Archive - The Rush of it All

Re. Eastern States 100: If you haven’t heard, the creeks kept rising… (but the camaraderie is more important than any formal event.)

Aug 21 •

Lord willing and the creek don't rise...

It's Eastern States weekend!

Aug 9 •

July 2024

The Baldy Climb

45 years ago, I climbed a mountain at Philmont in New Mexico. It set my trajectory for a lifetime of adventures in distance and wonderment.

Jul 18 •

June 2024

In the Stillness After the Race

Intensity begets stillness, and from that stillness comes the next intensity, and the cycle ebbs and flows just like that… Maybe for the rest of your…

Jun 24 •

May 2024

Beyond the Turn

15 years ago I followed an impulse and turned left instead of right, off of the road and into my first real trail run.

May 9 •

December 2023

Paradox, calm and bright

A Christmas letter from Iraq, 2003

Dec 22, 2023 •

Throughlines (part 2)

Running as throughline was no longer a romantic idea or a useful tactic, but a lived physical fact. Having that, I could view my current situation as…

Dec 17, 2023 •

Throughlines (part 1)

The real power is continuity, the fact of a throughline that is solidly anchored in your past, and that you can see leading clearly into your future,

Dec 10, 2023 •

October 2023

UTMB Gone Astray

Can an intervention bring them back? (I’d like us to help New UTMB remember what Old UTMB was like, and help them find their way back to that. Because I…

Oct 31, 2023 •

September 2023

Change of Mission (Iraq, 2003)

Yesterday morning, we were going home

Sep 11, 2023 •

Ultra Tour du Mont Blanc... in the final 25 miles of this race, I was the best I’ve been so far as a runner...

Sep 1, 2023 •

July 2023

Thank you, Hardrock

Emerging from my post-Western slump

Jul 18, 2023 •

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