05-24-2010Mon-AM: 30 miles (4:40) Green-Bear-SoBo-Chat-Green, 7500′Ran 34:50 up the front of Green and then after tagging Bear and SoBo dropped down Shadow Canyon and took Mesa back to Chautauqua to climb Green one more time via Gregory-Ranger in 38:40.  Finished up with 3mi of barefoot…

(43 miles, 6h20min, 3xGreen Mt., 11,000′ climbing) Today was an encouraging outing on Boulder’s trails.  The past ten days have still left a fair number of questions/reservations in my mind about the relative wisdom in deciding to race at Western States.  Will my knee recover…

(Back to Green this week. Finally, without snow.) 05-17-2010Mon-AM: 13 miles (2:00) Green Mt. up and down Back, 2800′Unexpectedly quick 35:55 trip up Gregory-Ranger. 1mi barefoot 05-18-2010Tue-AM: 13 miles (2:00) Green Mt. up and down Back, 2800′Got this in early before hopping a plane to CT. 1mi barefoot. …

A full three weeks have passed without me making regular trips up Green Mt.  This week, thankfully, my knee has been allowing me to make myself a familiar figure up there once again. Yesterday I arrived back home in Boulder after nearly 12 hours of…

It’s been a while since I’ve had an update on here, but that’s mostly because I was consumed with finishing out the school year and also because Miwok caused my knee to suffer a bit of a relapse.  I was afraid of that going into…

Here are a few photos from the race on Saturday (from various folks) that I thought captured my day particularly well.  Thanks all for taking the time to snap a few shots!. (Final preparations at the hotel on race morning. Photo: Martin Mudry.) (Heading up…

I posted my race report for Miwok over at Running Times.  So, go ahead and click here to see it. Also, Jim from Hydrapak was industrious enough to take some fairly intimate footage of some of the back-and-forth that Mike Wardian and I engaged in…