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The Pinhoti 100 Article that Ultrarunning Magazine edited to nothing...
The Pinhoti 100 Article that Ultrarunning Magazine edited to nothing…
I wrote what I considered my best race article when I covered Pinhoti 100 last November. I submitted it to Ultrarunning Magazine, who, so they could publish another person’s Pinhoti Race report, cut mine to the bone. What remains embarrasses me.
Here is the full thing, for which I am quite proud, even if it never sees the light of day.
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In the early morning of Sunday November 5 a…
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I’ve written about Ruffner Mountain before. You can read those pieces below. Here now are a few images form this year’s Crusher Ridge 42K at that beautiful mountain in Birmingham
Ruffner Mountain Trail Running Festival
Crusher Ridge 42K Race report
Ruffner Mountain is all kinds of beauty for trail runners.
One of the crushers.
Looking down in to the quarry Crusher Ridge 42K
The overlook. You can see Birmingham in the distance
Sitting down after one of the hardest trail races in the state
My bib. Marked at checkpoints
Look like an elderly man. But I am about to jump for a finish line photo.
Crusher Ridge 42K: a few pics I've written about Ruffner Mountain before. You can read those pieces below. Here now are a few images form this year's Crusher Ridge 42K at that beautiful mountain in Birmingham Ruffner Mountain Trail Running Festival Crusher Ridge 42K Race report
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I planned to pace a friend at Pinhoti 100 earlier this month. But an unseasonably warm November day wrought havoc on the course, and many racers, including y friend, missed cutoffs. So I hung around and volunteered a bit and swept a couple of sections of the course. Here are a few images.
Drop bags all nice and sorted. Waiting for runners. Pinhoti 100
Adam’s Gap Aid Station. Mile 55 Pinhoti 100
Too afraid to ask. Mile 55. Pinhoti 100 Adams Gap
Mile 80 Pinhoti 100. The quiet acceptance of the end of his race.
The moon hangs on
Dawn Breaks at Pinhoti 100
A course sweeper takes a selfie. film at 11
Dehydrated and out of it. Barely able to walk the .10 of a mile to the aid station where he’l be told his race is over. The 100 mile race is a cruel mistress
Early one fall morning along the Pinhoti. stunning
Scenes from Pinhoti 100 I planned to pace a friend at Pinhoti 100 earlier this month. But an unseasonably warm November day wrought havoc on the course, and many racers, including y friend, missed cutoffs.
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Product Review: Mizuno Wave Rider 20
Product Review: Mizuno Wave Rider 20 @mizunorunning
I’ve always had an on-again-off-again relationship with Mizuno. I ran my first marathon in a pair of Renegade 4 (2009).
Ran my first marathon in these. The Renegade 4
Five years later I went Mizuno-crazy looking for a fresh running start after bilateral inguinal hernia repair. I fell in love with the Precision 13. They had a Robin’s egg blue and Canary color way that I love to this day. (I…
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Product Review: Brooks Cascadia Shell
Product Review: Brooks Cascadia Shell
It’s an endless pursuit for the runner. A search that never seems to end. Like the peak of an endless climb, the search for a rain shell that repeals the rain, weighs little, and doesn’t produce sauna conditions when worn seems endless. Oh, and doesn’t cost 200 dollars.
