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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…
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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,
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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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Change of Mission (Iraq, 2003)
Yesterday morning, we were going home
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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...
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Thank you, Hardrock
Emerging from my post-Western slump
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Tapering to Race Day (Western States part 4)
Nothing dumb, focus and prepare, make it epic, and some Simple Rules for ultras
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Train-up (Western States part 3)
This phase is all physiology, all about pushing hard to get strong. In short, it’s time to shut up and run.  But not without a plan…
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Fallowing (Western States part 2)
Ritual humility, pragmatic utility (7 weeks of restful regeneration in deference to the power of processes I don’t fully understand, but choose to trust…
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Jubilee! (Western States part 1)
In June I'll be running the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run (on the 25th anniversary of our 1st marathon). Here's how I'm preparing.
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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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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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