tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38070273594185934562024-03-05T10:50:39.872-09:00Fumbling Towards EnduranceGeoff Roes' Ultrarunning WebsiteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger570125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-73018597460325014802017-10-08T14:56:00.005-08:002017-10-08T14:56:51.140-08:00Guest Runners For 2018 CampsWe are once again going to have guest runners at each session of Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp in 2018. Dakota Jones will be joining us for the June 10-16 session and Jenn Shelton will be coming back for another session July 19-25. They are both amazingly talented, knowledgeable, and fun people who am I really looking forward to spending a week with next summer. Spaces are still open for both sessions. <a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/">Click here to sign up. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-85767304992756129202017-09-22T09:37:00.001-08:002017-09-22T09:37:26.310-08:002018 Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning CampIt's official, we will once again be hosting two sessions of <a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/"><b>Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp</b></a> in 2018: June 10-16 and July 19-25.<br />
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This will be our 8th season of hosting these camps. We have now done more than 20 sessions of camp. Never thought we'd get this far when we started this experiment back in 2011, but I'm sure glad we have. These sessions of camp have all been a blast and I'm already looking forward to being back at it again next June. <b><a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/">Click here if you'd like to join us in 2018.</a></b><br />
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Here are several photos from the 2017 sessions:<br />
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I went on a pretty great fastpack trip a couple weeks ago and thought this would be a good place to dump some pictures from it. Explored further onto the Juneau Icefield than I ever have before and I'm hoping to do much more of this in the years to come.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-81295378351791645652014-10-13T12:54:00.002-08:002014-10-13T12:54:42.818-08:00AutumnWow, I forgot how much I miss Fall here in Alaska. It's windy, it's wet, it's getting darker by the day, and there are many reasons to feel like this is the worst time of year to be in Juneau, but for some reason it's also striking me as a really amazing time right now. I guess it's because I have been getting out in the mountains almost every chance I get. Winter is most certainly right around the corner, but right now I just keep noticing how precious each and every day of this autumn has been. This week it's supposed to be nice and sunny almost every day. I wish I had the endurance/energy to go out for long hours each day, but I still look very forward to juggling things around and finding the best times for my body and my daily routine to sustainably be able to spend several hours out and about.<br />
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Also, if you missed the news, I am doing a winter session of my running camps this coming February. Super stoked about this. It's going to be really fun. All the info is here: <a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/winter-session.html"> http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/winter-session.html</a><br />
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Another thing: here is a link to a lengthy interview I did a couple weeks ago which touches on my journey through illness for the past 26+ months: <a href="http://trailrunnernation.com/2014/10/geoff-roes-working-my-way-back/">http://trailrunnernation.com/2014/10/geoff-roes-working-my-way-back/</a><br />
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And lastly, here are my favorite photos from my last few weeks of playing in the mountains:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-6920641760292505962014-09-17T09:20:00.002-08:002014-09-17T10:22:29.636-08:00Catching UpWow, it's been 6 months since I last posted anything here. I suppose as I've been less and less into racing the past couple years I've become less and less into documenting my running in general. This isn't to say that I haven't been running. I had a very vibrant spring and summer of running. We did 3 more very successful sessions of Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp this summer, and I just returned from a 2 week trip in which I attended 3 races: Wasatch 100 (as a pacer); UROC 100k (as an aid station volunteer); and The Rut 50k (as an organizational volunteer). I was also able to squeeze in some long exploratory runs in the mountains here in Juneau this summer, although maybe not quite as many as I would have liked if it had been a better summer of weather and/or I was feeling healthier. My health has continued to improve ever so gradually over this time, but it is still most definitely a limiting factor in how often and for how long I can get out and push myself in the mountains.<br />
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I am also in the midst of settling back into living full time here in Alaska. With Corle finishing her studies in Colorado in May we are now back here in Juneau year round. As summer is quickly fading into autumn here it's been weird to experience this place at a time of year that I haven't in 5 years. Each day when I'm out and about I see, hear, or smell things which remind me of being here in autumn, and it's strange and fascinating to notice how long faded in my mind these memories seem to be. I'm excited to see what memories, and new experiences unfold with being back here full time over the next several months.<br />
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At any rate, this is also the time of year that we start making plans for the following season of running camp. We have just finalized the dates for 2015,<a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/"> and all the info for that can be found on the camp website. </a> We will be doing three sessions next summer: June 21-27; August 1-7; and August 10-16. If the early response is any indication I suspect we might fill up a bit quicker this year than the previous few years so be sure to jump on that as soon as possible if you are wanting to have choice of any session. I'm sure we will have space available in one or more sessions past the first of the year (as we typically do), but I wouldn't be surprised at all if the first session to fill does so before the end of the year.<br />
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I'll close with several pictures from my past 6 months of exploring the mountains and living life. More to follow soon:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-30281167327010221902014-03-12T12:50:00.000-08:002014-03-12T13:05:27.649-08:00March 12, 2014Last Thursday I sat down to write a letter to my friend, Glenn Frick. I knew this would be one of the most difficult letters I would ever write. Glenn was in a hospital in Seattle fighting lung cancer, and the doctors had recently declared that his condition was terminal, and all they could do was keep him as comfortable as possible in his remaining days. No matter how much I wanted to remain hopeful, I knew that the reality was that I was writing him to say goodbye. I've never been very comfortable with goodbyes, so this ultimate goodbye was certain to be anything but easy to write.<br />
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I have written about Glenn, and the impact that Glenn has had on me, at least a couple times in the past: <a href="http://akrunning.blogspot.com/2008/10/glenn-frick.html">Here</a> and<a href="http://www.irunfar.com/2013/08/drawing-from-others.html"> Here</a>. Glenn is without question one of the kindest, wisest, strongest, happiest, most generous, and most inspirational people I have ever known. If I've ever had a hero in running, or in life in general it has been Glenn. Certainly Glenn is the closest thing I have ever had to a running mentor. I have learned more about the complex and yet so simple activity that is running from Glenn than from everyone else combined.<br />
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As I finished the letter and walked it to the mailbox I had a very ominous feeling that Glenn would never read it. I last talked to Glenn less than two weeks prior, and although he didn't have any definite diagnosis at that time, he sounded vulnerable, weak, and scared. This was a side of Glenn that I had never seen. Glenn has more intuition about his body than anyone I know. I couldn't stop thinking about how serious this must be if Glenn was feeling that it was serious. I've learned to always trust Glenn's intuition, and now I was wanting so badly for him to be wrong.<br />
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As usual, Glenn's intuition was correct. He passed away Friday morning after 5 days in the hospital.<br />
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Later that morning I walked down to the mailbox to retrieve the goodbye letter that Glenn will never read. The letter had turned out to be surprisingly easy to write. It seemed strangely simple to say goodbye to him, and I didn't feel much of a sense of regret that I wasn't able to communicate these words to him before he moved on. I wondered if I was just so sad and shocked by all of this that I was in denial, and was closing off my emotions as a defense mechanism? I'm sure this was the case to some degree, but I also could tell that there was something else going on.<br />
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As I walked back from the mailbox with the letter in hand, tears running down my face, and the sun warming my bare neck and arms, I realized then the other reason why the letter had been easier to write that I would have expected, and why I didn't feel a strong sense of regret at not getting the letter to Glenn before he died. The reason was that with Glenn I had already told him everything. Glenn was one of those people that you couldn't help but admire. To know him is to be inspired by him. There was never anything subtle about Glenn's admirable qualities. So much so that I had, on numerous occasions, expressed my admiration, respect, appreciation, and love for him. The letter was just a reiteration of all of that. It would have been nice to say it all to him one last time, but in the end it didn't really matter. Glenn was such a one in a million person that I had already expressed some form of everything in the letter, not because he was sick and dying, but because with Glenn I couldn't help but express how great I thought he was long before he was sick. I later found out that he had even made the joke that my article from this past fall (that I linked above) sounded like an obituary. Glenn always had a great sense of humor, and as I already touched on, an other worldly sense of intuition - even when making sarcastic jokes.<br />
