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Nibbled by Ducks
...but then I hit the Hardrock lottery
Dec 13, 2024
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Jeff Calvert
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August 2024
Fare Foreward
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, 2024
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Jeff Calvert
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Lord willing and the creek don't rise...
It's Eastern States weekend!
Aug 9, 2024
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Jeff Calvert
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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, 2024
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Jeff Calvert
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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, 2024
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Jeff Calvert
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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, 2024
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Jeff Calvert
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December 2023
Paradox, calm and bright
A Christmas letter from Iraq, 2003
Dec 22, 2023
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Jeff Calvert
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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
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Jeff Calvert
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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
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Jeff Calvert
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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
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Jeff Calvert
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September 2023
Change of Mission (Iraq, 2003)
Yesterday morning, we were going home
Sep 11, 2023
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Jeff Calvert
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My UTMB (2017)
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
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Jeff Calvert
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