Final day of 2008 GORE-TEX TransRockies Run

Martin and I are ready to race. The legs are strong, our toughness grooves cut, our race strategy intact, the cameras are left at home. It’s race time! We’ve placed higher almost every stage and have marched up the overall standings. Can we finish top 5 today? Can we move up one spot in the [...]

2008 GORE-TEX TransRockies Run – Day 5 (original post)

I am very tired. Yup. Very tired. I want to just may fall asleep on my laptop at 5 in the evening. Give me a cool bed and I could have fallen asleep at pretty much any point after Wings of Glory finished today. I am not alone. I was sitting under the Salomon tent [...]

2008 GORE-TEX TransRockies Run – Day 4

Wow! It was another gorgeous (if brutally tough) day of running in the Rockies! Wings of Glory continues to run well and move up in the standings every day. If TRR was a baseball game and WoG was a baseball team, it would be the bottom of the 6th and our starter would still be [...]

2008 Gore-Tex TransRockies Run – Day 3

Each stage of the 2008 Gore-Tex TransRockies Run keeps on getting better and better. That goes for the course, team Wings of Glory’s fortune, and my personal experience. Actually, today may have been one of the best days of my life. While this post starts with a race report, many of my most meaningful memories [...]

This Week In Running (Double Edition – Weeks of 8/30 + 8/31 and 9/6 + 9/7)

Good morning, and welcome back to another edition of This Week In Running (“TWIR”), brought to you in part by iRunFar.com, your source for mud, mountains, miles and so much more. TWIR is off to the Grand Tetons for the Grand Teton 100 Mile Race and the Labor Day holiday. Thus, today’s edition of TWIR [...]

2008 Gore-Tex TransRockies Run – Day 2

There was no stage of the Gore-Tex TransRockies Run that I was looking forward to more than today’s stage over Hope Pass. It’s not that I wasn’t or am not looking forward to the other stages; rather, it’s that I’ve run over Hope Pass a couple of times before and it’s awesome. It manages to [...]

2008 Gore-Tex TransRockies Run – Day 1

It’s 10 p.m., I’m sitting on a bench outside a restroom, and I’ve got a 6 a.m. wake up scheduled for tomorrow – Day 2 of the 2008 Gore-Tex TransRockies Run. Life is good… even better than yesterday(!?), but with the above in mind, I’m going picture heavy and a bit more stream of consciousness [...]

2008 Gore-Tex TransRockies Run Prelude

I sit here in Buena Vista, Colorado having had one of my best days in recent memory and the second annual Gore-Tex TransRockies Run hasn’t even begun yet! The day began, with Adam Chase, Ryan Padilla, my TRR teammate Martin Gaffuri, and I leaving Boulder, CO around 10 this morning to head up to Beaver [...]

Running Post-Race Recovery

For those competing in the Gore-Tex TransRockies Run next week, the time for training is over. While strategy and perseverance will undoubtedly influence how individuals perform in this grueling 6-day stage race across the Colorado Rockies, the athletes’ ability to recover for subsequent stages will have a huge impact on performance. Below are some tips [...]

TransRockies Run Final Training Update (July 18-August 21)

As my training for next week’s Gore-Tex TransRockies Run stage race has progressed, my training updates have tailed off. For a while the updates were weekly (May 5-11; May 12-18; May 19-25; May 26-June 1; June 2-8) and then there was July’s 6-week period update (June 9-July 17). While my training has not been ideal, [...]

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