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Here is what the letter I wrote last week said. Outside of a few specifics, not really anything I hadn't already expressed to Glenn in the past:<br />
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<i>Glenn, I've been thinking about you a lot these last couple weeks. I'm sorry for the pain and discomfort you are feeling. I just wanted to say thank you, though. Thank you for all your kindness, joy, and wisdom. I have learned more about how to live a happy, healthy, and satisfying life from you than you'll ever know. Juneau has become a very special place for me, and a large part of this has to do with you. You have taught me to appreciate and fully understand the things that are positive in that place. I keep thinking about how much I wish I could still go into those mountains with you, but then I get so much joy in remembering everything we have shared on those mountain ridges. Taku back to town was the last run we did together, and was one of the best days of running ever for me (even if I had a hard time keeping up with you). I've heard you often say that you have no regrets. I certainly have no regrets about all the amazing times we have shared in those mountains. I plan to take you with me in my heart and my mind every time I venture out there. I love you friend. </i></div>
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Of course the fact that I told Glenn exactly how I felt about him while he was alive, and before he was sick, doesn't make his death any easier to come to terms with, only a little easier to not feel regret at not being able to say goodbye to him. I can't stop thinking about how vital, healthy, and strong he was just a few months ago. The last run I did with Glenn was this past August. We rode 3 hours in a boat, got dropped off several miles up Taku Inlet, and ran a series of mountain peaks all the way back to town. In all it was a 12 hour 'run' with about 10,000-12,000 feet of vertical gain in 20-25 miles. I was lucky enough to do dozens (or hundreds) of these types of runs with Glenn in the past 6 years. I could write pages and pages of stories about the amazing runs we've done together, and the amazing things he's done on each and every one.<br />
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One thing I do find myself taking comfort in is knowing how full of a 75 years this man lived. He seemingly only ever knew a month or two of physical weakness in his entire life. A few weeks ago he took what I'm pretty sure was his first pain medication of his life. I don't think he had ever even taken an aspirin or ibuprofen until last month! I honestly thought Glenn might out live me even though he was born nearly 40 years before me. I believed we would be running mountain ridges together when he was 85 or 90 years old. It feels horrible right now to know that I'm never going to get to do any of this with Glenn, but I do find great comfort in the knowledge that he lived well over 100 years worth of life in his 75 years, and that we spent several hundred hours together running mountain ridges in the 6 or so years that we knew each other.<br />
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Glenn's influence and impact on the Juneau community, and especially the running community is beyond measure. He inspired, encouraged, and taught so many people to be better runners and better people. Even though he is gone there remains a community of hundreds of people who are each several times better people and better runners for having shared time with Glenn. As a collective group we are a hundred times stronger, closer, and better off because of Glenn's influence. Glenn was the heart and soul of the Juneau running community for the past 50 years, and he helped make this community so vibrant and strong that even in his absence we remain immeasurably better off than we ever could have been without him. Steve Davis, a longtime member of this amazing running community summed it up perfectly last Friday upon hearing of Glenn's passing: <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Our old friend and running buddy, Glenn Frick, has once more gone ahead of us to check out the trail that lies before us all. But do not worry, as always he'll wait for us, we'll round that bend and there he'll be, baggy running shorts, torn and tattered tyvek jacket, well worn running shoes. We'll see his lithe and sturdy frame, peer into his pale blue eyes, he'll begin to tell us a story that is more like a riddle. As we follow him we'll once more marvel at his sure and agile stride as he leads us home".</span><br />
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My memories of Glenn would be incomplete without mention of how much he did the past few years to help turn my running camp into what it has become. It turns out that Glenn had a plan to start a very similar camp in Juneau many years ago. I'm very proud of what my camps have become, but I'm very aware that the time, energy, and effort that Glenn has volunteered has been a huge reason for the success of these camps. The simple joy, humor, knowledge, and grace which he shared with every participant he interacted with was without question one of the most valuable aspects of attending camp. I'm going to try my best (with the help of so many other great Juneau runners) to use what I learned from Glenn to offer as close as possible to the same great experience to future campers, but anyone who has attended camp in the past knows that the experience for future campers just won't be quite as rich and valuable without Glenn there to lead us up into the mountains.<br />
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Perhaps the thing that I will miss the most is the way Glenn brought people together, made people feel good about themselves, and made people appreciate everyone and everything around them. He knew when to treat people with tenderness and when to treat them with firmness. It seemed like no matter the situation, Glenn had a way of making everyone around him enjoy that moment in their life more than they otherwise would have. That is such a special gift. A talent that Glenn possessed more than anyone I have ever known.<br />
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Thanks for everything Glenn. I will never run into the mountains without thinking of you.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-48419422556647525462014-02-21T09:11:00.002-09:002014-02-21T09:11:58.240-09:00Special GuestI've already posted this on Facebook and on our running camp website, but I wanted to throw a quick post up here announcing that Krissy Moehl will be joining the June session of Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp this summer. She will be joining as a 'guest runner', which will mean that she will be attending this session as another highly experienced and qualified resource that anyone participating in this session will be certain to benefit from. Krissy has vast experience as a racer, coach, and adventurer that will be a huge asset at this session. I'm looking forward to learning from her myself as a result of spending an entire week hanging out with her and running long runs each day with her. <a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/">Not many spaces left in this June session though, so if you want to be a part of the "Krissy session" be sure to sign up as soon as possible.</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-37734527564422947112014-02-17T12:58:00.002-09:002014-02-17T12:58:49.395-09:00Another Big Step ForwardI Headed out to Moab this past weekend and finished my first trail race (excluding races on snow) in about 27 months! If you haven't run the<a href="http://www.grassrootsevents.net/#!red-hot/cjg9"> Moab Red Hot</a> before I highly recommend checking it out next year. One of the best events I've ever been a part of for sure. If you don't want to wait until next year to run a great trail race in Moab be sure to check out the other upcoming races from the folks who put on this race: <a href="http://www.grassrootsevents.net/">GrassRoots Events </a>. I've explored the trails around Moab quite a bit over the years, and I can only imagine that their other races are also top notch in terms of organization, scenery, and overall experience.<br />
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Anyway, the race went more or less as planned for me. I had no intention of going there and trying to push myself at too high of a level. I'm still a long ways from feeling fully recovered from whatever has been ailing me for these last 18 months, and the last thing I wanted to do was to suffer any significant set backs from pushing myself too hard.<br />
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I started out really mellow and was planning to run the first 10 miles really mellow and then maybe push myself a bit if I was feeling well. A few miles in though, I realized that there was pretty much no way I was going to feel that great after 10 miles. After 4 miles I was already feeling like I had run quite a long way, and I realized that there was just no way that I was going to feel good in the second half of a 20 mile race (no matter how slow I ran) when my average week of running for the last several months has been less than 20 miles. At this point I decided that I would push myself hard for several miles in the middle part of the race and then just find a way to get myself to the finish. At least this way I would have the satisfaction of pushing a decent bit for part of the race, because it was very obvious that no matter how slow I ran early on I wasn't going to have much left in the tank to push hard late in the race.<br />
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Just after the first aid station the 'short course' (I was running the 33k, not the 55k) begins what is by far the most enjoyable and challenging part of the course. This was the perfect time to push a little harder for awhile. I wasn't at all focused on the competition, but I do know that I began passing a lot of people in this stretch.<br />
