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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…

  Finish time: 31:35:56

I would love for someone to tell why it’s so hard to do the right thing.  It’s incredibly easy to know what you should do, but can be frustratingly difficult to actually do it.  Right is good and everyone wants to be good.  It’s always easy and straightforward in the abstract, however once you actually…

I survived in 26 hours and 21 minutes. My race report probably won’t done until late this week.

I’m not normally a superstitious person.  I’ve stepped on enough cracks in my life to cripple a major country.  I’m partially color blind so who knows what kind of cats are crossing my paths.  And the only wood I knock on are doors. So when it comes to racing, I don’t always eat the same…

I typically ask myself this question at least once every ultra I run.  And I don’t ask this in a joking, “gosh, what have I gotten myself into” way either.  When I start questioning my reason for being hours into a run with hours left to go, it’s 100% serious.  Sometimes it’s just a fleeting thought that passes through my head,…

OK, it wasn’t quite a blizzard out this morning, but there were a couple inches of snow on the roads.  There were still some snow flakes drifting down and portions of the run had some sort of sleeting/frozen pellet precipitation falling out of the sky.  The conditions were far from the worst I’ve ever run…

Here is how my 2016 race calendar is shaping up. Phunt 50K – January 16th – Elkton, MD Naked Bavarian 40 Miler – March 5th – Leesport, PA C&O Canal 100 – April 30th – Knoxville, MD Eastern States 100 – August 13th – Waterville, PA Cloudsplitter 100 – October 1st – Pine Mountain, KY…

I like to think of myself as a logical person so what bothers me ar typically those things that don’t make sense. I don’t have a problem with the cold weather in winter.  This isn’t summer after all.  It’s supposed to be cold.  That makes sense. It’s not the snow and ice.  You can’t have snowball fights…

C10K Math The math  behind finishing a hundred 100 milers is rather daunting: 10 finishes per year (every 5 weeks): 10 years to complete (54 when done) 4 finishes per year (every 3 months): 25 years to complete (69 when done) 3 finishes per year (every 4 months): 33 years, 4 months to complete (77…