoughts by themselves are neither good nor bad, however they’re usually just the beginning. Thoughts lead to actions and those can be great and wonderful or dark and evil. Of course, there is a third alternative. Thoughts can also lead one off the well trod path and into the land of padded rooms. …