North Face 50 Mile Championships

A couple weeks ago I raced the TNF 50 Mile Chapionships in San Fran.  I ran this race back in 2011 coming off a fire season and being layed up with a heavy dose of stitches in the bottom of my foot from the last jump of the season so I was pretty excited to get back to this race again.  While living in Redding, CA and Arcata, CA in 2010-2012 I cut my teeth in the trail running and ultra running realm.  With being so far away from any skiing which was my previous passion, running became my outlet and set forth my path for the years to come.  North Face was the race I was most excited about this season and really had my main focus training throughout the summer.

The Adrenaline Project

A couple weeks out from the North Face 50 Mile my friend Luke Jay had contacted me and asked me if I wanted to join/represent The Adrenaline Project team along with existing team member James Walsh.  I had talked to Luke about the team on a training run earlier during the summer and the concept of having a group of runners/ bikers competeing under a team to generate sponsors and media content sounded like a interesting concept.  I was really excited to join up with them and am really excited to belong to a team of guys/ gals that share the same   passion for the mountains as I do.  Excited to train and compete with them in 2017!

Flagstaff Sky Race 55K

So a little after the fact on this, but I guess better late than never and also have gotten some good time to reflect on the race.  Leading up to Flagstaff I had a really solid consistent training block consisting of a lot of steady state intervals which I really enjoyed.  Something I've come to really enjoy about the workouts that John has been giving me focusing on one system at a time is that you get really tuned in with the system that you are working and the mind gets a really good