Race Date: Saturday, February 22, 2020 – 9am There was excitement at the start line for the four hour loop race. I don’t think many people had done a fixed time winter trail run before. It was my birthday. I think that might have been a first for me, too, racing on my birthday. Either […]
Read MoreRace Date: Saturday, February 8, 2020 – 10:00am I felt somehow calm at the start line, despite the fact that it was really crazy… I was about to begin a really long ski, a ski race in fact, with many others around me, after less than a month of learning and training!? What else but […]
Read MoreRace Date: Saturday, January 4, 2020 – 9:30am After very challenging conditions one year prior, I was certain by race week that the trail surface at this year’s Northwoods would be prime. All it takes is one day to totally destroy or totally repair the trails in winter but the forecast looked prime and things […]
Read MoreWild Duluth 100k Race Day: Saturday, October 19 – 6am Terribly Tough 10k Race Day: Sunday, October 20 – 9:30am I had a pit in my stomach in the dark, headlamp shining, as I stood with 80 other runners at the start line of the Wild Duluth 100k. Sure, I was a bit nervous. 100 […]
Read MoreRace Date: Sunday, August 4, 2019 – 8:30am I strolled up to the race venue at beautiful Island Lake outside of Duluth with a bit more than an hour before race time. It was nervewracking to feel late! I felt confident in my abilities to win this race for the 8th time and just wanted […]
Read MoreRace Date: Saturday, June 22, 2019 – 7:45am At the start line, lined up next to my friends Ian and Kyle way up front, I said “let’s get that three hour boys”. Then the moment where you know the start is imminent, then air horns through the microphone and the huge mass lurches forward. Nobody […]
Read MoreRace Date: Saturday, June 15, 2019 – 8:30am Inline skating is a fun way to race. I was super excited to race a marathon, 26.2 miles, on skates, and had a pretty laid-back attitude towards Apostle Islands Inline Marathon up to race week. I actually got some good training in, felt pretty confident that I […]
Read MoreRace Date: Saturday, March 9, 2019 – 7am Two days before race day I landed in Las Vegas with my mom, business partner Kris, and brother Andrew. We were all traveling to Page, Arizona for the Antelope Canyon Ultras, a trail race of varying distances through the desert and deep canyons of northern Arizona. This […]
Read MoreRace day: Saturday, January 5, 2019-9:30am I was so excited to race, it was the best feeling to jump off the start line and be with the big pack of runners. The first minute was by far the easiest part of the day. Leading up to the Northwoods Winter Trail Marathon, training had been pretty […]
Read MoreRace Day: Saturday, June 9, 2018 – 10am At the start line, nobody seemed to know exactly what they were getting into from here on out. The Last Runner Standing in Duluth was a new race just launched in early 2018 and on June 9, 66 runners set out on lap one. I heard about […]
Read MoreRace Day: Friday, September 8, 2017 – 8am I feel like I had been building up to this race for 3 years. I remember hearing about Superior as a lowly triathlete and being kind of mystified by the thought of a 100 miler, learning about Western States and other ultramarathons and thinking I’d never do […]
Read MoreRace Day: Saturday, July 29, 2017 – 6am With a race that has so much history and a legendary course, it’s hard not to derive some enjoyment out of the Voyageur Trail Ultra, even though it requires 50 grueling miles of running in the heat of the summer. On race week, all I could do […]
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