Albania is a great place to hold a championships. It’s one of those countries that I’m not likely to travel to unless I have a good reason. The World Mountain Running Champs gave me a good reason. Most of you reading this are wondering, whe...

As an athlete you go through highs and lows as your body ebbs and flows with it’s  bio-rhythms. For endurance athletes this is even more evident as your performance depends almost entirely on what state your body is in.  I wish I could ...

Rough day at the office today.  It only took the first climb of the 19mi Sierre-Zinal race to figure out it wasn’t going to go the way I planned.  The first climb was the whole first half of the race but…

 
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Another long and awesome week of running in paradise (anywhere to run in the woods automatically becomes paradise by the way). Legs are tired, back is sore, eyelids are heavy. Sitting in SLC on my last leg of the journey home. Sorry, this is another lo...

It was tough but rewarding last two weekends of racing. Bear with me, this is going to be a long post. I wouldn’t normally recommend five races in such a short time span but it all came together sort of unexpectedly and there was no backing out. ...

Two very different races, two weeks apart, with two different perspectives. 

April 28th my wife and I traveled back to Syracuse, NY for the Mtn. Goat 10mile road race on May 1st. This is a race that my coach Jerry Smith puts a lot of pride in as...