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Transvulcania Race Report (2014)

Transvulcania Race Report (2014)

SUERTE  (luck)   “When you get to the top of The Volcano you can stop.” These words became my mantra as I struggled to negotiate the technical rocks of La Palma’s GR-131 trail route. I had ascended about 11,000 feet of vertical in the past 24 miles and had accumulated a significant amount of fatigue. […]

May 14, 2014 | By | 41 Replies More
Moving Down To The Marathon

Moving Down To The Marathon

Moving Down To The Marathon   Photo Credit: CrusePhoto. com,  Also on Twitter at @CrusePhoto.   I ran my very first marathon at the 2007 Houston Marathon in 2:22:21 missed the Olympic Trials standard by 21 seconds. It was brutal. Almost exactly 7 years later (yesterday, January 19th) I ran the 2014 Carlsbad Marathon in […]

January 21, 2014 | By | 43 Replies More
Lake Sonoma 50: An Unsustainable Pace

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 […]

April 22, 2013 | By | 38 Replies More