At the beginning of December, I ran the Colossal/Vail 50 miler. It’s the first ultra I’ve gone back to a second time, and kicked off my second attempt at the Southern Arizona Triple 50. Even though there have been a few races that I have really loved and thought about going back to revisit, I… Continue reading 2023 Colossal Vail 50 Mile Race
The AZT Project: Seeing Arizona From Top to Bottom, One Section at a Time
At the beginning of 2020, as I was prepping for Oracle Rumble pretty much already knowing before the race that I wasn’t going to finish it, I came up with a sort of consolation project, but also a bigger one: I was going to cover the remaining miles I had left of the Arizona Trail… Continue reading The AZT Project: Seeing Arizona From Top to Bottom, One Section at a Time
Reflecting On a Global Pandemic and Its Effects
Nobody’s asking – because nobody reads this – but if they did, they might ask why I stopped posting for nearly four years. If they saw the dates of my last posts before that time and saw December 2019, they’d probably have a guess, and that guess would probably be at least partly right. Everybody… Continue reading Reflecting On a Global Pandemic and Its Effects
Trail Runner Buys a Bike
Once upon a time, I was a mountain biker. It was mostly back in the mountain biking boom of the 90s, but like most things I do, I got out of it later than most. Late to the party, late to leave – that’s me, over and over again all my life. My wife started… Continue reading Trail Runner Buys a Bike
2019-2020 Southern AZ Triple 50, a DNF Story
The Southern Arizona Triple 50 is a series of three 50-mile races done over the course of a single fall-into-winter “season.” It was a project I’d had my eye on for a few years. Back when I was still working up to doing my first 100 miler, I’d thought about rolling it into my training… Continue reading 2019-2020 Southern AZ Triple 50, a DNF Story
Backpacking Arizona Trail Passages 16-17: My First Solo Trip
After deciding to section hike/run/bike the Arizona Trail in 2020, I decided that one of my first trips should be the passages closest to me, being the section between Picketpost Mountain and the trailhead nearest to Kearny. With relatively easy access at the start and finish of the hike and short travel to get to… Continue reading Backpacking Arizona Trail Passages 16-17: My First Solo Trip
2019 in Review – December
2019 Gilbert 12Ks of Christmas My final race of the year was the Gilbert 12Ks of Christmas, an annual tradition that goes back to 2012. I ran the 6K that year, and every year since then I have run the 12K. 2013 was my fastest 12K there, and every year since then has seen me… Continue reading 2019 in Review – December
2019 in Review – November
2019 Ragnar Trail AZ More races! The first one was Ragnar Trail AZ, which—if you’ve read much of this blog (haha, nobody has)—you know is an event with a lot of history for me, and I love it. I fell out of love with paying the registration fees for it, though. For the last couple… Continue reading 2019 in Review – November
2019 in Review – October
San Tan 50k October was a lot of fun. I did a long, hot, grindy 50k training run out at San Tan and then it was special events of some kind or other for the rest of the month.
2019 in Review – September
Mt. Ord We started off September with a Labor Day hike up Mount Ord. Kris had never seen this place I was going to run at all the time during the summer, and she wanted to get a look at it.