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Eventually I found my way to a group of folks that I didn't really pull away from as I passed them and ended up running the rest of the race at a more mellow effort, staying more or less in that same position. By the time I got to the last few miles I was moving pretty slow, but was still feeling pretty decent. I just didn't really have it in my legs to go any faster, but I was pretty happy with the pace I was moving. In the end I finished at least 15 minutes faster than I would have expected for the effort I put in. This combined with feeling pretty good after the race definitely has me even more excited about my potential return to 'normal' health than I have been at any point in a long time.<br />
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It felt really nice to get out on the trails in this capacity again, but one of my takeaways from this race is that I'm not going to continue to run races to get back in shape. I do want to race again. I might even race again by this coming summer, but racing when I'm as out of shape as I am right now is just kind of silly (especially considering that racing too much is likely what got me into this health mess in the first place). If my health continues to improve I want to spend the next several months trying to get myself back into legitimate shape such that the next time I line up for a race I have the possibility of pushing myself hard for the entire distance. It's hard to say when this will be, but certainly I do have an event or two in mind later in the year that I would like to take a stab at if my body cooperates. Time will tell.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-11909717355888366092014-01-26T16:18:00.004-09:002014-01-26T16:18:56.225-09:00Time Flies...... When you're busy and having fun.<br />
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This last couple weeks has been a full on whirlwind for me. Sometimes this can be exhausting, but in this case it's been really energizing and uplifting.<br />
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Since I last posted here I have launched a small business, begun running most everyday again, gone on a wonderful little 3 day camping trip with my family, and run my first legitimate race in nearly two years!<br />
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If you missed it on my Facebook, I have started a very small scale coffee roasting business out of my garage. I have been roasting my own coffee for about 4 years and decided to turn it in to a little side business.<br />
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The story of how this came to be is actually quite funny: We are moving back to Juneau to live year round this coming June. For several months now I thought that I might like to start a small coffee roasting business once we are living there again. I would get people to subscribe to a certain amount of beans per week, roast it up fresh, and deliver it to them by bicycle. Juneau seemed like the perfect place to do this. I know hundreds of people in town who would help with word of mouth advertising, and the type of community there is in Juneau is without question the type that would make a point to support something like this. The city is also so crammed into a small space that you could deliver just as quickly and efficiently on bike as you could in a car. Perfect idea. Except for the reality that another guy I know in town recently bought a small roasting company (who was already doing a fairly similar thing), and has plans to do exactly the same thing, even down to the bike delivery. He knows most of the same people in town, and has plans to roast and distribute beans to as many Juneauites as he can. I'm stoked for him. He's an awesome guy, and I'm quite certain his business will succeed. I tried a bit of his first batch of coffee last month, and it was tasty for sure. And that was pretty much the end of my business. <br />
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I got thinking though, why not do the same type of thing here in Boulder. Obviously the market is a lot more flooded with dozens (if not hundreds) of other local roasters, but there is also a much larger population here. And thus I decided to just go for it and launched <a href="http://www.sugarloafcoffee.blogspot.com/">Sugarloaf Coffee</a> less than two weeks ago now. Business has been decent so far. I've sold about 25 pounds of coffee already, which is about as much as I would ever want to sell per two weeks. This said, it would be great to pick up some more local consistent customers (as many of my customers so far have been one time customers not from this area), so if you are in the Boulder area and are interested in this kind of thing be sure to check it out. I've had nothing but positive reviews so far.<br />
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Due to the the interest in my coffee from people outside of the Boulder area I also started selling my beans through the mail. Corle and I have talked for a couple years now about starting a "camp store" as part of our <a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/">Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp.</a> Last week I decided to combine the two. I decided to offer mail order coffee as the flagship product to <a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/camp-store.html">the new camp store</a>, under the label: Juneau Mountain Coffee. The coolest thing about it (besides really good, really fresh coffee), is that we have decided that we are going to use a large portion of the proceeds from all camp store items to help fund <a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/scholarships.html">the camp scholarship fund </a>for upcoming years. $4 from each pound of coffee sold will go towards the scholarship fund.<br />
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Speaking of running camp, we also awarded the scholarships for this coming season a couple weeks ago. We are super excited about the applicants we had, and wish we could have given all of them a scholarship. If you are interested in attending camp this summer there are still spaces remaining for all 3 sessions. If you are interested in attending on a need based scholarship you would need to apply at the end of this year for 2015, as the scholarship period is over for this year. The scholarship program has been a huge success though, and we intend to do it as long as we continue to do the camps (which we also intend to do for at least a few more years). <br />
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One more quick camp related bit: JB and Jen Benna of JourneyFilm (makers of "Unbreakable", among other films) have generously offered to donate 50% of all proceeds on the JourneyFilm Store to my camp scholarship fund for one month (January 15 - February 15th)! <a href="http://www.journeyfilm.com/servlet/StoreFront">Click here to check that out.</a> They've got a lot of great stuff. I know you've all always wanted a shirt with me on it.<br />
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Oh, and now a bit about my running. I've been running more consistently the past couple weeks than I have in a long time. I've been feeling pretty good, and I find myself wanting to get out most everyday for the first time in a very long time. I'm being careful to not jump back in to it way too soon, but I did just run a 30k snowshoe race yesterday! OK, so maybe I'm not doing a very good job of not jumping in to soon. Be sure to check out my<a href="http://www.irunfar.com/"> iRunFar</a> column this coming Wednesday which will have a lot more details about how that race went for me.<br />
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And lastly, Corle, Elle, and I went on a lovely little camping trip last weekend. It was so nice to spend 3 straight days outside with the two of them. It was a really nice weekend, but was getting down below 20 degrees each night. Elle is so amazing now at dealing with such cold weather. She didn't complain about the cold once. I feel so lucky to have a 7 year old who will go camping in conditions that most adults would consider too cold. Hoping to go again this coming weekend. Maybe Utah. Here are a few photos from that trip to end with:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-38765216127896870012014-01-10T13:09:00.000-09:002014-01-10T13:09:11.455-09:00Happy New YearGosh, it's been a month again now since I last posted. Not sure how I used to post here a dozen or more times a month. I guess when I was running every day; a hundred or more miles a week; 4,000 or so a year, running related blogging was a little more relevant and appealing to me.<br />
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At any rate, my New Year,s resolution is to write on my blog more. Actually, I just made that up, and if I did believe in making New Year's resolutions that would probably not be it. I do want to try to keep this website updated a bit more regularly though. Although I've been running a lot less in the past year than any other year in quite some time, I do still enjoy being involved in the running community, and am still living (at least partially) a running related lifestyle. If you didn't see it yet you might want to check out<a href="http://www.irunfar.com/2014/01/gratitude.html"> my recent article on IrunFar</a> that talks more about all of this.<br />
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The reality is though, that running is not nearly as much a part of my day to day life as it was a few years ago. For a lot of the past 18 months I have had a hard time accepting and adapting to this reality, but just now, over the past few months, I've started to notice a more distinct shift in which I've begun to see these changes as an opportunity to have a little more balance in my life that running as much as I did (as well as thinking about running and writing about running as much as I did) from 2007-2012 didn't really allow for. I don't at all regret how much running consumed my life in those years, and I very consciously choose for it to be that way at the time. Now though, I've come to a point of really appreciating a little break from having nearly everything all the time be about running. Sure, I miss it all sometimes, but not as much as I thought I did a year ago at this time. It's been really nice to start to move forward with a life and a lifestyle that doesn't revolve so much around running. I still go out for runs when I feel like it, and as my health continues to improve I will continue to do so even more regularly. Maybe I'll even start to run everyday again at some point, and try to get myself into shape to race at some point, but I've certainly given up on feeling like this is something that I'm losing out on if it doesn't happen. If it happens it will be because I choose to make it happen, and if it doesn't happen it will be because I choose something else. In this sense I feel like I have more flexibility with my running and my relationship with running than I have had in nearly a decade, and that feels good.<br />
