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The Mountains Beckon

The Mountains Beckon

The Mountains Beckon June 2012 “…I went to the woods [mountains] because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…” -excerpt from Walden: 2. “Where I Lived and […]

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Chuckanut 50k: Lessons learned in my first ultra

Chuckanut 50k: Lessons learned in my first ultra

“I guess I didn’t get the memo: Nobody stops at the aid stations,” I mention to Max King as we climb up a dirt-trail about 7 miles into the Chuckanut 50k trail race. “Not this year,” Max implies that the high-level of competition meant that all the top runners were going to shave seconds whenever […]

March 20, 2012 | By More
Training For My First Ultra Marathon

Training For My First Ultra Marathon

After finishing the 2012 Houston Olympic Marathon Trials in January I decided that my next race would have to be longer than a marathon in distance. The idea of running an ultra marathon (technically anything longer than a marathon, but according to some purists a race of at least 50+ miles) seemed like a fun […]

February 27, 2012 | By More