For my birthday weekend, I wanted to have a big adventure and make some progress on my Arizona Trail project. I also wanted to be on a mountain, but the mountain was expensive, so I settled for being near the base of it. So the plan was to do the climb up Mount Lemmon to… Continue reading The Mount Lemmon Birthday Beatdown
Category: Trail Running
Confessions of a Lanterne Rouge: The Final Finisher of the 2023-2024 Southern AZ Triple 50
The lanterne rouge is the competitor in last place in the Tour de France. It’s a phrase that comes from the French for “Red Lantern” and refers to the red lantern hung on the rear vehicle of a passenger railway train or the brake van of a freight train, which signalmen would look for in… Continue reading Confessions of a Lanterne Rouge: The Final Finisher of the 2023-2024 Southern AZ Triple 50
2024 Old Pueblo 50: Closing Out the Triple 50
It was the second of March, 2024, at Old Pueblo 50, the final race of the Southern Arizona Triple 50. And it was time to bring it home. I had mixed feelings going into this race. I enjoyed it when I ran it in 2020, so I knew I was going to enjoy it more… Continue reading 2024 Old Pueblo 50: Closing Out the Triple 50
2024 Oracle Rumble 50 Mile: Dealing with Unfinished Business
I’ve DNF’d two races so far in my running career, but when you look at Ultrasignup, you only see one. The story you don’t get from Ultrasignup is that when I was out here in 2020 and had a bad time both out there on course, and with some life stuff before the race, I… Continue reading 2024 Oracle Rumble 50 Mile: Dealing with Unfinished Business
2023 Colossal Vail 50 Mile Race
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
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
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.