On Saturday, I drove to North Creek, NY for Sunday’s Gore JNQ 10 km skate race. It’s been a while since I’ve driven 260 miles in a snowstorm, and the first time in my new / used diesel Jetta. What’s generally a four-hour ride turned into a six hour slog, […]
Read More →At the eleventh hour, I signed up for the 10 km classic race at the North Creek Nordic Fest last Saturday. In October, I’d torn a hamstring during a hard interval workout and limped back to my car. It’s been a long road with careful, and dare I say, banal […]
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On Saturday, 3 August, I raced the App Gap Challenge, a 7.25 kilometer roller ski race in Fayston, VT. Starting near German Flats Road on Vermont Route 17, the race goes westward, finishing on top of Appalachian Gap. You know it’s steep when there are signs advising danger to trucks […]
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There’s a rock ‘n’ roll lyric for every occasion, and for the Whiteface Sky Race on 21 July, it was “Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.” I was definitely the bug. Two years ago, I didn’t think my knees would tolerate anything like this, but a couple of […]
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Respect the process. Over Memorial Day weekend, I drove to northern New York to run the Patch Sprint. I wrote about the race last year. The spirit and camaraderie of all those who’ve camped at Pok-o-MacCready is just really impressive, and I tried to catch that in the video below. I […]
Read More →On Saturday morning, I went back to the pain cave. Only this time, I wasn’t racing or doing an interval session in the woods. It was the return of the bane of my existence: a VO2 max / lactate threshold test on a treadmill. Since I’m not an elite runner […]
Read More →Aging is a natural process that we all go through. From the time we’re born, our bodies begin to age. It’s not something that should cause embarrassment, and there’s no reason to try and avoid it (because that’s not possible!). However, there are things you can to do to help […]
Read More →On Saturday 2 February, it was a balmy four degrees above zero as we started the Craftsbury Marathon. Dry, cold snow and bomber tracks meant that almost any colder kick wax would work. Whether my body would work for the whole distance was a question. In November 2014, I had […]
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