Race Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026 – 7:45am Around 7:45am under bluebird skies, a race announcer finished their countdown through numerous blaring loudspeakers, which started Corral A for the 50th Annual Grandma’s Marathon. I watched the whole ordeal from 250 feet away in a bathroom line. I dramatically looked down at my bib to reconfirm […]

Wild Duluth 50k Race Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025 – 8am I went into Wild Duluth feeling fit. I had insane amounts of racing under my belt from the previous six weeks – a 100 mile trail run, 100 mile gravel bike race, inline skating marathon, and six NMTC Fall trail race series races. The […]

Race Date: Saturday, October 5, 2025 – 8am The last time I signed up for the Heck of the North gravel bike race was 10 years prior, in 2015. Since then, I had upgraded my bike to a carbon crusher, finished a handful of 100+ races (Day Across MN ’21 and ’24, Le Grand Du […]

Race Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025 – 9:04am My first outing at the NorthShore Inline Marathon was a frenzied, anxious lead-up. My training was literally zero. I didn’t inline skate one time over the year, except the day before the race to make sure my skates were still operable and my feet wouldn’t wither and […]