Meaningful Contributions

The last few weeks have been some dark moments for the ultrarunning world and it’s left a bad taste in my mouth. Lots of armchair quarterbacking and just plain nasty disrespectful commentary, especially on the big blogs. I am all for people speaking up and sharing their opinion. In fact, I started this blog in …

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My Last Waldo

Brief report on the August 17 Waldo 100K. We had a 108 finishers at the 2013 Waldo 100K at Willamette Pass Ski Resort in Oregon this past weekend. This was one more than our previous high of 107 in 2010. With 137 starters, the finishing rate was 79% We saw a new men’s course record …

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A Nice Saturday Run in Tennessee

Guest Post by Alan Abbs, a.k.a. White Trash Midnight Saturday morning, and I was well on my way to Hohenwald- the signs even said so. We were over 40 hours into “The Last Annual Volunteer State Road Race”, a 500k race from the Northwest to the Southeast corners of Tennessee, and I was hoping to …

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Some Western States Numbers

Now that I have been on the job for four months, I thought it might be fun and informative to share a few numbers with you. These have been some challenging months for me as I try to wrap my head around all the details of the race. 3000 – the number of square feet in …

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BK’s Second Solo Grand Canyon Trip

My brother Chris (a.k.a. BK) is heading down the Grand Canyon on his second solo rafting trip starting Saturday Jan 12. If all goes according to plan he’ll finish the 297 miles on Feb 10 at South Cove. He is carrying a spot locating device which will update every 10 minutes while he is on …

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