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...

Written for the Footzone Bend blog and reposted here.

This last weekend a horde of Central Oregonians traveled over the pass to the Rogue Valley to compete in the 35th running of the Pear Blossom 10 miler held annually in Medford.  For me, this...



This past week in Spain I was trying to conjure up a good reason that I wanted to be excited for this weekend’s XC meet. I don’t know if it was the cold the week before, the food poisoning, the familiarity of the week leading to...

World Cross is on Sunday of which I am feeling very ill prepared right now. Did my last workout today and did not feel like myself. I was supposed to do it yesterday but was laid up in my hotel room with something, food poisoning most likely. Luckily ...

On my way. To Spain. There are a lot of questions on this trip. Usually I’ve been training hard for six or seven weeks since USATF XC Nationals and I know roughly what kind of shape I’m in going into the World XC Championships. This year is...

My schedule of late has taken a dramatic turn, and for the better from my perspective. I’m taking on a new career path that will hopefully lead to something bigger in the long run. January 31st was my last official day at Bend Research where I...

Finally, success, ok granted things have typically been going pretty well but finally a successful marathon, also granted, only my second one but still I was starting to think I would be relegated to dying a horrible death every time I tried to run fas...