Marathon des Sables Training: Weeks 9-22
A summary of training for the Marathon des Sables.
As you all know by now, I’m very excited to be running the Marathon des Sables in a month and as part of the Dreamchasers USA team no less. Despite…
Ok, it’s less than five week until I fly to Morocco for the Marathon des Sables, so I’ve got desert racing on the brain pretty much 24/7. Therefore, I was…
Despite the misimpression I may have made with my previous post about the Western States 100, no other ultramarathon means more to me. Sure, it’s the granddaddy of 100 milers,…
Dear Western States Endurance Run Foundation Board of Trustees, Transparency and accountability should be key principles for all non-profit entities and the Western States Endurance Run Foundation (the Foundation) is…
I thought iRunFar readers would enjoy and future GORE-TEX TransRockies Run participants would benefit from a consolidated account of my 2008 TransRockies Run. Speaking of future participants, registration for the…
It’s been a long time since I ran the final stage of the 2008 GORE-TEX TransRockies Run; however, it’s a day that will long stand out in my mind for…
During the first half of this year there was a ton of chatter about how stacked the field was for the 2008 Western States 100… and then the race was…
Today, was kind of a big day for me – I verbally committed to running the Marathon des Sables in Morocco next March and April! I’m so very excited for…
I DNFed. That pretty much says it all, except that I had a good time at the Iroquois Trails 100 despite DNFing. Here’s a very quick summary. A full race…
I had long intended to write a long post outlining the course for the inaugural Iroquois Trails Ultras, which feature both 50 mile and 100 mile events. Well, that ain’t…
On Day 5 of the 2008 GORE-TEX™ TransRockies™ Run I was only able to published a short post on the day’s events as I was exhausted. Below I describe the…
Hi folks, first off, I wanted to remind you that there won’t be a This Week in Running post this week, as TRIW contributor Tony Portera was off running the…
My outcome oriented friends, loyal iRunFar readers, and Google searchers have all been coming to iRunFar over the past few days looking for the final results from the 2008 GORE-TEX™…
While I still need to fill you in on 2008 GORE-TEX TransRockies Run Stages 5 and 6 as well as add photos to my reports on Stages 3 and 4,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
While many in the ultrarunning community are bummed out about the cancellation of this year’s Western States 100, many folks are already making lemonade from the Western States lemons they’ve…
The Western States Endurance Run scheduled for this weekend will be canceled! iRunFar has learned from a very reliable source that after extensive meetings with the Forest Service the WSER…
With the 2008 edition of the Western States 100 less than a week away, I thought it would be an appropriate time to post a race report from my 2005…
Ok, this is a totally shameless post, but true to my DC lawyer ways, I’m cool with that. ;-) Regardless, as you may have gathered, I’m doing a bit of…
