10 Things Craig Probably Didn’t Say in His Interview

Guest Post by White Trash (Alan Abbs) By now everyone knows that Craig is the RD in Waiting for Western States. Craig’s been so busy he didn’t even notice I slipped this in the blog queue only a few days after the announcement. Only the Board knows what was said in the interview, but here …

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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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Are You Part of The Ultrarunning Community?

I was asked in the comments of my last post what I thought was required to be considered part of the ultrarunning community, to be someone “inside the community.”  I know the commenters wanted me to say something like “you have to have run X distance in order to be admitted to the club.”  But …

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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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