Entries Tagged as ‘Trail Running’

June 24, 2009

introducing Greg Kolodziejzyk

Greg is a fast twitch, anaerobic gymnast … who somehow evolved to become an endurance sport Adventure athlete.
Just like many of us on this team.
Greg has several endurance sport websites. A good start is …

Adventures of Greg
You’ll see he has done many Ironman events, including Coeur d’Alene. Has world records for human powered [...]

June 22, 2009

toughest 100mi race in the world?

Have you heard of The Barkley Marathons?
… The Barkley Marathons is actually two races run on the same course, a 100 Mile Run and a 60 Mile Fun Run. It is held annually in Frozen Head State Park near Wartburg, Tennessee sometime in late March or early April.
The course itself, which has changed distance, [...]

April 22, 2009

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 [...]

April 1, 2009

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 [...]

March 15, 2009

One Good Day!

Hi, all!
El Capitan back with you, hoping that you’re all getting in some good training! Spring is right around the corner I think, despite what the weather here at FARTquarters is.
Here’s a correction on our last post, BTW: Andy wanted me to mention that we also did a 38 mile bike ride the day before we [...]

March 5, 2009

Oh, where oh where have we been?

Hi, Everyone!
I am SO sorry for taking so long in between posts… this past month has been on of the busiest on record, with Great West Gymfest and getting everything in gear for Adventure Sports Week 2009, which is now onlu 91 days away!! Yikes!
First off, just to ease Thomas’ concern, my training has seldom [...]

January 20, 2009

Pleasantly Lost…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at “Adventure Sports Week Central!
Note the new name… we put in a bid for “AdventureWeek.com,” and found out that for only $15,000 it could be ours… thus, after several milliseconds of thoughtful deliberation, we decided that another choice would have to do for our new, updated website.
The [...]

December 28, 2008

Great Snow Training to “welcome” Winter…

Hi ho!
December 27th… after a marvelous fall, it’s been snowing for 10 straight days… 5 feet… help! Glub, glub… record 24 hour snowfall, record 5 day… send St. Bernard!
Yup. After no snow until basically 10 days ago, I’m rapidly running out of room to pile the snow. At least until today, it had been cold [...]

December 5, 2008

Talking to the Legends about Adventure Week 2009!

For someone who is a “people person,” today was a pretty good day from the Adventure Celebrity point of view…
As you probably know, we have been working pretty hard on getting Adventure Week 2009 set up, and a major part of that is getting some of the best teams and racers in the world to [...]

December 5, 2008

Adventure Week 2009 has a venue!

Well, unofficially, we’ve had a venue for a while, but as of yesterday, it’s official! We had a 4 hour meeting with Ranger Randall, the head of Farragut State Park, just north of Coeur d’Alene, and went over the entire June 5 – 14 Adventure Week 2009 schedule, event by event, and have almost all the [...]