March has been a tough month for me. I'm glad to see it go. It started out with a disastrous Iditarod Invitational attempt and then ...

The wall of wind has followed me since I left home, only now I have crossed to the east side of the channel and changed direction so that I...

I've lived in Juneau, Alaska for over 2 1/2 years now. For most of this time I have constantly had one foot out the door, always certai...

The newest shoe in the Montrail line is the Mountain Masochist . I got my first pair of these a couple weeks ago and have put about 80 mile...

I know I said a couple posts back that it would be my last post about this year's ITI . I lied. This post won't have anything to d...

For whatever reason I've had a lot of people in the past few weeks ask me for tips about training for ultras. The problem is that I don...

I think I'm finally coming around a corner with this stupid respiratory illness. I was even able to run 7 miles this morning! My longe...

I can't seem to get rid of this illness. I think this might be the longest that I have ever been sick. Going on 13 days. Ran 4 miles ...

This head cold that I came down with the day before the ITI has sure taken it's time moving through my system. At least I don't ha...

Jeff Oatley has made it into McGrath as this year's ITI winner. Congratulations Jeff. I know there were a lot of people rooting for...

One last post about my 2009 ITI experience: In almost every way it went poorly for me. I have never had anything (race or otherwise) that ...

Sometimes things just don't go your way. I had been anticipating this year's ITI since I dropped out of the same race one year ago...

For those of you interested in following along over the next week or so here are some various links that will enhance the "viewing...

My past year of racing has had many highlights but more or less all of the training and racing that I have done since I dropped out of the I...

After feeling pretty crappy on back to back 20 mile runs over the weekend I've decided to take my last week before the race easy and try...