“Journey” feels like a truly appropriate term. If you follow us elsewhere, you may recall I first registered for a 50 miler late in 2019, scheduled for… May 2020. That was of course canceled due to COVID. I recognized then …
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Training in Plague Times.
“We live in plague times.” That’s the phrase G has taken to saying when I comment on how… weird… things are. I like to think it’s a tiny bit tongue in cheek—yet also so accurate. In December, I decided to …
Why Am I Running?
Late last spring, I was reading The Happy Runner. I had finished my first ultra (a 55K) a month or two before and wondered, What’s next, and how do I want to get there? David and Megan Roche have a …
Embracing the Runners We Are Today
Dear runner, You do objectively amazing things. Maybe you run fast. Maybe you run far. Maybe you run up and down mountains or through country sides or along beaches. Maybe, in your words, you “just” run, or even jog. But …
Seasons of Training.
When we first started this blog, I talked about our big goal race: our first 50K. We’re less than a week out from the race we’d registered for. But we won’t be there for the 50K. Time to Refocus This …
Boundary Conditions 