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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 […]
Training Week: March 24-30th, 2013 – prep for Lake Sonoma 50
My quads got beat-up from the Tarawera 100km. Despite taking 5 days totally off from running after the race (on March 16, 2013) I can still feel a dull ache in them. That is to be expected though. I’ve dealt with lots of post-marathon fatigue and I’ve overtrained to the point of compromising my health […]
Training Talk #4: Distance Running Principles
As promised, I’m going to continue on with my YouTube “Training Talk” video series. In this video, I rant about 3 core principles or concepts that I’ve found over the last 15 years to have been most helpful in my distance running career. Also, I start off by listing off some major influences that have […]
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