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The only things I really know for sure are that I want to continue getting out in the mountains on foot on a fairly regular basis and that I want to continue to host<a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/"> my running camps</a> for the foreseeable future. Beyond this I know that I don't need anything more from running right now. This said, I do plan to, and am excited about keeping my life loosely tied to this sport and this community. I love writing about running, and plan to continue to do so both here and on IrunFar. I really enjoy being around races, even if I'm not running. Regardless of where my health takes me, and whether I'm racing myself anytime soon, I intend to check out races every now and then. I'm really hoping to make it to Hardrock this year, and am planning to be at UROC again for sure. Hell, I'm even registered to run a 30k snowshoe race in a few weeks. Not sure yet if I'll actually do it, but the good thing about where I'm at right now is that it doesn't really matter. My day to day contentedness simply doesn't have as much to do with running as it once did. It's taken me the better part of a year to see that this isn't automatically a bad thing, but now that I see this, it feels really good to notice all the other things in my present life and in my future that do bring me contentedness. For the first time in several years I don't really know what my day to day life will look like a year from now, and for this I am really excited. I have some ideas of things that I want to do in the next few years, but this is made up of so many seemingly unrelated random things that I won't even attempt to guess right now which ones will take hold and which ones won't. Time will tell.<br />
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So yes, this will remaining primarily a running related blog, but if I actually do manage to post here more regularly don't be surprised if you find me writing as much about other random topics/activities as I do about running.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-60239023064923201952013-12-10T10:40:00.002-09:002013-12-10T10:40:13.232-09:00Never a Dull Moment in San FranciscoJust returned from a great trip out to San Francisco this past weekend to check out the always exciting North Face Endurance Challenge. This year's race might have been as exciting as ever, and every time I go to San Francisco I come away with the feeling that even though I'm not a city person (by any stretch of the imagination), I really like that city. It seems to have a flow and an energy that just really works well for me. I doubt I'll ever in my life live in a large city, but if I do I kind of hope that it's San Francisco.<br />
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If you missed the link on my social media pages here's a short but sweet little video of Mike Wolfe, Chris Vargo, and Rob Krar running the singletrack into Muir Beach at about mile 38 of the race on Saturday:<br />
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I jumped in at that point and ran about a mile with them. It seemed like they were running pretty relaxed at the time (as they must have been for me to stay with them for a mile), but you could just sense that they were entirely dialed in and getting ready for the battle ahead. No one spoke a word, but I could just tell that the silence was a result of being both relaxed and very focused. Year in and year out this race is decided on the climb out of Muir Beach at about mile 40. I think this is the 8th running of this race and at least 5 times that climb has decided the race. This year was certainly no exception. Rob made a move on that climb and by the time they arrived in Tennessee Valley (4 miles later) he had an 8 minute lead! He ran through the Tennessee Valley aid station faster and more determined than anyone I had ever seen in a 50 mile race. Folks who were there this past weekend who had also seen Miquel Heras come through there chasing me on his eventually victory in 2010 said that Rob was running significantly faster and more focused than Miquel had been that day, even though I heard about 30 people after that race talk about how Miquel came blowing through faster and more focused than anything they had ever seen.<br />
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To me this kind of race and this kind of focus is one of the most impressive and inspiring things to watch in the sport of ultrarunning. In most cases ultrarunning isn't really about who can run the fastest, but instead who can avoid running the slowest. Sometimes though you get these amazing performances where someone just gets completely dialed in late in a race, makes an aggressive move, and they don't just win by being the one to hold on the longest, they win by completely blowing the competition out of the water with nearly unfathomable strength and speed. I've done this myself a couple times, I've had it happen to me a time or two, and I've now seen it a couple times as a spectator. It never gets old. Thanks for the show, Rob. Super impressive. A year ago almost no one in the sport knew who Rob Krar was, and now he's likely (in my mind) to walk away with UROY in a landslide. Impressive stuff from a super cool guy.<br />
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For my own part, I was able to get out on the course a lot on Saturday. I ran about 6 or 7 miles out to some of the more remote parts of the course to check out the action, and then I ran in the last 6 miles with Anna Frost as her pacer. Was super stoked for her to be back out in the action of such a high competition race. She has a ways to go to be back to racing at the level she was a couple years ago, but this weekend made it clear to me that she is well on her way to being able to do so, if that's the route she chooses to take. It was great to share a bit of this journey with her, as she has been one of my favorite people in the sport since I first met her a few years back.<br />
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I myself also have a long way to go to be back to where I was a few years ago, but it feels nice to have come back to the point I am at. I have no idea what direction my continued improved health will take me in terms of running and racing, but for the first time in over a 15 months I really feel like my body is definitively bouncing back. I'm far from feeling strong or what I would have previously thought of as normal, but more and more with the passing weeks I feel confident that I will get there over time. Not sure where everything else in my life will fit in, and exactly how running will play into all of this, but I feel like I am slowly getting back a life of health and prosperity that I wasn't sure I would ever have again. It's really a pretty exciting place to be after so much time of fear and doubt.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-86158715278104883412013-11-09T10:19:00.003-09:002013-11-09T10:26:59.805-09:00BikepackingMany readers of this blog (if I still have readers with how little I post lately) probably "know" me exclusively because of my running. The reality is though, that as I came to endurance athletics I was at times as much or more of an endurance mountain biker as I was runner. In 2007 and 2008 I almost certainly spent more time on my bikes than I did running. My main focus as an endurance cyclists culminated in my attempt at the Great Divide Race in 2008. When that event was over for me I packed up my bike, shipped it back to Alaska, and have hardly ridden since. I would be surprised if I have ridden a total of 500 miles in the more than 5 years since that ride. Slowly these past couple months this has begun to change though.<br />
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I've actually started to go out and do some rides for the sake of going out for a ride (not just as a means to get around town). I've begun to walk into the garage once again and see my bike as something that can take me on so many great adventures (as opposed to something that I should probably just sell because I don't use it enough). This past weekend I even loaded up my bike and headed West, to Utah, for the specific purpose of travelling around in the desert on my bike for a few days. I wasn't sure what my health would allow, but surprisingly I felt really good and was able to do a 140 mile loop over the course of 3 days. In doing so, I was blown away myself to see how much I missed doing long self-supported rides.<br />
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Bikepacking is an unknown thing to a lot of people. It's essentially bike touring, but with much less stuff and through much more rugged terrain. Backpacking with a bike, but essentially more like fastpacking with a bike. To be able to ride on trails and rugged jeep roads on a bike you can't be carrying much gear and you need to be strategic about how you carry it. Racks and panniers are almost certainly not the best options and you really just don't want to carry much more than 10 or 15 pounds of gear or your riding ability is greatly diminished. The cool thing is that if you keep your weight low enough, and you have it positioned properly on the bike, you can pretty much go anywhere you would ever ride on a mountain bike and you have everything with you to stay out for as long as you desire. In a place like Utah this can get you to some pretty incredible places that even with a Jeep would take more effort to get to than almost anyone is willing to put in. In the 140 miles that I rode this past week I saw one other person and accessed some areas of the desert that probably see fewer than a handful of people a year.<br />
