Illinois Prairie

As you all know by now, this moose is migratory. I’m currently spending my work-weeks

in the suburban Chicago area, which you might think is just one traffic light after the next. For the most part, you’re right! There’s also plenty of malls, traffic, restaurants, and trivialities to keep the fauna from seeing the floura so to speak. [Read more...]

Or, “The Bluff Course is Actually Shaped Like a Cherry”

I could say all the normal things about my first 50k, like how intense, dramatic, or world-changing this half-day race had turned out to be. Or, how the training worked, the diet held up, the equipment was well-planned. Instead, with tongue firmly in cheek, I would like to describe how the first 50k in fact closely mirrors another important milestone in life – the loss of virginity.

You see, like my 50k race, the voyage into maturity also required a great deal of training and experimentation. It’s not like reading a book can quite prepare you for everything that you might experience or encounter. Much like the 50k, the journey into adulthood required research, planning, coaching, and a good deal of strategy and luck. Here are some of the things that I found were similar – or very different – between the two events. [Read more...]