Heather just completed this new “highlights reel” of the transcon, which she put together to help with the release of Running on Empty (sneak peeks coming in February) plus other related projects. If you like it, please share it around to help us get the word out. Enjoy!
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’Tis the season to think back and either wonder where the hell the year went or congratulate yourself on all that happened. If you’re like me, you do a little of both.
For Heather and me, 2010 brought the completion of some important goals (finish writing my first book, check), new friends and experiences (hello, social media), and more outdoor adventures (Badwater #16 plus expeditions to the mountains, desert, and jungle).
We also spent several weeks at the corporate farms in Colorado, had time with the kids, and went to Winona to visit Heather’s family. We even hit a spa in Mexico as my wife’s reward for all that she did and put up with during my run across America in 2008 and the book project in 2010. Yes, I submitted to the luxury ministrations and treatments—all strictly for Heather’s sake, of course. Oh, and this year, I also did something I rarely do: went on a “real” vacation with friends, not an athletic adventure, just a really pleasant, somewhat leisurely bike ride from Telluride to Moab.
Meanwhile, this blog got a makeover, and I’ve begun posting more regularly in an attempt to give you somewhere interesting to read about extreme endurance sports, something useful to do in your own training, and someone experienced to ask if you ever need help.
Hmmmm, did I succeed? You be the judge. Continue reading
Does the winter put a damper on your training? Or, when the mercury starts to drop, do you suck it up and go running in the cold anyway?
Where we live in the Colorado mountains, it gets chilly. Not that cold, my Minnesota-born wife, Heather, could attest, but cold enough. We’re below freezing our fair share during the winter months.
What about running in the cold, then?
No trouble. I run at home year-round, did a few hundred miles in freezing rain and snow on the east coast a few years ago, and competed in the Iditafoot 100-mile race in Alaska with my buddy Mark Macy, a snowshoe champion and ice climber—which I mention only so you know we both know something about low temps. He and I agree the key is simple … Continue reading