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I have no idea if this renewed interest is something that will continue to grow in me, but this whole week I've been almost constantly dreaming about bikepacking trips I want to do in the near future. At the very least I'm going to find a time in the spring to do this 500+ mile loop in Southern Utah that I've had in my mind for nearly 7 years now. This would include all three districts of Canyonlands N.P., The Henry Mountains, Glen Canyon N.R.A., The San Rafael Swell, Capitol Reef N.P., A large portion of The Kokopelli Trail, Canyon Rims R.A., as well as countless other miles of BLM and National Forest land. The route would be 99% on dirt and take me through some of the most remote, scenic, and inspiring land anywhere in the world. By packing light I'd be able to move quickly on my bike and could ride the whole route in 7-10 days fairly comfortably. With the exception of a motor bike there just isn't any other mode of travel that would be as efficient and as ideal as doing this on a properly equipped bicycle. I like that aspect of the whole thing. I really like to travel through places where my mode of travel is the most efficient and most logical, otherwise it just feels somewhat contrived. I thought a lot about this on my ride this past week. I was consistently aware that most of the places I was riding there was no other way to travel that would be as efficient and logical as the bike I was riding. Here are some photos from my recent journey:<br />
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Simple little campsite the first night<br />
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The sun going down at the end of an incredible few daysUnknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-66514760674064144212013-10-22T20:09:00.001-08:002013-10-22T20:09:53.209-08:00Days Getting ShorterWow, it's been nearly two months since I posted anything here. Not sure where the time went. I guess I've had a fair amount of adventures to keep me busy in this time. Went out to Pine to Palm 100 to pace a friend for 30+ miles, Volunteered as an aid station captain at the very exciting and very entertaining UROC 100k, took a great 4 day weekend camping trip to Utah with the little one, and then just some nice time settling into a routine here in Colorado for what will quite likely be my last year ever living in this area. I haven't been running a whole lot. In fact, not at all in the past few weeks. Just taking things really easy and getting outside in other ways: walking, biking, fishing, backpacking, gathering firewood for the winter.<br />
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My body still feels "off", but my mind has felt better the past couple weeks than it has in a long time. It's actually been really nice not to run at all recently because my body is still telling me to take it easy, and it helps my mood a lot when I just listen and do what my body is saying. I do hope to be able to be fairly active this winter, as winter is easily my favorite time to do things outside in Colorado. Hoping to dust off the snowshoes and the nordic skis and get some good time in on both this winter. Hopefully I can use that as a good springboard to go into spring and summer back in Alaska.<br />
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I'm getting really excited for another season of running camps up there, as well as some other projects I have in mind once I'm back in Alaska. For those of you interested in the 2014 edition of <a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/">Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp</a> there are spaces still open in all 3 sessions, but there is a really great sale on flights to Juneau right now, with tickets from most destinations in the lower 48 lower than I have ever seen them! Unfortunately this sale ends on October 29th, and this is a long way out to plan a trip for next summer, but I thought I would mention this in case anyone is planning to come to camp, but just hasn't made the commitment yet. If you book your flights in this next week you are likely to save $400+ on airfare!<br />
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The other thing about camp that I want to mention again is that we are still looking for contributions for the scholarship program. We had amazing support for this program last year, and are excited to continue this program in 2014, but we still need a lot of funding to reach our goal of providing 3 full scholarships. You can get all the information on the program and instructions on how to contribute<a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/scholarships.html"> here.</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-27923316642775831772013-08-27T10:58:00.001-08:002013-08-27T10:58:19.240-08:00Patience Makes PerfectAnother summer in Alaska has come to an end and we are now back in Colorado for Corle's last year of school here. After this year we will be back in Juneau to live year round. Our time here in Colorado has been great, but I am definitely looking forward to getting back to living in one place year round, having all of our stuff in one place (as opposed to storage units and various houses/apts). We have lived in 7 different places in the last 4 years, but once we move at the beginning of next summer we might be staying in the same place for several years. The thought of that sounds really nice after all this moving around.<div>
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My health has continued to generally improve with time. I had a great summer in Alaska in which my improved health allowed me to get out on some great adventures in the mountains. I didn't at all try to run with any kind of everyday consistency, but on two different occasions (once in June and again in late July/early August) I was able to put in some pretty decent time out in the mountains for 2 or 3 week stretches. It would be a stretch to say I was feeling great on any of these outings, but compared to how horrible I felt for most of the past year it's hard to complain. If my health improves as much in the next year as it has in the past year then I will feel 100% sometime in the not so distant future.</div>
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This said, back in Colorado now I can certainly feel that it is taking some time to feel strong and energetic. It may be that I'm just recovering from a few very strenuous weeks my last few weeks in Alaska, or maybe my body is responding to the 7,500 ft. altitude that I'm living at here, or maybe just a natural regression in my health/energy, as I have had dozens of phases throughout this whole ordeal in which I inexplicably feel much worse than the previous several days or weeks. At any rate, I'm planning to take it really easy until my body feels better and then hopefully I can get out on some good autumn outings here in Colorado before resting up and moving into a 2014 in which I can hopefully return to stretches of everyday running and see where that takes me. I miss running everyday, and being in shape to be able to race anytime I want, but more than anything I just like to be able to get outside and explore my surroundings on a regular basis. I feel so fortunate that I was able to do this as often as I was this summer, and I look forward to moving gradually back into a place in which I can pretty much do this whenever I want to. </div>
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Despite my still compromised health I was able to put on two amazing sessions of camp this past summer. We had our best summer yet, and are super excited to be planning on three more sessions for next summer. <a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/">Check out the website if you are interested in that.</a> Entry is now open!</div>
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In the meantime, I'm enjoying being a family man. Marrying Corle this past summer was probably the smartest thing I've ever done, and the fact that she comes with such a rad kid makes the deal even that much sweeter. Our days back in Colorado have been filled with making our new house here into a home for the three of us and this has been incredibly enjoyable. Beyond this I've been slowly taking on a few new hobbies to fill some of the void of not running so much and certainly I have a few projects in mind that I hope to put some more energy into in the coming months. </div>
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In short, life is good, although I do still have a ways to go to feel like my old self physically. In the meantime it's been fun (and challenging) to figure out how to navigate through my life without the physical health that I had grown so used to. I'd be lying if I said it's been easy, but if my experience of this past year has taught me anything it's that sometimes we just need to keep faith, and practice patience, and keep moving forward. Our minds and our bodies have an amazing ability to heal and recover, but we need to be willing to give them the space to do so. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-47076581990998477232013-08-09T11:59:00.000-08:002013-08-09T12:25:12.208-08:00Season Three In The BooksLast week we completed the final session of Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp for 2013. Somehow these camps just keep getting more satisfying and more fun to be a part of. We had the best week of weather we've ever had for a camp and ended up getting out on huge mountain runs all week. In 5 days we were out for nearly 30 hours, about 25,000 ft. of vertical gain, and about 70 miles! Amazingly it was sunny and warm for every minute of this time!<br />
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We are currently in the process of finalizing dates for the 2014 camps. There will likely be three sessions, but keep an eye on this website or over on <a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/">the camp website</a> for the official announcement sometime in the next month or so. We will also be continuing our very popular and very effective scholarship program for 2014. I will be updating the scholarship information on the camp website for 2014 sometime in the next few weeks, but we are always taking contributions to help fund the program. Check out the <a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/scholarships.html">"scholarship page"</a> on the camp website for info. on how to contribute.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-22094697664791044812013-07-24T17:51:00.000-08:002013-07-24T17:51:23.260-08:00The Good LifeWow, I guess time flies when you're having fun. This is certainly the longest I have ever gone without a post on this blog. Certainly not because I haven't had anything to write about, but because my mind has been in other places away from writing.<br />
