“I don’t go to humid places, use tents, sweat suits, heart rate monitors, GPS systems etc. I love the purity and simplicity of training hard on the trails and r...
Last weekend I traveled to Charlottesville, VA to compete in the TrailRunner Ultra Run of Champions, otherwise known as the UROC. Originally the brainchild of u...
It’s happening again. I’m leading the race, feeling strong and confident. Suddenly the course takes an unexpected turn, into a building. This seems odd but I co...
I am an iPod junkie. It all started back with the Sony Walkman, that gateway drug for so many of us. Sometime in high school, I upgraded to a Sport Walkman, see...
Imagine hearing your alarm go off at 4:45am, hastily dressing, grabbing a quick bite to eat and hitting the trail in the pre-dawn darkness. You hammer out five ...
The other day, when I was telling a friend about an epic 34-mile run I had done over the weekend, she asked, “So what is it that you’re not training for?” To he...
Recently I went for a run while visiting a college town in the Southeast. I won’t name names, but let’s just say that most of the runners I encountered exhibite...
