A couple of months ago my wife and I were enjoying a nice meal outside on the deck of a beautiful home overlooking the McKenzie River. It was a business meeting of sorts, mostly with people who work with my wife in technology and education. The conversation, as is usually the case in these types …
Been having some interesting discussions with a group of race directors recently. One of the topics is if runners make decisions about what races to run by whether the race or RD pockets some of the proceeds. There are a range of business structures out there in the ultra world: from volunteer where all proceeds …
Before Waldo 100K this year I was approached by a professional photographer who was interested in taking photos at the race. This has happened about four times in the past ten years and once I describe how few people run the race and how difficult it is to get to the cool locations I either …
The 10th Waldo 100K is three days away. I had hoped to blog about life as a race director the last few weeks, but never found a time when my mind was not swimming with details and I wasn’t answering emails and phone calls. Throw in a three day ski patrol convention in Twin Falls, …
After ten years, we’ve finally decided to upgrade the Waldo 100k website. We were always proud of the content of the old site, but it definitely looked dated … nine years ago! I got to work with some awesome people on this project and Curt (my Co-RD), the race, and the runners are fortunate to …