CLICK HERE FOR PART 2 Race Day: Sunday, October 18, 2026 – 9:30am I woke up to my alarm feeling sleepy. There were food dishes everywhere, my room a mess. My body a mess. My life a mess! Gah! I got up and felt rightfully creaky. But hey, easily good enough to run. I knew […]

CLICK HERE FOR PART 1 Race Date: Saturday, October 18, 2026 – 6:00am After tossing my name in the hat for Wild Duluth, I felt very lost and confused about training, the race itself, and what I wanted to do. The last time I had done the Wild Duluth 100k, I defended my winning title […]

Race Date: Friday, September 11, 2026 – 8am Superior Fall Trail Race – 100 Mile. I’ve been conditioned by the “yaboiscottjurek” instagram page to not write DNF blog posts, but up to this point I’d been lucky enough to not have to consider it. Well, wrapping it into a regular blog post is a grey […]

Race Date: Sunday, August 2, 2026 – 8:30am I had so many excuses to not show up for this race. The day before, I woke up quite early to work. I really wanted to get a few hours running on the trail after that, but was tired and hungry. I got a two hour run […]