The past month has been a strange one for me in terms of running. I’ve run on some amazing trails all over the world: Alaska; The Yukon; Banff; Colorado; and France, to name a few. With all this travel though it’s been very hard to get into any kind …
Only 361 Days…
… Until UTMB next year.
Only 361 Days…
… Until UTMB next year.
UTMB Final Thoughts
Rather than doing a race report for my abbreviated UTMB race I thought I’d do a list of the top 10 reasons why this trip over here was totally worth the time and money even though the race was cancelled after 3 hours of running:10. Most of the cost of …
And Then Almost Again
I’m in Chamonix. Several of the UTMB runners are now out racing a last minute 98k version after the actual UTMB was canceled last night.The decision not to run this new race was actually pretty easy for me. I didn’t find out for certain that this rac…
But Not Quite…
Wow. This is going to take awhile to sink in. 3 hours (about 20 miles) into UTMB and the race was canceled due to severe weather. I was running smooth and feeling great, right where I wanted to be about 5 minutes behind the leaders. We didn’t have …
Almost
Chamonix has been treating me very well. Yesterday was a great day of relaxing with some friends, new and old, and now it’s almost time to get on with this other thing that’s been looming on the horizon for a few days now:UTMB is set to start here in …
You Know You’ve Made It As An Athlete When…
… You get drug tested.Apparently when the UTMB said they were going to do random drug testing they meant random drug testing of top runners. Not sure how that qualifies as random. Nonetheless I guess it’s a good thing. I’d like to think that it’s ove…
Abroad
About to take to the air tomorrow morning to fly over to Europe for UTMB.Just got settled in here in Colorado and it’s off on another adventure.I’ve been really happy here in Nederland so far. The weather is amazingly nice and I’ve been finding all kin…
Hitting The Road
I’m leaving tomorrow to drive southbound to Colorado. Have gotten some great UTMB training in the past two weeks. Lots of wonderful mountain exploration. Sure am going to miss the mountains here around Juneau but I hear Colorado has some mountains t…