Saturday,April 30th I headed down to the hills outside of San Jose,CA to lace up a new pair of Wildcats for the Quicksilver 50 Mile race at the Almaden Quicksilver County
Exhaustion. That’s what I was thinking about today on my very easy and very short recovery run while taking a break midway to check out the view of the snow-capped Mt. Hamilton across
It may be just a coincidence that two of the most competitive trail 50k’s in the U.S. are a week apart. Both events sell out the day registration opens,and
After last year’s North Face Endurance Challenge,I had no intention of signing up for another ultra-marathon,but when two of your good friends are Brett Rivers and Larissa Polischuk,its harder than
The Tahoe Rim 100. I had been signed up for this race since early morning of January 1,minutes after the race registration opened. Tahoe was my goal race for mid-2010 and I was interested
“Tahoe training.. Tahoe training..” This was my mantra with each breath as I simply tried to zen-out. I was about 7 hours into the Jemez Mountains 50 Mile in Los Alamos, New Mexico and the course
Let me just say that, for me personally, 2010 has packed a life’s worth of emotional highs and lows into less than 6 months. . .and I haven’t even run Western States yet. After running
Miwok. Home trails. A stacked field. Friends running, pacing, spectating. I was really looking forward to running the Miwok 100k but it always seemed like a date far
My full photo set from the 2010 AR50 can be found HERE The American River 50 Mile site can be
The Lake Sonoma 50 Mile. On Saturday, March 27 Larissa and I headed north of San Francisco for a relaxing trip up to the wine country. Relaxing of course being John Medinger’s Lake