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Cayuga Trails 50: Shifting Perspectives
Terra chips? Such a gourmet aid station treat! As soon as the vegetable-oil-salt-beet combo hit my taste buds I felt more in equilibrium. Pringles, Lays, and even fish-flavored potato chips in New Zealand had hit my lips midway through ultra trail races before, but this Terra chip consumption (at a 20-something-mile aid station) during the [...]
Training Week: May 19-25, 2013: Cayuga Trails 50 prep
Training Week: May 19th to May 25th, 2013. After taking a couple days off after the Transvulcania ultra (followed by a relatively low mileage week), I put in one of my best weeks of training so far this year. I’ve only just began to track vertical gain for each training week, but I think [...]
Need More Vert! Transvulcania Race Report
Need More Vert! Transvulcania Race Report I need more vert! Two days before the Transvulcania Ultramarathon on the volcano island of La Palma I suddenly feared my training this whole year had been totally inadequate. Looking up at the sheer vertical slopes leading up from the beach at sea level to the top of the [...]
Lake Sonoma 50: An Unsustainable Pace
“This pace is unsustainable.” My inner voice repeated this over and over as Chris Vargo and I split a couple sub 7-min miles about 15 miles into the Lake Sonoma 50. We were on a gorgeous, rolling single-track complete with water crossings, lake views, forests and meadows. I knew after the first aid station 11.5 [...]
So, I’m sponsored by a Beer Company now…
I noticed a couple things when I started doing ultra-trail-mountain races last year: 1. A tight-knit community of like-minded people that are very supportive of each other, AND 2. Runners that really love to kick back after a long run, eat a ton of great food and drink tasty beer (those fellow runners over the [...]
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