I HAVE THREE TAKEAWAYS from last weekend’s Singletrack Maniac 50K: Never assume a water jug is full You never really know what you’re capable of until you do it Ultrarunners are the best f**king people on the planet. (I knew that already, so this race was just another confirmation.) There’s the TL;DR version. For those …
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The Long and the Short of Running
A couple Januarys ago I had breakfast with my running coach, going over my planned race schedule. It would follow a pattern I’d established, of a target race in late May or June (100-miler or more), with shorter ultras in the spring to leapfrog up to it. So we mapped out a 50K and a …
Mt. Hood? Nope! Neighborhood. The Adventures of a Stay-At-Home Runner
THE BAD NEWS I SUSPECTED WAS COMING arrived a few days ago. The Mt. Hood 50, the other UTMB qualifying race I’d signed up for, has been cancelled. It’s a July race, so I was holding out hope. But Oregon has extended its group restrictions through September, so that was that. It’s not such a …
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The Double Dog Dare
OH, WHAT HAVE I DONE NOW. It’s a new year, and with that comes the feeling yet again that all things are possible. And in that blithe, careless frame of mind, I signed up for my first ultra of 2020. Make that two ultras, actually. On the same day. I have no excuse for this. …
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