Monthly Archive: September 2011

Sep
25

Moving On and First Descents

“Either you run the day or the day runs you. ” Jim Rohn   After nearly 5 weeks of laying low and easing back into more normal patterns I am ready to return to training. Focusing for the first time in 2 plus years on goals that don’t involve an end date in Colorado. I am …

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Sep
19

Marshall Law

This post would make little sense if you didn’t know who Marshall Ulrich is, so I’ll start there. Google Marshall Ulrich and what should appear is simply the moniker:’The f@$kin’ man’, the end. What you’ll most likely get however are the stats of a man who has simply redefined endurance athletics and even at 60 …

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Sep
17

Charting a new Course.

In a bit of a thought continuance from the last post I have been doing a lot of thinking about the results side of training. Wondering if the finish results are equal the time and effort put in.  Given a  lot of time was put into just getting a finishing result but I have begun …

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Sep
12

Evolutiona-ry(an)

Darunism

  The slow return to a normal training schedule has afforded me the time to look back a little and finally gain some appreciation for my personal progress.   We are  just a few weeks shy of the 3 year mark since I completed my first marathon in Victoria. That is the day that I …

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Sep
09

Regaining some Focus

This late summer heat wave that has hit western Canada has been a nice distraction and made it easy for me to put off returning to training. Which, is a good thing, although I feel kind of sluggish and heavy has been necessary. I have had a swollen right achillies tendon on my right foot …

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Sep
03

…a comical display of abject misery.

  ..”never witnessed such a comical display of abject misery.” is the quote used by American Ultra-running phenom Dakota Jones to describe the effort of Hal Koerner during Hals push for the finish at last weekends UTMB. I wont pretend to know a lot about the UTMB course but it combined with nasty weather made …

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Sep
01

Recovery

Very near the start of mile  100

Sept 1, is the end of a 10 day ‘off-feet’ period. The recovery is going very well and I have felt very much back to normal since last Thursday. The biggest issue during this recovery has been trying to get off my feet. They took the brunt of the damage in Leadville. The rest of …

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