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I've been up in Alaska since the middle of May and it's been a nearly perfect summer up here. After a non-existent summer last year, we have had one of the nicest summer's I've seen here. It's been a little cooler and wetter in July, but in the month of June it pretty much didn't rain here at all.<br />
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The nice weather and my improved health has allowed me to get out on some great mountain outings this summer. I still haven't tried to get back to running everyday, but generally I have been able to get out on a couple long mountain outings each week with a shorter run or two mixed in each week. Aside from this I have had two short stretches with a heavy load on my body and it has seemed to respond okay to the increased physical stress. I still feel a long way from what I would call "normal", but I do feel so much better than I have in about a year.<br />
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The first short stretch of fairly regular running was back in mid June for the first session of Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp. We had a perfect week of weather that week, a great group of participants, and my body allowed me to take part in about 20 hours of running in 5 days! Not something that I thought would be a possibility a few months ago.<br />
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A couple weeks after this Corle and I got married, and during that time I was able to get in some great long runs with many of my best friends in the world who were here for the wedding. The day before the wedding I went out with about 15 or 20 friends and did one of the most satisfying runs I have ever done in my life. It was one of those days when I felt so lucky to have so many great friends and to have the health to be able to get out in the mountains and enjoy such beauty with so many wonderful people. <br />
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For a "honeymoon" we took a trip over to Sitka and spent a week living outside. Some car camping, some backpacking, and some sea kayaking. The backpacking trip was a hike across Baranof Island from Sitka to Baranof Warm Springs. I had heard of a few people doing this hike, but went into it with little to no sense of exactly what we were getting into. It turned out to be a fairly epic route that was much more challenging than I expected. It felt more like a light mountaineering trip than a traditional backpacking trip. I was certainly not disappointed by this surprise. This trip was one of many things I have done this summer that remind me of just how much I feel drawn to the land here in Southeast Alaska. It has become, without question, the most appealing landscape in the world to me.<br />
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Coming up this week we have another session of Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp, and then a couple more weeks in AK before heading back to Colorado for our last stint in Boulder. When Corle graduates next May we will be returning to Juneau to once again live here year round. The time in Boulder has been great, and I'm looking forward to one more season there, but I feel so lucky to be returning to Alaska to live full time again. It is the place in the world where I feel most at ease and most comfortable with my surroundings. I feel more connected to the land when I am here than I do anywhere else, and I feel like my lifestyle here supports my recovery from whatever it is I'm recovering from better than anywhere else.<br />
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Not sure what my next several weeks/months will bring in terms of running. I think I'm still a long ways away from feeling like I want to try to run everyday, and potentially get into shape to try to push my body in any serious way, but I do notice myself starting to feel hints of a desire to do that at some point in the perhaps not so distant future. I guess time will tell.<br />
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Here are a few of my favorite photos from my adventures this summer:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-36354649387790230032013-04-17T12:17:00.002-08:002013-04-17T12:17:26.248-08:00Getting OldI turned 37 this past weekend, but other than that things are about the same with me. Some decent days with my health, and some not so decent days. Slowly I think I'm coming to a much better emotional place with all of this. I obviously would still love to feel 100% healthy and strong, and ideally I would love to feel this sooner rather than later, but I have also come to a place of better acceptance about the whole thing. I may never again in my life feel as healthy and strong as I did 2 or 3 years ago (or even just a year ago), but I know that I'm gradually feeling better, and I find myself everyday feeling very fortunate to have regained the health that I have. In August, September, October, and most of November I would have given anything to have just one day in which I felt as good as I do today. Of course, now today I want more. I want to feel this much healthier again. I've very aware though that I might need to wait another 4 or 5 months for this to occur. If there's been one consistent thing in all of this it's that my condition never seems to improve significantly from day to day, but rather from week to week, or month to month. At some point I expect to feel healthy enough that I look at this slow change as a good thing. When we are feeling the way we want to feel we don't want there to be any significant change.<br />
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Total change of subject: Winter has finally come here in Boulder. We have had about 3 feet of snow in the past week, and from what I hear there may be another storm on the way next week. I've been able to tell that I'm finally (after nearly 3 years living here during the school year) feeling a little more attached to the land and the culture in this part of the world. Previously I've cared about the land in this area because I care about many of the people that live here, but I haven't had a personal emotional attachment to the land. Colorado has been in the midst of pretty severe drought for quite some time now, and it may sound harsh, but I haven't really cared one way or the other whether the drought continues or the drought ends. I still see that's it's one of those things that is beyond our control and in the larger picture doesn't really mean a whole lot, but I do recognize that these phases of dry climate are hard on life in this area. Whether it's vegetation, wildlife, or humans, pretty much every living thing will have a slightly better next several months because of the snow that's falling now. I think I now have enough attachment to this place that for the first time I take some small amount of solace in this reality.<br />
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On one more note, entry is still open for this summer's Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp. The July session is essentially filled up, but there are still a few spaces left in the June 11-18th session. I know some people have been reluctant to sign up because of my health, but I do plan to definitely go forward with the camps as planned. At this point I'm fairly optimistic that I'll be able to lead most or all of the runs during the camps, as I have now begun to get out for short runs 4 or 5 days a week (I even ran a 5k race this past weekend, albeit I'm not sure I broke 40 minutes). If I improve as much in the next two months as I have in the past two then I should be able to lead all the runs with relative ease. Not to worry though, even if my health does hold me back I have some great local help lined up to lead any runs that I'm not able to take part in. Another fun way to look at it: this might be your only chance to come run with me in Alaska with the dynamic in which I'm the one that you're waiting up for :) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-83269647737386955322013-04-06T15:49:00.000-08:002013-04-06T15:49:13.155-08:00April ShowersWow, how did it get to be April? I feel like a few weeks ago it was July. I guess that's just as well as I've been "sick" for the past 8 months. At least the time has generally seemed to go by quickly. I have continued to make overall improvement in my health, and now when I have "good days" I feel almost normal. Unfortunately I still have some "bad days" mixed in when I feel pretty shitty. The good thing is that now when I don't feel good it's generally isolated to general fatigue, and not so many of the more acute, debilitating symptoms that I had most of the first 4 or 5 months. I even just recently put together a stretch of 3 weeks in which I was feeling the best that I've felt since this all started last summer. Unfortunately it hasn't lasted as I feel not so great again this week, but "not so great" now would have been a good week a few months ago. It's been hard sometimes to keep the larger picture perspective and remember how much better I am doing than I was at one point, but when I stop and consider specific markers and symptoms, it's really easy for me to definitely say that I am feeling way better than I was last fall.<br />
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I still find it necessary to be very conservative with my physical activity (something that I'm not always able to pull off), but it's been so nice these past couple months to be able to more or less do a little bit of activity everyday. The hard part has been not overdoing it when I do feel good. I think I did this last week. We were out in Utah for spring break, the weather was perfect, I was feeling the best I've felt in 8 months, and I definitely did more physical activity than I have in a long time (mostly in the form of a couple decent length MTB rides). The hard part though has been the reality that my symptoms seem to ebb and flow somewhat independent of anything that I do. Sometimes it seems like I take it really easy for several days and I still feel horrible and other times I feel like I'm on the edge of doing too much, but I continue to feel great for several days. I think what is going on is that there is a lag time of several days between what I do physically and how I feel. In this sense I don't feel good from resting soon enough to totally trust that I need the rest, and I don't feel tired out from physical activity soon enough to back off and let my body catch up with my desire to be outside having fun. Overall though, I'll take this balancing act any day over the big questions of last fall which tended to be more something like: "what is that stabbing pain in my neck?" or "why does my right hand go numb every time I sit down in a chair?" or "why did I piss 35 times yesterday and 3 times today, even though I drank the same amount of water each day?" These are all somewhat exaggerated examples, but only somewhat.<br />
