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
Category: Hiking
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 – August
Backpacking the Coconino Rim August’s big event was a backpacking trip up the Arizona Trail along the Stagecoach course out to the Coconino Rim. During the race, I had gone through a lot of this area in the dark, and when sunrise came toward the end of it, it was so beautiful to me that… Continue reading 2019 in Review – August
2019 in Review – June
Prescott Circle Trail In June, I went back to the Prescott Circle Trail with the intent of doing a through hike of it over three days and two nights. I have fallen in love with both backpacking and the Arizona Trail, and one of my long term goals is to eventually hike the whole distance… Continue reading 2019 in Review – June
2019 in Review – April
Picketpost Mountain April was mostly coasting. Mostly. With no big races coming up soon, a lot of the month was just taking it easy, but Kris and I went out one Saturday and did something at the other end of the spectrum from “easy,” and hiked/climbed Picketpost Mountain. It’s one of those things that is… Continue reading 2019 in Review – April
2019 in Review – January
For a lot of reasons, I haven’t been blogging much lately. Over the next few days, I’m going to do a bunch of mini-posts to catch up on some of the notable things I did in 2019. Enjoy! San Tan Scramble Volunteering I started the year by volunteering at the San Tan Scramble with my… Continue reading 2019 in Review – January
My Worst Great Adventure: 24 Hours of the Prescott Circle Trail
When I ran Javelina Jundred 100k in 2016, the biggest surprise I had in graduating to that distance from 50k was what the last four, five, six hours felt like. I knew it wasn’t going to be fun, but I wasn’t ready for how not-fun it was going to be. And then when I ran… Continue reading My Worst Great Adventure: 24 Hours of the Prescott Circle Trail