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Here I am at the Sibley Aid Station on the return (~mile 34). Feeling pretty good right here! Just keep moving!

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Dick Collins Firetrails 50 Miler- 10:53:42 chip time (10:54:23 gun time). I qualified for Western States, now I just gotta win the lottery (I have a 10% chance).

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Homemade Gu Recipe

So I started making my own Gu at home, it was getting super-expensive to keep buying a case every 2-3 weeks considering the fact that I now have to bring like 10-15 of them on runs upward of 4 hours. … Continue reading

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Training Log(s): Long Overdue

I realized I haven’t posted any training logs since early April; looks like the last one was right before the Grizzly Peak Marathon. Well, I’ll post all my monthly logs since: April: 141.51 miles with 13 days of rest (ran … Continue reading

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YOU’RE LIVING THE DREAM!!!!!!! I look up to you and am already absolutely in love with this blog. Where you’re at now is where I want to go someday. Tell me, how did you start and make your way up? Or rather, what made you start on your climb up? Answer both, I’m excited. Hot damn looking through these pages has made me want to get up and run, if not for this damned injury at the moment

I started running a little over 2 years ago- I tried some endurance bike stuff right before I started running (an “alley cat” race, you heard of those? If not, they’re kinda like a scavenger hunt on a bike). I … Continue reading

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Wear less shoe: the less weight you carry, particularly at the end of a lever, the faster you’ll be able to go without increasing your energy cost. Dropping 1 ounce off a pair of running shoes will save you lifting … Continue reading

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Here’s some race photos today, taken by Eric from Ultra Runner Podcast. Official Results, I love that they’re calling it a 55k. (I self-timed so I came up with the 7:07:58, it was actually 7:08:00.1)

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Inside Trail’s K2 Summit 50k

I finished 11th overall. 10th male. 3rd in the 30-39 age group (I got a sweet medal, faux bronze). It was actually 54.7 kilometers (34 miles) with 5,980 feet of climbing. And it was between 92-99 degrees Fahrenheit from about … Continue reading

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A little sneak preview…

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from ~9500 ft somewhere off the Hooper Diversion Trail John Muir Wilderness Sierra National Forest, CA

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