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The point is, I'm getting better, but I still have a ways to go. The great thing is that with the improved health and the beginning of spring like weather my mood has been much better. I always get a little depressed when I don't feel so good, but at least now the depression isn't mixed with so much fear and confusion. I still have no idea if I'll ever be able to run the way that I used to (or if I even want to), but I do know that I am getting better and better with the passing months, and with time my life will be able to return more or less to "normal", in any ways that it hasn't already. It's so nice to finally be able to wake up each day knowing that I will have the health to pretty much do anything that I want to, with the exception of running for several hours. For that I will have to wait several more weeks, months, or longer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-53556697560330779992013-03-11T15:48:00.000-08:002013-03-11T15:48:16.867-08:00FluidFlexI've worn <a href="http://www.montrail.com/Men%27s-Mountain-Masochist%E2%84%A2-II/GM2141,default,pd.html&colorID=031">Montrail Mountain Masochist</a> on nearly every run that I've done in the past 4 years. They are by far the best shoes I have ever worn. I have tried several other shoes in this time, but my feet and my body have become so adapted to the Mountain Masochist that I find pretty much everything else fairly uncomfortable. I've found a few shoes here and there that I use for very specific conditions. For example the <a href="http://www.montrail.com/Men%27s-Badrock%E2%84%A2/GM2123,default,pd.html">Montrail Badrock</a>, with their really wide toe box and huge lugs on the outsole are perfect snow running shoes. On well over 90% of my runs though I have worn the Mountain Masochist.<br />
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I wear them on the most rugged, gnarly trails and I wear them on roads. Wet, dry, hot, cold, mud, sand, snow - pretty much every condition and every surface. It's been really great to have a shoe that I trust so much and feel so comfortable in, but I'm also aware that I've adapted so much to this one particular shoe that it's nearly impossible for me to wear anything else. As long as Montrail keeps making these shoes, and making them the same way, I have nothing to worry about. The reality though is that four years is a really long time in the running shoe industry. The Mountain Masochist are one of the few shoes in existence that are more or less the same as they were four years ago. Lucky for me. It's been a good run (sorry for the silly pun, I couldn't resist). For all I know Montrail might make the Masochist for another four years, but I'm not counting on it.<br />
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Enter my current health issues that have pretty much eliminated all running for me over the past 7 months. I try to find the good in all situations, and one thing that has been nice about not running for so long is that my body has essentially reset, thus I am no longer adapted so entirely to one shoe. I'm sure I will do a lot of running in the Mountain Masochist in the future, but it's been nice as I begin to run a bit more (I've been running one or two days a week the past several weeks) to explore some new shoes and actually be able to have a more natural response to them, rather than just wishing that I was wearing the Masochist. Through this process there is one shoe that I have become really excited about: <a href="http://www.montrail.com/Men%27s-FluidFlex%E2%84%A2/GM2149,default,pd.html">The Montrail FluidFlex</a>. <br />
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I've worn them on the last 3 or 4 runs I've done and absolutely love them so far. I've run in 4 or 5 shoes in the past that are less than about 8.5 ounces, and these are the first ones that don't feel too minimal to me. They pretty much feel like the same amount of support and stability as the Masochist, at 3 ounces lighter per shoe! I'm sure some of this is a result of the dynamic I mention above, and if I tried these shoes after I had just run a couple thousand miles in the Masochist over the last 7 months (instead of zero) they might feel a lot different. This said though, I have also been running a bit lately in the<a href="http://www.montrail.com/Men%27s-Rogue-Fly%E2%84%A2/GM2143,default,pd.html&colorID=031"> Montrail Rogue Fly</a>, and although I like these shoes a fair amount, they feel like they support my feet and my body so much less than the FluidFlex (even though they are the same weight).<br />
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To make a long story short: if you haven't yet tried the FluidFlex I highly recommend them. Another good thing about them: at $90 a pair they are a steal compared to so much else that's on the market nowadays. For some reason, as the average shoe has been stripped down more and more the price has skyrocketed. Obviously this has everything to do with the demand for minimal shoes, but it's cool to see that Montrail isn't playing the game of charging $125+ for a pair of minimal shoes that so obviously uses far less materials and technology than other, more traditional shoes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-63378357108630932002013-03-06T14:31:00.000-09:002013-03-06T14:31:12.218-09:0048 for 48The Iditarod Trail Invitational to McGrath is now over (8 or 9 racers are continuing on the full distance to Nome). 48 people started the race just over 10 days ago now, and every single one of them finished within the 10 day "limit". Of all the amazing things that happened in this race this year, this is by far the most mind boggling. From my 3 times starting this race I feel like in any given year the odds of finishing the race are probably somewhere around 50/50. Last year the majority of the field dropped out without even making it 100 miles. Obviously the trail conditions are everything in this race, but 350 miles is really damn far no matter what the trail is like. I have never heard of a 100 mile race in which every starter made it to the finish. To have this happen in a 350 mile race, in Alaska, in the dead of winter is nothing short of amazing. Good work to everyone out there. Sure wish I could have been a part of the "fun".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-66187041681531830702013-03-03T16:30:00.001-09:002013-03-03T16:30:37.666-09:00ITI Analysis and Other ObservationsIt's been quite some time since I've posted anything on here. Not a whole lot is new with me. Still far from recovered, but slowly getting a bit better with the passing months (with some definite bumps in the road along the way). As my health improves I'm becoming gradually a bit more active, but my main focus lately has been on things other than running. It's easy for me to go for a hike or a bike ride and take it really easy. With running though it's not so easy for me to keep it mellow. For this reason I've mostly been avoiding much running, as a means of avoiding overdoing it too soon.<br />
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I took a trip with Elle out to southern Utah a couple weeks ago. Forgot how much I love it out there. I'm not sure exactly what it is even, but I can be anywhere in the Utah desert and just walk off into the landscape and explore for hours on end. Most places I've ever been I need to seek out things within the landscape that interest me: creeks, mountain viewpoints, interesting plants, etc. In Southern Utah though, I can be anywhere and just walk off through the land and be entirely captivated by the simplest things: sand, rocks, juniper trees, pine cones, etc. Even in Alaska, where I love the land so deeply, it isn't as intriguing to me on a micro scale as is Southern Utah. Corle and Elle have spring break in 3 weeks, and I'm counting down the days, because we're taking off to Utah as soon as they're both out of class for 9 days.<br />
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The past week I've spent closely following the <a href="http://www.alaskaultrasport.com/alaska_ultra_home_page.html">Iditarod Trail Invitational. </a>It's been a crazy year for this race (I guess every year is a crazy year for this race). The top 7 or 8 bike finishers all broke the previous race record. The interesting thing about this is that they really weren't riding any of the stretches any faster than many previous years, they just didn't take any rest. They were certainly aided by a trail that didn't seem to have any serious bad stretches (unlike last year in which the entire trail was pretty much "bad"), but more than anything I think there were just so many strong riders that they just kept pushing on with no rest. This seemed to break a few of them, but many of them were able to hang on to the end, going more than two and a half days without any legitimate sleep! It will be interesting to see if this is a trend that continues into future races (when the trail is good). My approach to this race has always been to rest a little more than most people, and then move faster when I am on the move. This is in the foot division though, in which you pretty much have to sleep because you are going to be out there well over 4 days no matter how you do it. On a bike though, it seems like this year's race may open up a door in which riders at the front of the pack essentially ride the race with no sleep. Of course this all is dependent on trail conditions, and in well over half the years to come it just won't be an option at all to finish in under 3 days (at which point you almost certainly need to mix in a more substantial amount of rest).<br />
