My 2025 race season has officially begun. Last weekend I headed up to Traverse City for the Bigfoot Snowshoe Race. It’s just what the name says. You put on snowshoes and follow either a 5K or 10K course through Timber Ridge Resort, part on groomed ski trails and part bushwhacked “singletrack” through the woods, including …
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This Running Life
Life would be so much simpler if I hadn’t started running. This fall has been ten solid weeks of continual “busy mode” with any time I haven’t spent at my office job consumed with working races, running them, or travel. All my own fault; I knew what was coming and signed up for the commitments …
Must be the Shoes! Bigfoot Snowshoe 5K Recap
"So am I giving you my shoes again this year?" Jeff asked me. I was at the south Traverse City Running Fit, picking up my Bigfoot Snowshoe Race packet. Jeff is the store manager, and before the 2015 race he'd seen me struggle with the rental shoes. He'd very generously loaned me his own top of the …
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Big Feet, Cold Hands, Hot Shoes
"HERE'S THE WORLD'S MOST PROLIFIC RUNNER," I heard over the loudspeaker as I charged across the finish line. As much charge as I could muster wearing snowshoes, but I tried my best to make it look good. Saturday was the Bigfoot Snowshoe 5K race in Traverse City. One year ago here I began my quest …
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