“Are your eyelashes getting frozen shut with snow?” I heard my partner Sam yell, his voice barely cutting through the gale force wind on…
“There’s a special line for the crazy people over there!” A fellow American runner goaded us as we filed into the Centre Sportif in…
I’m elated to welcome my wife Maureen Cane to GDTTFB as my first ever guest author!! While I flew home immediately after UTMB to…
I collapsed on the table inside the white aid station tent at La Fouly, about 70 miles into my attempted circumnavigation of Mont Blanc.…
As I steadily pushed my way up the seemingly endless 1000 meter climb to the Refuge du Grenairon during the Tour des Huit Refuges,…
While the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic hit the West Coast in the early months of 2020, it wasn’t until the Shelter-in-Place and…
“IT’S GONNA TAKE A WHILE, BUT I’M GONNA SEND THIS THING.” – ME TO MY WIFE AT THE END OF LAP 1, MILE 50,…
I have been dreaming of running the Gran Trail Courmayeur Mountain Ultra since our last visit to the Alps two years ago in 2017.…
The Spring training block of 2019 went well for me. I got some February distance in with the First Annual Groundhog’s Day Lupe-fest, had…
It all started with an email from local East Bay Quadbanger Zak, with the lede “save the date for Another Bad Idea for a…