Guest Post by Lewis (lowercase) Taylor Hi. lc, here. I’ll be conducting the juices in Thornley’s absence for the next seven days. In case you haven’t heard, LB, Bili, TW, MB, GM, SLF, et. al., have headed off to the annual Michigan Bluff Training Camp. I’ve been to this camp before. It’s a blast. Basically, …
Guest Post by Greg (Cougarbait) Eyerly Problems are part of the plan. “If you plan to have problems, then when you have problems, problems are part of the plan. “ I said this quote last week. It had nothing to do with ultrarunning, rather I was explaining to the City Manager and Mayor of Cedar …
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Guest Post by Greg (Cougarbait) Eyerly Passing the final guy at the 1 mile to go sign on the road back to town from the trails, I was booking but I just couldn’t shake him – the him, the guy I just passed, I could hear his foot steps right behind me. Oh yes, while …
Guest Post by Tim Twietmeyer Hey folks, thanks for the insights on the course change question. The reason I ask is not some kind of indictment of Cool or Julie as that was a great event and we need more race directors like Julie willing to pour their heart and soul into race management (she’s …
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Guest Post by Tim Twietmeyer Hey, Craig says all the really smart ultrarunners read his blog (he needs something to bring up the average IQ of the site). So, I present the question to the brains of the sport – do runners really care if a 50k is exactly 31 miles? I ask as last weekend …