Endurance, leadership, and building things.
DNF at Les Chapieux, km 52. Ten days before the start an ultrasound told me I would not be running UTMB at all. The 44 km I did get were the fastest of my life — and here is the honest accounting of whether it was worth starting.
This summer, I had two of the hardest and most humbling experiences of my life: Lavaredo 120K and UTMB.Both races exposed me in ways I didn’t fully expect. They stripped away the noise, the ego, an...
I went to Chamonix to answer a simple question: what is my limit? In my head, that limit looked a lot like Courtney Dauwalter’s pain cave—a place you enter on purpose, and survive. What I learned w...
On June 27th at 10 p.m. in Cortina, I arrived at the starting line and stood for an hour with a couple of thousand other runners waiting for the gun. Most were chatting (the elites were sitting), b...
2 weeks ago I attempted to run my first ultramarathon @ the Bear Chase Race Series in Lakewood, Colorado. One of my colleagues, Davis Cutter, had challenged me to run an ultramarathon 4 m...
If you’re starting a business, I recommend you check in with the bigger picture as often as you can. When you live and breathe the details of your business on a minute-by-minute basis, you can quic...
This last weekend I tried to run a marathon without having run more than a 10 mile long run in over a year and more than 20 total miles in any 7 days. At mile 25, I was pulled off the course and un...