Wild Duluth 50k Race Day: Saturday September 19, 2024 – 8am With a light rain Saturday morning at Oldenburg Point in Jay Cooke State Park, me and a record field of starters awaited the conclusion of race director Andy Holak’s pre-race announcements. The boardwalks and rocks are like ICE, he said. This was a special […]

Race Date: Saturday August 10, 2024 – 12am midnight Back for more. Minutes before midnight on August 10th, in Gary Minnesota, I felt apprehension, fear, excitement, and like a certified bad man. (‘Bad man’ in the context of how Mr. T would compliment me). I signed up for the Day Across MN way, way back […]

Saturday, July 6, 2024 – 9am I was so pumped for the Freedhem race. No real expectations except to push my body hard, explore some new terrain I really haven’t seen before and have fun. I drove down with Ryan on race morning after a pretty unpleasant 4am wakeup call. I felt confident in my […]

Race Day: Saturday, September 9, 2023 – 5:15am With my pre-race routine perfectly completed, me and 150 friends shuffled through the muggy, pitch-dark early morning air towards the starting flags on County Road 7 in the outskirts of Finland, MN to start a 50 mile journey to Lutsen. I was so excited. 9 months prior, […]

Race Date: Saturday, June 17, 2023 – 7:45am My path to Grandma’s Marathon started in a painful state on the ride home from Twin Cities Marathon 8 months prior. I finished with a personal worst of 3:47 at the marathon, unless you include winter trail versions of the race distance… in which case I finished […]