Racing and baseball are my two favorite sports, and they are as different as any two sports can be. Racing is nonstop, no TV time outs, no injury time outs, no rest after each inning. Baseball is pastoral, the shortstop can wander in to the pitchers mound and strike up a conversation in the middle of …
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Muddy Sneaker 20k (I’m gonna walk up the side of the mountain)
Ever have one of those dreams where you just can’t manage to walk up a hill? No matter how much you try you just don’t go anywhere. That is the last 2 miles of the Muddy Sneaker 20k trail race in the High Tor Wilderness Area, and the picture above tells you all you need …
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Sweeps Week
Every competitive runner eventually learns that winning a race isn’t as much about them, as it is about who shows up. Unless you are the world record holder someone faster than you can always toe the line. Some might see this as fatalistic, or dis-empowering but I see it as freeing. Instead of worrying about …
A Dream of Spring (AKA the longest post ever)
“Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge …
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