Everesting. The cycling world created this new endurance feat a while back, however I just stumbled onto it recently. The concept is pretty simple: you ride hill repeats until you reach an elevation gain of 29,029 feet, which is the height of Mount Everest. While you can take as many breaks as you want, this…
A Season of Waiting
Your tree has been carefully selected and placed in the living room. The ornaments have been pulled from storage and arranged just so. The lights have been untangled and strung from top to bottom. Presents have been purchased. Cards have been sent and received. Parties have been prepped and invitations sent. While there will always…
October 8, 2050
One Day was the 10th time I ran 100 miles putting me 10% towards my goal of running the distance a hundred times. At my current pace, I would reach this lofty target on October 8th, 2050 at the ripe old age of 79. If I change the start date to my first 100 finish…
2018 NJ Trail Series One Day Race Report
I had been looking forward to One Day for quite some time since I would be running it with my wife. She’s a very casual runner so isn’t able to do many of races that I sign up for, however the format for this race is perfect for people of all athletic abilities. It’s held…
NJ One Day at the Fair Preview
I have my last race of the year in a couple days and I’m not nearly as anxious heading into it as I normally am. Typically, I’m all kinds of obsessing over weather and gear and logistics, but I’ve hardly given the race much thought over the past month or so. That’s not to say…
Chasing PRs
I think I’m done chasing PRs. When I got started running, it was all about time for me. Could I break 2 hours in the half marathon? Could I improve upon my marathon time? Heck, I was even trying to drop my 5K time on the rare occasion that I would race the distance. As…
2018 Blues Cruise 50K Race Report
This race bills itself as a good introduction to ultra running and even goes as far as to call the course runnable. The implication being that this is an easy course. While I would definitely recommend this as someone’s first ultra, nothing about running 50K on this or any other course is easy. And there…
Who’s Running 2018 Blues Cruise 50K?
I’m always curious about the other crazies that run ultras so I’ve started looking at the demographics of those that run the same races I do. All of the data below was pulled from Ultrasignup and while I’ve found it to be fairly accurate (i.e. all my ultra finishes are listed there), it’s not going…
Season of Slow
I’m an idiot. Coming out of my lackluster performance at Burning River, I knew I needed a little R&R. I had several months in between races, which provided me the perfect opportunity for some downtime. I’m a planner though so I can’t just have complete unstructured nothingness stretching out as far as the eye can…
Popularity of Ultramarathons
Most people tend to track the popularity of ultras based on number of finishes or number of races in a given year. And based on these metrics, ultra popularity rapidly increased after the year 2000 and is at its peak. This makes sense to me. The book Born to Run came out about 10 years…