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THE ROAD

"Montoya could forgive anything of a bull fighter who had aficion, he could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had aficion he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me and all my friends. Without ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bullfighting." -Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The road is at once all things; a place to sharpen and tone our instinct, to test our will, and in the end to guide us home along its course however winding or direct. Sometimes what happens on the road makes us better and helps us to understand more fully the macro and not the micro of every day life and the training and the living we do in between. Yesterday I was tested and I fell, I won't say that I failed because I learned something.  So on Sunday today when the run was a little harder and I was a little more sore and a little les...

Searching for the gilded lining

The trajectory for running ultras seems to follow two different paths, the fork in the road seems to come after the first real ultra running season. After putting 2016 in the books at JFK, I took some serious time off, slept in, got sick, and now with some time(and pounds) under my belt I'm ready to commit for '17. Just a quick recap... Franklin Mountain Trail Run TROT Franklin Mountain... dude, these Texas mountains are not a joke, no games here, this is the territory that went unsettled for a reason. Jeremiah Johnson is spending no time in the Franklin Mountains!! Race day was cold and windy, when I say windy I don't mean a slight breeze out of the west I mean sustained with some serious gusts, enough to blow people off the side of the mountain and do some serious aid station removal. After surviving, a key word here, the first two or three miles we finally got some reprieve from the wind thanks to mother mountain, of course it would rear its ugly head again o...