It has taken years for my stubborn mentality to recognize the following: a plan without some form of consistent accountability is wasteful. This past January, I completed my first 50K trail race. For three years...
7 Tips to Develop Habits for the Long Run
I’m currently sitting in my apartment scribbling notes, looking at my bookshelf, reading saved articles, and trying to come up with a topic and cobble together the required word count for this column. If I...
Fear Of Having Mislived And 5 Principles To Live The Good Life
Live a life true to yourself to live the good life.
Dirty Good Transitions
We've planted ourselves, we've uprooted ourselves, we've embarked on humble adventures, done some big races, dealt with injury, pursued more knowledge and continue to explore where we fit and what we're meant to do.
Fear is Good, Failure Necessary
Fear is good. Failure is necessary. I could end this post here and just hope you, the reader, accept that as fact, but most of us have grown up under the fiction that fear is...
How to Tackle the Role of Running Domestique
It’s grey, cold, and dumping buckets outside. I’ve been in a car for six hours listening to the strum thwack of wipers, squinting to determine if I’m staying between the striped lines, and white-knuckling the...
Craft a Year Full of Adventure and New Challenges
I believe I am meant to run through mountains, ride across desert dirt roads, immerse myself in the sea, explore less traveled paths, and actively engage in Nature.
Essentialism
To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.”...
Doubling Down In The New Year
The new year is upon us, the last went by quickly. 2018 had a bit of everything we hoped for with a handful of things we could have done without.