Do you know the feeling when you beat one of your segment PRs on Strava by almost 3 minutes, at a significantly lower effort level than when you set your previous PR? I’ve been seeing this happen a lot lately. Not always by 3 minutes, though. Not even always improving my times, sometimes it’s just the feeling that I can run 10% more of that hill, sometimes it’s seeing my Garmin autolap me at a pace I wasn’t expecting. ...
Gratitude That’s where I want to start this race report. I couldn’t have done what I did without the help of many friends and volunteers. First and foremost: grateful for Kelly. She acted as both my crew chief and my pacer for lap 5. Without her pacing me, I wouldn’t have gotten in sub-22. Second, thank you to Jakob and Leandra. Jakob was my pacer for lap 4. On top of that, he also got stuff from my house I had forgotten. Third, thankful for Jen and Alex. Jen was my friend also running the 100 miler. Alex, her husband, acted as her crew chief, but also helped me out as well during my transitions. And finally, thanks to Josh! He’s a colleague who lets us borrow his gear for our crew tent spot. And he showed up the jeadquarters, just after I started lap 3, meaning sadly enough I missed him. ...
This Saturday, I’ll be towing the line for the Marin Ultra Challenge 50k. First ultra this year, first time ever that I’m doing the same ultra for a second time and first time running as an Inside Trail Ambassador. We left things on this blog at my SF half training. Well, the race went really well, more details on my Strava post. In this post, I want to detail my training for MUC, starting after my Javelina DNF and my race mindset for this Saturday! ...
My first race for 2025 is coming up, the San Francisco half marathon on Sunday, February 2nd. This will be my first road race since the Oakland half in 2022, and my first race back after the Javelina 100 DNF. I’m a little nervous going back to road racing, but training has showed I’m in good shape and I’m looking forward to a great race. That said, this is not a goal race for me. The half marathon was put on the schedule as a goal post for a speed block. That speed block is in service of my A-goal for the first half of 2025: doing better than I did last year at Canyons 100k! ...
Javelina 100 was my first attempt at the 100 mile distance, and lead to my first ever DNF in ultrarunning. I wanted to gather my thoughts here, for two reasons: first, to share a bit about the race with the community; and second, to help me process my DNF and think about what happened and what I should do differently next time. If you’re interested in my training, I detailed that in my training blog. ...
It’s weird how exactly 6 months ago I sat down to reflect on my training for the Canyons 100k. I really enjoyed writing that down, and I wanted to reflect on the past 6 months training for the Javelina 100M. If you’re interested in reading how my Canyons 100k went, I actually never cross-posted from Strava to this platform, so please head on over there to read my very drafty race review of Canyons. ...
I’m writing this about 2 weeks prior to the 2024 Canyons Endurance Run 100k. This will be my first 100k trail run, and I wanted to share of some of my race prep. I’m writing this as much for the community as I’m writing it to show myself I’m well prepared for the race. Let’s talk about: The race itself My physical training What I learned in tune-up 2 races to adjust my Canyons race plan My nutrition plan My goals and my fears. About Canyons Endurance Runs 100k Canyons is a trail running event held around Auburn, California, sharing parts of its course with the Western States course. The race is part of the UTMB world series, and serves as the North American Majors (meaning you get double stones for the UTMB lottery). The race has multiple distances, 25k, 50k, 100k and a 100M race. ...
2 weeks ago, I ran a 50k race in 6 hours and 32 minutes. Yesterday, I ran the Tahoe Rim Endurance Run 60k (watch says 64k) in 12hours and 30 minutes. This race was hard. It was hot. It was at elevation (ranging from 1500 to 2500m, 4900ft to 8900ft). There was snow. There was a lot of climbing, over 2000m (6000ft). And most of all: it was a lot of fun!!! ...