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 [...]

More Moab Adrenaline…

Ooops, forgot to mention that the next morning after the Moab Xstream race, I felt the urge to get another adrenaline fix, so I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane for my first skydive!! Woo woo! There’s even video to prove it (but it’ll cost you about 89.00 bucks).

Solo FART places at MOAB XSTREAM

Hello All!
So I have started out the FART season with a bang for us, and the bar is set! I represented the FARTs as a solo racer this past weekend in the Adventure Xstream 12hour race in Moab, UT. Packing and arranging for a fly-in race is quite an undertaking, now I know what Andy [...]

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 [...]

How a photo, a mirror, some friends and a vacation rental can change your life.

Imagine… Hawaii for our anniversary getaway, in a beautiful rental home… Our business was successful(ish), and we were pretty fit(ish), dazzling examples of humanity… life was good!
 
Then, on Sunday, reality came calling.
 
First, my beautiful wife photographed me on the beach. I looked, I dropped the camera in horror. No way did I look that bad! [...]

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 [...]

Happy Holidays to all of you!

Ho, ho, ho…
Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope that you all had a peaceful, happy and healthy Christmas and DBD day… (Dave’s Birthday Day). Yes, there’s nothing like having your birthday on December 26 when you’re a kid, but I must say, Lisa makes a marvelous effort to make my birthday special, and with all of [...]

Ian Adamson to join Team FART

… well.
At least he’s coming to our BIG EVENT in Idaho in June.
Ian Adamson, Adventure Racing’s Most successful-ever racer, will participate at Adventure Week 2009!
Press Release #2 is posted on that site too. Download it to your computer.

“It will take courage to break the record…” – Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe was one of my idols growing up as a runner. I always wanted to be a great middle distance runner, and except for the small lack of size, aerobic capacity, talent, opportunity and basic natural ability, I was right there…
Sebastian Coe was the great white middle distance runner, Olympic champion, world record holder, and [...]

Adventure Week is a go!

The weeks of planning, hard work, meetings, emails and phone calls have paid off, and we’ve got ourselves a race!
Adventure Week 2009, June 5 – 14, 2009 at Farragut State Park in North Idaho will have 16 races, clinics, and even a couple of parties thrown in for fun!
We’ll be hosting FOUR adventure races; the [...]