Tag: Running for The Hansons
Mt. Washington Race Recap
Mt. Washington Race Recap: 6/21/12 My decision to move to Boulder to train at altitude in the mountains became more solidified after this past weekend. I’m not sure if my red blood cell count had actually increased, but when I took the lead about 2.5 miles into the 2012 Mt. Washington road race last […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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