Top Ten Mistakes You Aren’t Going To Make

Here are the top ten mistakes you are not going to make in the next 12 days. 10. Run yourself into the ground or to injury.  Yeah, tapering sucks, but the training you do in the next two weeks is more likely to leave you tired than to help you (with the exception of heat …

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Ten Best Compliments

Here are ten of the best “compliments” I’ve received. 10. You have the best blog in ultrarunning … because your posts are not about you. 9. You’re not old LB, you just act that way. 8. I’m glad you led for the first three miles … so I could practice my 72-hour pace. 7. Your …

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A Hypothetical Conversation

FastDude: I wasn’t selected in your lottery and I am calling to ask you to let me in your race. RD: Sorry, FastDude, but we only have a limited number of available spots as permitted by the land managers.  Many runners want those limited entry spots and we have determined the most fair way to …

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An Alternative UROY Ranking System

Wow, there sure has been a lot of “complaining” on various blogs since the 2010 UROY results came out earlier this week.  It’s interesting that people take this so seriously, including me.  Isn’t it the races that actually count, not some subjective ranking comparing Bay Area trail vs Ohio road, Colorado rocky mountains vs California …

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