Race Reports Running With Joy Personal challenges & growth are important, and competition is great for spurring growth, but a huge factor in what those challenges look like should be joy. 2019 Tor Des Geants This was my first race other than Barkley where merely finishing felt like a huge achievement, but there’s also that feeling that I could have done much better. 2019 Ronda dels Cims, A Mountain Too Far I over extended myself; that’s on me the same as if I had failed to train. This might be a low point, but like ultras themselves it doesn’t always get worse. 2019 Lavaredo 120K, or How I Took My First Helicopter Ride Lavaredo had a lot of firsts for me and is a race I’ll never forget, but overall it wasn’t my best performance. The Grand Round – A Fun Run Of course I wish I had finished, but I gained more than I could have imagined. For two years nothing else has captured my passion the way that Barkley once did. 2019 Barkley Marathons I had found the answer I was looking for: how the different circumstances altered my motivation and how that motivation affected what I could do. It was not what I wanted the answer to be, but it was what I needed to know. Load More Loading More… You’ve reached the end of the list Share this:FacebookXEmailWhatsApp
Running With Joy Personal challenges & growth are important, and competition is great for spurring growth, but a huge factor in what those challenges look like should be joy.
2019 Tor Des Geants This was my first race other than Barkley where merely finishing felt like a huge achievement, but there’s also that feeling that I could have done much better.
2019 Ronda dels Cims, A Mountain Too Far I over extended myself; that’s on me the same as if I had failed to train. This might be a low point, but like ultras themselves it doesn’t always get worse.
2019 Lavaredo 120K, or How I Took My First Helicopter Ride Lavaredo had a lot of firsts for me and is a race I’ll never forget, but overall it wasn’t my best performance.
The Grand Round – A Fun Run Of course I wish I had finished, but I gained more than I could have imagined. For two years nothing else has captured my passion the way that Barkley once did.
2019 Barkley Marathons I had found the answer I was looking for: how the different circumstances altered my motivation and how that motivation affected what I could do. It was not what I wanted the answer to be, but it was what I needed to know.