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Final Update Before Tahoe Rim Trail 100
Is it just me or does everything go crazy just prior leaving town? Seems like life just goes on without incident month after month then a week before I leave town every time BAM! POW! WHAM! holy chaos Batman…everything goes … Continue reading
Chasing Women and Drinking All Night Long
In your 20’s when you go out chasing women and drinking all night long it was called “sowing wild oats”…now 30 years later it’s called “ultra running”. Although the actions and ultimate goals have changed drastically it really isn’t that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrenaline Night Run, Aravaipa, Insomniac Series, Jay Danek, Tahoe Rim Trail 100
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Humphreys Peak – 12,633’ Above Sea Level
Just a few weeks after running Rim to Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon I was back at it last Saturday running with friend Andy Gage in the Kachina Peaks Wilderness – Coconino National Forest. By itself the Kachina … Continue reading
Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim (R2R2R)
Last Saturday, May 11th, I ran R2R2R in the Grand Canyon for the first time. It turned out to be one of those great moments in life that lived up to all the hype I created in my mind before … Continue reading
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Tagged Grand Canyon, Phantom Ranch, R2R2R, Rim to Rim to Rim, Tahoe Rim Trail 100
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Mission Accomplished!
My Quest to Run 100 Miles (in less than 24 hours) is over. On Sunday morning, 23 hours, 45 minutes and 43 seconds after I started Javelina Jundred I finished 101.4 miles! It never would’ve happened if not for the … Continue reading
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In the Home Stretch.
I have 18 days before I toe the line at Javelina Jundred in my attempt to run over 100 miles in less than 24 hours. It’s unbelievable to me how fast the time has gone since I officially started training … Continue reading
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1000 Miles and Still Going Strong!
Yesterday I passed the 1,000 mile mark since beginning my Javelina Jundred training on May 31. Having endured a summer of training in the dry heat of Arizona and the hottest August in history it seems so long ago that … Continue reading
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The Long and the Short of it.
I’ve had two really good back to back weeks of running. The past two weeks I ran 80.50 and 82.25 miles respectively but they were completely different types of miles with different purposes. Week of 8/22 Week of 8/29 Mon … Continue reading
You don’t know what you don’t know…
I’m starting to feel that way about running 100 miles in one day. The training is going well and I’m way ahead of my original training schedule, because I’ve been adding extra miles daily to the schedule. But as I … Continue reading
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WooHoo…I get a rest week!
Prior to this week I ran 18 out of the past 21 days, taking off only Mondays and logging more than 210 miles in the process. In the past when I trained for a race I normally blew off my … Continue reading
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