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In the foot division, Dave Johnston went for it right from the start and made the first ever serious threat to Steve Reifenstuhl's race record of 4 days 15 hours. In the end Dave came up about 4 hours short, but his run could have changed some things for the way this event is approached by runners in the future as well. Until this year I think most people (myself included) thought that Steve was essentially a maniac, and that no one would ever make a serious attempt at doing this race faster than he did on foot. I can put together the pieces in my mind to see how you could do this race in about the time that Steve did, but this would be absolutely best case scenario, as soon as one thing goes wrong that sets you back 2 or 3 hours you are not going to make it. My thought has always been that over the course of 350 miles something will have to go wrong. For this reason I have always thought of Steve's record here as the most impressive performance I am aware of in endurance athletics. I still feel this way, but it was really cool to see Dave come so close to cracking the puzzle. Can't wait to hear Dave's perspective on it. My guess is that he can easily pick out some areas in which he could have made up 4 hours, because that's just the way racing is.<br />
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Beyond this I was super stoked to see my good friend <a href="http://alpine-works.com/footnotes/">Joe </a>finish as strong as he did. He tied for second in the foot division, and his time is certainly one of the fastest ever on foot for a rookie in this race. Normally I don't take much credence in the idea that being a rookie is a huge disadvantage in a race. Even in a 100 mile race you really don't need to have much knowledge of the race and the course to have a great race. You are going to go out and run the entire course in one shot, it will typically be marked quite well the full distance of the course, and at the end of the day all you really need to do is go out and run the thing as fast as you can. Course knowledge might be able to get you and extra 10 or 15 minutes, but when people talk about past experience on a particular course meaning anything much more than that I think they are over dramatizing the situation. In the case of the ITI though, I do think race experience is a huge factor. You aren't doing this race in one strong push as fast as you can go. You are constantly making decisions about when to push on, when to rest, when to push hard, when to take it easy. You go through several different phases over the course of the race in which you are so worn out that you can't continue to move. You rest and then move on. The management of these cycles is the most important part of doing the ITI quickly. As Jeff Oatley, one of the most accomplished ITI cyclists told me: You are constantly making decisions about what to do at a given time in the race based on where you will be and what you will be doing 50 or 100 miles down the trail. If you have never seen what lies in the next 50 or 100 miles you will have a much harder time making the most efficient decisions. Yes, it could be said that this dynamic exists in any race that you do, and to some degree I suppose it does, but in the ITI you go beyond a tipping point in which this kind of knowledge and experience can go from making a 10 or 15 minute difference to something more like a 15 or 20 hour difference (or more). All of this said though, I'm pretty sure Steve Reifenstuhl was a race rookie when he set the race record in 2005 (which either debunks my whole theory here, or makes his performance all that much more impressive - probably a bit of both).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-823767464135429772013-02-08T21:50:00.000-09:002013-02-08T21:50:34.115-09:00I've Come A Long Way, But I've Still A Long Way To GoI've been plugging along getting ever so slowly more and more healthy. At times it's been really hard because it's most certainly not been a continuous path of improvement. Over the course of weeks and months I have had definitive improvement, but I have stretches of a few days at a time in which I feel worse than I did previous to that. It's these phases when I have the hardest time staying positive and upbeat about my health. Luckily these "bad" stretches never seem to last more than a few days at a time.<br />
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This said, I have been able to start to be a bit active most everyday. Some days this means just biking to the store and back or doing a little 30 minute strength/balance/flexibility routine at home, but on good days I'm able to get out and run for 30 or 40 minutes or bike for 10 or 15 miles. I still haven't had a single day in over 6 months now in which I would say I've felt 100%, but it's nice to finally be in a place where I can at least do a little something with my body most every day.<br />
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As I start to get a little more active it's been interesting to begin to notice just how out of shape I've gotten. It's been so long since my muscles have been as weak and undeveloped as they are right now. It would have been great to never sink as low as I have, but at the same time I feel like I'm being given a great opportunity to do the whole getting into shape thing all over again, and with a lot more knowledge and experience than I had the last time around. Should be fun to see where that takes me.<br />
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Currently I'm in Alaska for a short one week visit. Got out yesterday on a 4 hour mountain snowshoe on a ridge line that I've never been on before. After a couple month stretch in the fall in which my health was so compromised that I thought I might never run in the mountains again it feels so nice to be back to the point in which I have the health to head up into the mountains and explore new places and absorb the energy of remote, largely untraveled places. It might sound dramatic, but I certainly got pretty emotional about being able to do something like this yesterday, after not even having the option to do this for 6 months. I still have a long ways to go to get back to anything resembling "normal," but yesterday was a huge step in moving closer to where I want to be eventually.<br />
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In other news, I was recently interviewed for the current Talk Ultra episode. Some stuff about Western States 2010 (as well as my thoughts on Western States this past year), Iditarod Invitational, and my current health struggles (among other things). <a href="http://www.marathontalk.com/archive/talk_ultra.php">Click here to listen.</a><br />
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Also, a little update on this summer's Alaska Mountain ultrarunning camp sessions: we are still taking applicants for both sessions. There are 3 or 4 spaces left in each session so if you want to join us for a week in running paradise this summer try to get the application/deposit to us soon to guarantee your space.<a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/"> Click here for all the info.</a> Also, we are still taking applications for need based camp scholarships until the end of February.<a href="http://akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/scholarships.html"> Here's the link for that.</a><br />
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That's about all for now. Spring is just around the corner. Get out and enjoy these last several weeks of winter, all the while gaining a little more energy each day with the lengthening days, the warmer weather, and the promise of a new season. I know this is what I'll be doing these next several weeks.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-13662943458519817892013-01-16T14:46:00.000-09:002013-01-16T14:46:03.799-09:00A Vacation In PhotosJust returned from a 3 week "vacation" to Juneau. I felt pretty good most of the time I was there so I was able to get outside more than I have since last summer. Couldn't have asked for better timing to have three weeks of good health, because there is simply unlimited stuff do in the outdoors around Juneau. As wild and remote as some of these photos look the vast majority of these were taken in places that you can walk to in an hour or less from the center of town:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-41569528072258399662013-01-01T11:39:00.001-09:002013-01-01T11:39:38.820-09:002013Happy New Year everyone. I know it's cliche to say, but I'm looking for 2013 to be a new beginning for me, maybe more than any of my 36 years to date (more about this in a future post when I have more time). Hope you all have lots of things you're looking forward to improving on and moving toward this year.<br />
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<a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/scholarships.html">As promised, the Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp Scholarship applications are now available over on the camp website</a>. If you are interested in applying for one of these scholarships please get the completed application to me by the end of February. We were able to raise enough funding for 2 full scholarships (all camp fees and up to $850 in travel expenses). We also have a limited amount of funding in addition to this which will be offered as partial scholarships or, if not accepted, rolled over into funding for the program in 2014. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this program. You're support is generous and deeply appreciated.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807027359418593456.post-5756064408313301632012-12-24T11:28:00.001-09:002012-12-24T11:29:06.911-09:00One Last ReminderOne last reminder for anyone interested in contributing to the<a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/scholarships.html"> Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camp Scholarship Fund</a> - the deadline for contributing to the 2013 fund is coming up (Dec. 31st). Certainly we will very much appreciate any contributions made after the end of the year, but those donations would be applied to the 2014 scholarships and not the 2013 scholarships.<br />
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The response to these scholarships has been very positive. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed already. I will be tallying up the total funding available next week, and announcing the number and dollar amounts of scholarships that will be available for 2013. For those of you interested in applying for one of these scholarships please check out<a href="http://www.akultracamp.blogspot.com/p/scholarships.html"> the camp website </a>sometime after the first of the year where you will be able to print off the application and send it to me by the end of January.<br />
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