Category: running
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Pinhoti 100–The DNF that was an epiphany. We are measuring ourselves by the wrong metrics. This was my third and likely final time trying to get a Pinhoti buckle. I was convinced that this was the year it was going to happen. I was running with my best friend, my accountability partner, the person who…
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More on the race later. But for those interested, this is what I posted over several days on the Pinhoti 100 Facebook page about my race and DNF. I posted this in August in a search for a new and pacers: In early November on the Friday before the 2020 edition of Pinhoti 100, I…
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I’ve written about Ruffner Mountain before. You can read those pieces below. Here now are a few images form this year’s Crusher Ridge 42K at that beautiful mountain in Birmingham Ruffner Mountain Trail Running Festival Crusher Ridge 42K Race report
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I’ve always had an on-again-off-again relationship with Mizuno. I ran my first marathon in a pair of Renegade 4 (2009). Five years later I went Mizuno-crazy looking for a fresh running start after bilateral inguinal hernia repair. I fell in love with the Precision 13. They had a Robin’s egg blue and Canary color…
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It’s an endless pursuit for the runner. A search that never seems to end. Like the peak of an endless climb, the search for a rain shell that repeals the rain, weighs little, and doesn’t produce sauna conditions when worn seems endless. Oh, and doesn’t cost 200 dollars. Does such a jacket exist? Like the…
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Brooks has had a foot in the trail running scene for quite some time with its flagship trail shoe the Cascadia, now in its 11th iteration. Along with the Puregrit series, the Adrenaline ASR and the newer Mazama lightweight trail racing shoe, brooks is showing an increased devotion to the trail. Now they’re producing trail-specific…
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[See My view of the Launch 2 here] For a shoe that was on the cutting line a couple of years ago, the Brooks Launch has enjoyed quite a resurgence. The Launch 2 updated the shoe with the most recent Brooks shoe technology. The Launch 3 offers little revision from the second version of…
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I can’t remember when Brooks came out with an entirely new shoe model since before the Pure Project series. That’s the kind of cool thing about Brooks, they don’t go chasing the newest fad just because everyone else is doing it. Case in point: Brooks hasn’t yet joined the max cushion movement, especially in trail…
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“If something is easy how much reward is there?” –David Horton, Barkleys Finisher “You can’t really tell how much you can do until you try to do something that’s more.” –Lazarus Lake, Barkleys Founder “I will never ever do a 100 mile race. Nothing will change my mind.”– Gordon Harvey (July 2010) When I first…
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