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June 25, 2011: Black Hills 50-miler in 14:45.
April 30, 2011: Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim.
October 9, 2010: Firetrails 50-miler: finished in 11:38, despite being very overweight and having only about 5 weeks of training.
April 24, 2010: Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim
June 27-28, 2009: Western States: finished in 28.5 hours.
July 19-20, 2008: Tahoe Rim Trail 100-miler: dropped out at
mile 61 (again).
June 28-29, 2008: Western States: cancelled due to fire/smoke.
April 12, 2008: Mt. Diablo 50-miler: 13:39
March 22, 2008: Rucky Chucky Roundabout 50K, 6:44.
March 8, 2008: Way Too Cool 50K, 5:59:48.
Oct. 13, 2007: Firetrails 50-miler, 10:01.
Sep. 22-23, 2007: Rio del Lago 100-miler, 23:06!
May 5, 2007: Miwok 100k, 14:24.
Sep 24, 2006: Finished first 100-miler
(Rio del Lago) in 26 hours and 10 minutes.
July 15, 2006: Attempt at
Tahoe Rim Trail 100-Miler ended after
61 miles.
See also: TRT race website.
February 4, 2006: My best finish yet at an ultrarun, fifth
overall at the Jed Smith 50-miler. But...there were only 13
finishers!
October 15, 2005: Completed the Firetrails 50-miler.
Better pictures may be available at the Firetrails 50 website.
September 24, 2005: Story and pictures from the
Sierra Nevada Endurance Run 53-Miler.
July 16, 2005: Pictures (and some text) from the Tahoe Rim Trail
50-Miler. This event, with 10,000 vertical feet of climbing and an
average elevation of 8000 feet, makes AR50 look like a walk in the park. But
the views are absolutely stunning!
April 2, 2005: I completed the American River 50-Mile Endurance Run
and qualified for the 2006 Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run! You
can read all about it and see a few pictures.
February 2005:
Story and pictures from my trail running trip to
Patagonia.
I hope it's entertaining and, for anyone planning
a trip to Patagonia, useful. (Also see my pictures of
Cerro Tololo Interamerican
Observatory in Chile if you're interested.)
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Useful links:
- zinsli.com has searchable race
results for northern California races from 5k to 100+ miles. Just type
in someone's name and see every race they've finished! Major marathons
and ultras outside Norcal are also included. Searchable results go
back to the 1970's for some races.
- run100s.com is the most useful
ultra race calendar I've found (perhaps because of a bias toward
northern California, though). Worldwide, try ultramarathonrunning.com.
- Magazines: Trail Runner
magazine is a bit superficial, but I get it for the inspirational
pictures of places I may go running someday. Ultrarunning magazine is much more
in the low-key ultrarunner mindset (e.g., advice on where to get water
and how to avoid mule trains if you're running the Grand Canyon
rim-to-rim-to-rim), and it now has good color photography of the
beautiful places we run. It can be overly heavy on race reports
written by the race directors, making it vary from rather boring to
hilarious (e.g., the Barkley race report). Still, where else can you
get a feeling for what a six-day race or the Sri Chinmoy 3100-miler is
like? Perhaps Marathon and Beyond, which is in the format of a
small book and contains longer stories, usually written in the first
person by "regular runners" rather than journalists. I like that
aspect of it, but it can be overly devoted to road marathons for my
taste.
- Books: I found Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters
with the Ultramarathon to be very inspirational. This is a
collection of about 30 first-person stories by ultrarunners ranging
from elite to back-of-the-pack. I've read the whole thing about four
times, and each time there is something new that I can relate to. I
was also inspired by Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron
Ralston, the guy who cut off his arm after it was pinned by a boulder
while he was alone in the middle of nowhere. This guy had some
serious adventures even before that incident, and the book inspired me
to be more adventurous (still nothing like him though!).
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