June 16th we did a hike I’ve been wanting to do for several months, really ever since learning of it. Mt Baldy is a bare peak in the Alpine Lakes, part of a large ridge between Lakes Kachess and Cle …
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Tech Frustration!
In my day job, I work in systems engineering and data science for a hospital. But I’m a weird combination of tech-geek and luddite. I don’t like a lot of modern smart-tech because it all thinks it’s smarter than you …
Mount Ellinor Trail
For the first time since moving back to Seattle, I returned to the Olympic Mountains, with BB in tow. We decided to try to bag a peak on the peninsula. We found Mt. Ellinor, which seemed a good candidate. Just …
Taming the Tiger.
Saturday, undertrained and still a bit injured, BB and I took on Tiger Claw, a new trail race that’s the brainchild of Ethan Newberry, who along with his wife Kimberly Teshima-Newberry, hosts the popular Ginger Runner podcast. Tiger Claw is …
A Goal Achieved.
For the past several years we’ve been thinking about and talking about doing an ultramarathon. I don’t remember when I first heard of their existence. I remember hearing about some crazy death-defying race through Death Valley called Badwater many years …
Disappointment and Adaptation.
Well, as feared, the Fragrance Lake 50km trail race was canceled (or possible postponed). Bellingham is under a 6″ thick sheet of ice, and the trails on Chuckanut mountain are icy, snowy, slushy, and dangerous. The access road that would …
Tapering, and a New Race!
Well, it’s about 10 days until our ultra, and we’re officially in the taper. We did 17.5 miles on slush, snow, and ice for our last really long run. Now we just have a nice little 8-10 miler this weekend …
Anxiety du Jour.
We’ve been really good with our training. Well, except for bailing on the second long runs. I just don’t recover enough to do them. But I’ve been getting the weekday runs, and the long run in. We’ve done our three …
Success! And Thoughts on Failure.
Wow! The big weeks went by fast. I learned so much. First of all, we got all the big days in. On January 5th, it was 18 miles on Squak Mountain with 5,000′ of gain: Then, on January 12th, we …
The Big Training Weeks.
This weekend is the beginning of our three biggest training weeks of the race prep. Saturday we have 18 miles, Sunday we have 11. For the 18, I’ve mapped out a 9-mile loop on Squak Mountain, which we’ll do twice …
Boundary Conditions 