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 […]
Read MoreRace 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 […]
Read MoreRace Day: Friday, September 4, 2025 – 8am It was the middle of the night, so late that roughly 364 nights of the year I’m sleeping at that hour, in the middle of the woods near Finland, Minnesota when I decided that putting my name in for the revered Superior 100 was the best life […]
Read MoreRace Date: Sunday, August 3, 2025 – 8:30am Going into the 2025 Brewhouse Triathlon, I felt dread. I didn’t want to do it. I was looking for an excuse to not do it. Go camping instead? Meh, I didn’t have a good enough excuse. I pushed off getting ready until the very last minute – […]
Read MoreSaturday, July 26, 2025 – 6am In the muggy, hazy early morning hours of Carlton, Minnesota it was all coming together for a great race. Ate breakfast, had some caffeine, found a bathroom near the finish line, found some sunscreen that I forgot (this had happened before)(thanks Lynette), my sister and brother were all set […]
Read MoreRace Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025 – 8:15am Grandma’s Marathon is one of the most fun weeks of the year, and I very much enjoyed the traditions that have started to become engrained. I registered for the marathon way back in October 2024 at Hoops Brewing, as a registration-day group run party type thing. After […]
Read MoreWild 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 […]
Read MoreRace 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 […]
Read MoreSaturday, 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 […]
Read MoreRace 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, […]
Read MoreRace 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 […]
Read MoreRace Date: Saturday, May 27, 2023 – 8am What a race! I have rarely felt so underprepared in all ways, but the outcome was the opposite of my expectations. When the go-ahead was announced for the “casual roll” to begin, I expected my chain to fall off my bike. Instead, I cranked up the hill […]
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