Over the Peak and Through the Pines

Katie and I had just returned from our yearly Christmas Pilgrimage to Missouri (seeing her side of the family and a certain bulldog named ...

Prelude, 2009-January 2017 A year ago Katie and I drove up to our cabin in Wrightwood, CA -not for the usual Friday-Sunday weekend trip...

The 2016 Angeles Crest 100 Mile, Men's race preview (live tracking Saturday is available at  www.ac100.com/live  ) The wilderness exempt...

This weekend I spent some of my more energetic waking hours running through the San Gabriel's in the hottest temperatures seen this yea...

It's no secret that over the past 8 years of knowing Katie (7 of dating her) that I've grown and matured to appreciate her a lot...

After a few false starts in the past year, I've finally started to believe I'm not just running better because I say I want to run b...

In a perfect world, I'd never get sick and running would always be fair. Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago, I got the flu and had to t...

I posted the below excerpt from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest  and found it to be topical to so much of what this blog has tried ...

Perhaps my favorite thing about ultrarunning is its culture. Sure, there's an argument that there's a good amount of liberal "s...

Listening to a blurb at the start of This American Life's podcast " Family Physics ", a man recounted his feelings on being up...

As mentioned previously, I signed up for the Avalon 50 miler with an honest expectation of experiencing ultrarunning's stern and bitter ...