Another day to sleep in…. ahhhhhh. Gotta rest up for the big weekend pacing Michael Wedemeyer at the Wasatch 100. […]
Update 2: Through Big Mountain (39.4 miles) Kyle Skaggs is in the lead about 40 minutes ahead of a pack […]
“… on the seventh day I rested.” Park City from the Mid-Mountain Trail. Besides the weather, the one consistent feature […]
“…it’s been sublime the entire time.” Ah, a recovery day. I awoke to hot coffee and an everything bagel with […]
“… and there I was, shirtless, leading a horse bearing my injured buddy out of a canyon in Grand Teton […]
“…hula hooping was much easier as a kid.” View east from the western slope of the Tetons. Too much to […]
Each of the past two days I got a chance to hit the trails in the Montrail Streaks. They continue […]
“Out on those trails, I wanted to run…” Prelude: Arlington, VA to Park City, UtahAfter flying into SLC, Steve and […]
As previously mentioned, I’ll be fit and wear testing the forthcoming Montrail Streak. After a bit of fretting earlier in […]
I’m so excited about my pending trip out west and can hardly sit here at my desk while waiting for […]
Here’s most of an email I sent to a fellow ultrarunner who is running the Wasatch 100 in two weekends. […]
I just got off the phone with Andy Jones-Wilkins (his blog). I’m really excited to be pacing him at the […]
Ok, so I still haven’t had time to describe my pending Rocky Mountain trip very well. Here’s the low down […]
These days I don’t often hit the trails. I live in an urban area with the near trail of significant […]
Woohoo! I’ll be fit and wear testing the new Montrail Streak that is scheduled to come out in Spring 2008. […]
I have been and remain uncontrollably busy. Between unbelievable work weeks, visiting guests, and other commitments, I’ve been going non-stop […]
My running week sucked last week. Maybe I decided to take a break between a long day and a track […]
Last night, I depressed the clutch of a standard car for the first time ever. Coming home from an errand, […]
I’ve only got time for a short post, but here goes. I’ve been short on time the past couple days, […]
My past two workouts, I’ve not adhered to my Hadd plan. Last Tuesday I felt like crap running my sub […]
Holy Cow, I ran a 50 mile week without a race. Ok, so my week wasn’t all that impressive, but […]
Folks, I’m just back from the track and headed out to two shindigs this evening, but this is progress. Tonight, […]
Ok, what follows is a stream off consciousness response to Loomis‘s comment in response to my previous post regarding the […]
“Alex, what are robots with proprioception?” This article reminds me of a chat about proprioception I had with teammate/clubmate Greg […]
So after work tonight, I have to go to some swanky Asian-Latin fusion restaurant for an “optional” dinner with the […]
To start, after a few good training weeks, my two previous running weeks have been awful. I think I missed […]
Ok, I’ve got to be mighty careful the next few days. After averaging 30 miles a week for the past […]
I’m going to try something new. Every time (or nearly every time) I run a Hadd workout, I’ll write about […]
You guessed it, that someone was me. That’s right, I officially withdrew from the Vermont 100 yesterday. It’s been the […]
As you likely know, today marks a major annual astronomical occurrence…. ONLY THREE MONTHS UNTIL AUTUMN!!! :-D For me, autumn […]
My best days end up with me dirty, sore, and exhausted. Those days are satisfying. I love those days. Laurel […]
A big shout out to all my peeps running the Bighorn 100 this weekend… and there are a ton of […]
My recovery seems to be going along alright following Saturday’s outing in Pennsylvania. Here’s a day-by-day how my recovery’s gone. […]
While I haven’t posted a race report for LHU yet, I’ve corresponded with some ultra buddies about it. My summary […]
First, I must say that I’m awfully surprised with my performance at the Laurel Highlands Ultra on Saturday. You were […]
Oh boy. Tomorrow is the Laurel Highlands Ultra. Last fall when I pondered my ’07 racing schedule, I had hope […]
Today, I had three memorable firsts. (1) I made my first mortgage payment. Only 359 to go. :-) And since […]
Here are the results of Hadd mini-test 1 (baseline). (doc file explaining Hadd mini-test) This test is likely slow biased. […]
Tomorrow is the Old Dominion 100 Mile Cross Country Run, the second of the two “Old Dominion” 100 mile races […]
What I need, unlike a hole in my head, is a fall East Coast 100 miler to run. I don’t […]
I think that the next time I hit the track I’ll run my first Hadd mini-test. The mini-test is a […]
At the moment, I’m on a plane flying back from a great weekend in the Rockies with my dad. After […]
I forgot to mention one aspect of my workout last night – my runner’s high DURING the workout. While I’ve […]
While some friends are off galavanting around the world and running cruise intervals, I hit the track for some fun. […]
Continuing with the sea change in my training regimen, I hit the track again last night with the plan on […]
Ok, super quick update here. (1) I have no idea how much I’m running these days, only it’s not much. […]
Last week was not a good week for my training. I ditch running Miwok and instead took the whole week […]
I just hopped out the shower and am about to head out on a run. Now, I wouldn’t normally share […]
Lots to catch up on in the near future, such as why I didn’t finish the Bull Run Run 50 […]
The other way to put it is – I’m buying a house. I put in an offer on a single […]
While I’ve gone through some dry spells in posting, I think I’ve been pretty consistent for a while now. I’ve […]
Sometimes I’m awfully dumb. I might as well be banging my head against the wall for all I learn from […]
The VERY quick summary of today’s run at HAT. I finished 5th, right in the middle of my 5 finishes […]
While I wouldn’t consider myself fully recovered, I do feel that I’m on the way back. Why do I think […]
Synopsis of Week’s Training:It didn’t take me very long this week to figure out that I was in a running […]
Today, my sister ran in a new product (for her), a pair of “Ice Runners” that are better known as […]
Doesn’t my sister look like a nature trail ultra runner? Here she is 21.5 miles into her first trail race, […]
I’ve been heeding recommendations of y’all and the advice I would normally give others and have taken the past 3 […]
I’ve got the funk…. or at least I’m in one. I’m in a running funk and I risk falling into […]
Ok, so I was not quick nor did I get dirty today at WTC, but this post is both those […]
Phew! It’s been an exhausting last week, some of it pleasant, some of it not. I had a great long […]
A friend of mine is headed south to Central America this weekend and that got me thinking about tasty rum. […]
I have it on good authority that the Montrail Slipstream that briefly appeared on the Montrail website and which I […]
