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White River 50 Race Report
White River 50 Race Recap: July 2012 The start of the 2012 Whiter River 50. Photo by Glenn Tachiyama. “Okay you’re in uncharted territory now,” I thought to myself as I glanced at my $35 GPS unit which had just clicked over to 32.0 miles. My longest running effort prior to this magical distance was when […]
The View Is Worth The Climb
“Hills are your friend.” My dad used to always say this to me before races and difficult training sessions that involved rolling terrain. Several years of racing cross country, marathons, (and now trail ultras), I hear that statement as positive self talk in my mind, although it is slightly modified to “Uphills are your friend.” […]
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 […]
A Runner with a Social Media Problem
Have you caught the bug? I have. Symptoms include having 3 or more of the following accounts and checking all of them at least tri-weekly: Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, WordPress, eBlogger, and (of course) Flotrack. (note: please comment and add anymore sites that you think are worthy of being in this description as […]
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