Why Oregon?

AJW has a poll on his new Keep It Simple AJW blog: What state is America’s Ultrarunning capital? While there have only been 55 votes cast so far, probably because his huge fan base doesn’t know about his new blog yet, Oregon is leading with 42% followed by Colorado at 28%, California at 21%, and …

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End of AJW’s Blog and Our WS Obsession

With the announcement yesterday that AJW is putting his personal blog down in a few days I went over there and found the guest post I wrote on May 6, 2008 so that it wouldn’t disappear forever.  For context, this was written after a 10 day training camp in Michigan Bluff.  AJW had joined us …

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Year Three of Conducting The Juices

Instead of writing a review of my own running for 2011, I’m gonna do a review of the third year of Conducting The Juices.  Seems like I’ve been writing this blog for more than three years, but in fact, I started this blog in December 2008 so it has indeed only been three years. So …

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Top Ten 2012 AJW New Years Resolutions

I wrote these top ten 2012 AJW New Years Resolutions for a podcast interview AJW and I did together with ultrarunnerpodcast.com this week. Check out the podcast interview here. Oh, and if you couldn’t tell, the self-imposed moratorium on poking fun at AJW is over. I really appreciate that AJW The Taker crewed me at …

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Ham Radio at Ultras

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 …

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