I’m not usually one for putting lots of quotes in my blogs, but I think the things I want to say have already been said, more elegantly, by others, so we’ll start there: “Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness” said Dostoevsky. It seemed very noble when I read that from the comforts of my [...]
One of my big goals for this year is to run 50 miles. I had been planning on doing this at a race (and I am doing the Squamish 50 in August), but as it turns out, I’ll be confronting the distance before then. This weekend, in fact. I’m still pretty new to this whole [...]
It was Monday and I was already having a rough week. I was mentally exhausted from a long (but successful) week of collecting data down at Caltech, but my body was grumpy from a long week of collecting data and the 12 hour roundtrip solo drive. It’s the beginning of a new quarter, there are [...]
As Luke mentioned, we recently had the opportunity to take Arno Ilgner’s Falling and Commitment Clinic. I learned a lot of skills that I was able to start directly applying to my climbing, but I’ve actually found that some things are also just as useful for running. One of my main goals for this year [...]
Lizzy and I have been in the South Bay for three years now and are still discovering great trails to run on. As the blog clearly shows we have run more in the last few years than ever before. I’ve done a number of local and “weekend” runs that are so good that I have [...]
It’s no secret that mountain trail running has quickly become a big part of my life over the last year. I know the idea of intentionally running ridiculous distances instead of going rock climbing on a lovely summer weekend in the Sierra is pretty foreign to a lot of climbers. But they are a lot [...]
The more I reflect on our epic 17-hour journey through High Sierra passes and meadows, the more appropriate the name of this area: the Evolution Group. The mountains that served as the backdrop for our adventure are named after famous evolutionary scientists, but for me, this was about more than just Darwin. I am still [...]
This is it, the big one. I’ve been thinking about running this loop almost a year now, since that initial Bishop Pass trail run. My original vision was to do the full 56 mile loop, but I’ve since realized that the smart choice for my current fitness is to do the shorter 36 mile loop [...]
We recently set out on a running adventure that we’d been planning for almost a year. Although all of us have done a fair amount of mountain and distance running, we’d never done anything like this before. The plan was simple: circumnavigate the Yosemite high country via the High Sierra Camp loop. The whole loop [...]
It wasn’t until the lonely slow miles 19-24 that I realized it hadn’t even been a whole year since I first started this crazy ultramarathon running journey. Prior to Labor Day 2011, I had run a number of half marathons and some shorter trail races, but I basically stilled “hated” running. This all changed that [...]
Climbing and I have a rather tempestuous relationship. Inevitably, after a period of good training and successful sends, I seem to get wrapped up in climbing for the numbers, for the tick list, for the sweet trip report, rather than because I want to climb something because it is fun and makes me happy. This, [...]
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