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Nibbled by Ducks
...but then I hit the Hardrock lottery
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Jeff Calvert
5
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.)
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Jeff Calvert
7
Lord willing and the creek don't rise...
It's Eastern States weekend!
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Jeff Calvert
3
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.
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Jeff Calvert
5
Paradox, calm and bright
A Christmas letter from Iraq, 2003
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Jeff Calvert
3
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…
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Jeff Calvert
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,
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Jeff Calvert
4
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…
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Jeff Calvert
1
Change of Mission (Iraq, 2003)
Yesterday morning, we were going home
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Jeff Calvert
1
Thank you, Hardrock
Emerging from my post-Western slump
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Jeff Calvert
13
Night Running
9 reasons I love running after dark (moon shadows, all the best animals, magnification, the illusion of speed, more..)
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Jeff Calvert
3
Running Fixes Things
Not everything, but it's almost always better to keep moving forward (my recovery after running IMTUF, a 100-mile trail race in Idaho)
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Jeff Calvert
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