Sixteen years ago, I started A Trail Runners Blog. What began as a “fitness diary using this new-fangled Internet thing” quickly blossomed into a decade-long multimedia experiment to
I finished. I know, terrible way to start a story with the end,but it was 100 miles. It’s not about the end,it’s about the journey;the adventure;the struggle;the
I spent the weekend of June 10-12 in the Mount Laguna Recreation Area for the San Diego 100. Scott Mills puts on a top notch race on some amazing trails and I was fortunate to have time to
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