There’s a distinct peace that comes with deciding you’re as good as you’ll ever be, when, creekside, you sit under an awning, riffled by the wind, the sun on your arm, a beer in your hand, and your comrades at your side, laughing and exchanging wild stories, too many Hawaiian sweet rolls and not enough … Read more
Into the Maine Woods With Bernd “Henry David” Heinrich. ould you like to travel through time? Of course you would! So how Jeen traveling back to 1981 and Chicago’s Lakefront to witness one of the greatest ultramarathons ever raced? But maybe even further back than that to, say, New England during August of 1846. You … Read more
Preparing for the world’s greatest ultramarathon. ome people would say that there are two kinds of ultrarunners: those who S have run Comrades, and those who want to. Comrades is famous in the world of ultramarathoning as the largest ultramarathon in the world. Although it is less well known in the general running community in … Read more
The amazing recovery of Richard Dodd. jump wouldn’t be far, no more than 10 feet; surely the fall itself wouldn’t kill him. It was clear the unforgiving river would perform the task in a numbing and seamless fashion. He grasped the wrought-iron railing with gloveless hands until the frozen metal burned his palms. He gripped … Read more
Max your training with available technology. to the signpost that says, “Here be the analysis tools for self-coached runners.” It’s not fair. For the recreational runners whose goal is to finish a marathon, there are social websites like Strava and Garmin Connect. Recreational runners get to see colorful graphs of their runs and even post … Read more
Dick Beardsley at the 1981 London Marathon: a symbol for the new running movement. April 26, 2015. All finishers, more than 35,000 of them, were encouraged by a big social-media campaign to cross the line hand in hand with another runner. Thousands did. Normally stiff-lipped Brits went soggy with goodwill as they grasped a random … Read more
My road to Alamosa. I find myself feeling more and more out of place, a dodo of sorts from a bygone era. Looking around at my fellow runners eagerly awaiting the starter’s gun, seeing their color-coordinated outfits, hydration packs, and those ubiquitous packets of GU, I feel strangely old. I find myself longing for the … Read more
© MarathonFotocom Oh, so close My first “real” attempt at running a sub-2:43 marathon on a certified course was at Boston in 2014. Grateful to run on such a historic and beloved course, I loved every minute of that Boston Marathon until the very last minute, when I crossed the line in 2:43:27. I was … Read more
Who needs a marked course? here’s George? It’s 9:00 p.m. I’m standing at checkpoint #6, high in the Shawangunk Mountains. The woods, tangled and dark, envelop us. One volunteer is still here, but I had let search and rescue stand down at dusk. That might have been a bad call. George is nothing if not … Read more
Triple the Fun There are certain charms to going way longer. n 2007, I had been doing Ironmans for about six years and wished to attempt something longer. It was a natural choice to go for one of the multiples of Iron distance. After looking around I found a double Ironman in Virginia. Then I … Read more
Even the worst of us eventually mature. and she was scared to sleep in her own room, I would charge her to sleep in my room. When I was with my friends, I would make her walk on the other side of the street. I don’t remember doing either of these things, but I don’t … Read more
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