Does such a jacket exist? Like the mysterious yeti, can the lightweight, affordable rainshell be located by the…
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Brooks Neuro Review: Not Your Father's Brooks
Brooks Neuro Review: Not Your Father’s Brooks
I can’t remember when Brooks came out with an entirely new shoe model since before the Pure Project series. That’s the kind of cool thing about Brooks, they don’t go chasing the newest fad just because everyone else is doing it. Case in point: Brooks hasn’t yet joined the max cushion movement, especially in trail shoes. Here is the Cascade, they tell you, it will get you there. We worked long…
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"Don't let me not savor these moments:" Lake Martin 100
Lake Martin 100 Race Report #trailrunning #100miler #trailandultra #runchat
Precious
“If something is easy how much reward is there?” –David Horton, Barkleys Finisher
“You can’t really tell how much you can do until you try to do something that’s more.” –Lazarus Lake, Barkleys Founder
“I will never ever do a 100 mile race. Nothing will change my mind.”– Gordon Harvey (July 2010)
Loads of gear and planning go into a 100
When I first began running, I was sure that I…
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Reclaiming an Analog Life
Reclaiming an Analog Life #running #runchat #fieldnotes
There was a period about two years ago, when iPad was booming and everyone had to have one, where I decided I’d go all in on the digital lifestyle. I’d leave pen and paper behind and have all my notes and information at my fingertips. That worked for a while, but I soon found that my analog-trained mind needed to feel the paper and pencil. And as much as wanted to preserve and have available…
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You're No Spring Chicken
You're No Spring Chicken #trailrunning #riodellago #westernstates
“Your destination is on the right.”
No, its not, Google Maps, there is no destination on my right. Only a field, I think. I can’t see farther than 15 feet outside the car because I’m atop some random California mountain at 11 o’clock on a Saturday night. I forgot my wallet. I’m driving the car of someone I met only an hour ago. I’m from Alabama. I have a slight southern accent. There’s no…
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Shoe Review: New Balance NB 980 Trail
Shoe Review: NB980 Trail Fresh Foam #trailrunning @newbalance
The New Balance 980 Trail
Yes, I know NB has released an update to this shoe (the Hierro), and any good reviewer wouldn’t publish a review of an “outdated” shoe. But I love this trail shoe. The love needs to be shared
When I first started running trails, and given that I was a Brooks man through and through, I did what any Brooks man would do and order a pair of Cascadia (version 7).
You never…
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Shoe review: Brooks Ghost 8
Shoe Review: Brooks Ghost 8 #running @brooksrunning
This is one of several reviews that I have been meaning to write since this summer. It has been a crazy busy summer and fall for me and I’ve also published an academic book (my day job is professor of history and department chair) and reading galley proofs, securing photo rights, and taking care of final edits took priority.
As always I have a Facebook page, please “like” it if you don’t mind.
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18 Miles along the Pinhoti Trail
18 Miles along the Pinhoti #pinhoti100 #trailrunning @buffusa
I met some trail friends for a run along the Pinhoti Trail this morning. Some were having their final long run before the Pinhoti 100 in two weeks. Others, like me, were in the build phases for races a little further down the calendar.
This is a section of the Pinhoti that I’d never run before. If you are Pinhoti 100 runner, you will recognize this section as it extends from Porter’s Gap to…
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Crusher Ridge 42K: The Clubber Lang of Trail Races
Crusher Ridge 42K: The Clubber Lang of Trail Races
I tell myself I’m done. I am convinced I’ll never return to this race. I’ll volunteer next year, I tell myself. But then I find myself signing up once more. Sometimes I’m a stupid man.
For the second time in two weeks, and for the second year in a row, I headed out to Ruffner Mountain to run Cri=usher Rige 42K. I had just been the for Day 1 of the Birmingham Stage Race, so I knew what was…
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Now Departing Funk City, USA
"Now Departing Funk City, USA" #trailrunning #dirtbagrunners #running
The last 6 months have been hard for me as a runner. I DNFd my March 50 miler attempt because I was undertrained on trails and just overheated and lacking mental toughness. I struggled with summer running as it really hammered me on longer runs, and shorter ones, too. I put on 7 pounds between April and September because I couldn’t say no to chips and salsa, and sugar of all kinds. And I had…
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Product review: Dynamic+ NoShow Compression socks
Product review: Dynamic+ NoShow Compression socks
A couple of months ago CEP asked me if I’d like to sample a pair of their compression socks. Not the full-length socks, mind you, but those made just for feet. Yes, just for feet. Too many runners, asserts CEP, runners assume that compression is primarily for the calves. Sure CEP sells those, too, but they’re trying get the message to runners that it’s not just the calves that need compression…
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