I’ve decided that it MAY be possible to overdo it…

Hi, everyone!!
I hope everyone is enjoying the fact that Spring has finally (cross your fingers!) sprung, and is getting in some good training… we certainly have over the past 10 days or so!
Backing up a week and a half to Friday April 10, I was out with Keith doing some training… first, a bit of [...]

A great training weekend!

Well, my post is going to be upstaged a bit, since Jeni’s race certainly takes precedence, but a week earlier, we got together for one of our best training day(s) we’ve had in a while…
Friday morning, J and I left for the drive to Missoula, complete with inflatable kayak in the back of her baby [...]

7-12 days of 18hrs paddling

The Adventure Blog linked to a new long distance river race.
I’ve always wanted to do the comparatively easy Whitehorse to Dawson “float”.
Do you really want to do this? Whitehorse to the Alaska Pipeline/Dalton Highway
1000 Miles / 1600 Km
7 to 12 days of 18 hours solid paddling
Yukon1000.com
At least one member from each team must [...]

July 4th practice race

Dave mocked up a 9hr race.
His team, as I recall, quit after about 5.5hrs. Here are the winners:

This despite Morgen taking the big DUMP while being short-roped on the kayak section.

more FART photos on Flickr

training like an Ironman in Hawaii

I have only had about 4 “good” runs over the past 4 months. Today was one of them.
Cruising about 80min (with stops at the playground for conditioning) and it seemed effortless. (No pack, flat trail.) Seemed I could continue at that pace for another 60min or more. Easy.
Perhaps my week of trail running, hiking [...]

exploring coastal Patagonia

If you think Big Blue sounds tough, scroll down through the photos on the adventure blog linked from my best hike site:
Cristian Donoso, a Chilean lawyer, has been exploring the remote western coast of Patagonia for over a decade. He won a 2006 ROLEX associate Laureate award.
His latest expedition is a 5 months journey, 1250 [...]