So long to the world I live in and the life I know! For a week or so, anyway. Yes, I'm in Nevada, about to enter Black Rock City on the playa, for my first-ever Burning Man experience. While I'm immersed in whatever mind-blowing universe they've built there, I will be disconnected from "defaultia" as …
Category: Ultramarathons
Done Lots of Sweating – Time to Burn!
BEEN A LITTLE WARM THIS SUMMER, hasn’t it. But it hasn’t stopped me from training. Even the VM150, with its two days of 90+ degree heat and blazing sun, was useful to me. What for? Well, in three weeks I head to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, for a small social gathering they call …
Veterans Memorial 150, Part 3: Bringing Home the Buckle
Concluding my Veterans Memorial 150 race recap: It’s early Sunday morning on the Pere Marquette Trail, finally cooler after a beastly hot Saturday. I’m running well, but another hot day – and trouble – lie ahead… The Field Thins Out I arrived at AS 8 (mile 80) around 1:00 a.m. and eased gratefully into a …
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Veterans Memorial 150, Part 2: Saturday
My ultras this year have followed a pattern; feel stiff and low on energy the day before, sleep well, and wake up feeling fine on race morning. And so it proved with the Veterans Memorial. I got to the starting line Saturday morning fired up and eager to run. The race officially began at 8 …
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