Ask any longtime runner, and chances are there’s a race that holds a special place in his or her heart. Maybe it wasn’t their fastest race ever. But under some tough circumstances, it’s the effort they’re most proud of, the time they were able to dig the deepest. Perhaps it was a beautiful destination race […]
Hey there! I just flew home from Portland, Oregon yesterday, after an energizing-yet-completely-exhausting weekend at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit. I hung out with 499 amazing people for the weekend, talking about doing awesome work and about changing (okay, dominating) the world. (And enjoying really good vegan food truck options everywhere I went. Yay, Portland!) […]
A few weeks ago, I was in a major food rut. The problem was one of boredom. You see, for the past two years, I’d had the same mindset when it came to vegan protein, and it had served me well: add something relatively high in protein to every meal or snack, and you’ll be […]
In the first eight miles of the Laurel Highlands 50K — for which I trained almost entirely on the track, with precisely zero runs longer than seven miles — there was a 700-foot climb followed by a 500-footer followed by a 1200-footer. And all of it on rocky, technical terrain like I’ve never run before. […]
When I first tried to read the ChiRunning book after a friend recommended it to help me qualify for Boston, I couldn’t get through it. I really wanted to like it — the friend who recommended it to me is the same one who ran Badwater (135 miles) and Western States (100 miles) within two […]
“The Best Stuff I Read Last Week” was supposed to be a weekly chance to link out to the awesome stuff other people are doing on the web as it pertains to vegetarian/veganism, fitness, and general ass-kickery. Except this month, I haven’t been reading all that much. But that’s because I’ve been busy doing, so […]
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