For some reason I have a huge resistance to running by my house. It might have something to do with the fact I have to drive up and down the 4 mile gravel road a lot, or the chance of running into a mountain lion are pretty high. But when push comes to shove and [...]

As much as I said I didn’t like Hall Ranch, after my first run there in the hot baking sun, it warmed up to me this time (thanks to the shade along the Old St. Vrain roads. I left the parking lot at the Lyons access to the St Vrain River and made my way [...]

This is pretty much my first real trail run. And I say real because it was rocky and hilly. Top that off with hardly having any shade on a hot summer day making it even more not pleasant. There were hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers on the trail as well, but for the most part [...]

I really don’t know how I chose this as my first high elevation run, but it was a pretty good one: Milner Pass up to Fall River Pass. The run started out very challenging because I was mostly running up steps. I thought I was actually not going to make it the first half mile [...]

After running the Chicago marathon I moved to France for 3 years (and of course, blogging about it) and that pretty much consumed my time aside from a short 3-4 mile run here and there. Fast forward to winter 2010 I moved to Colorado (first Boulder and now Lyons) and this summer have finally become [...]

Done at last! Originally uploaded by zedwards. I think I was one of the few people who was smiling the whole way. It was pretty amazing, albeit challenging. At about 16 miles, all I felt were stumps as my legs. At the end, it was just freezing cold…about 42 degrees F at the warmest. I [...]

Me at mile 8 in boystown Originally uploaded by zedwards. So this is it…I finished the marathon. I have to say that it wasn’t that bad. I had a great pace group which got us a long way. I finished my time at 4:49…just shy of the number one person who finished at 2:07. There’s [...]

This morning I woke up to the sound of rain outside; I have always dreaded the day I would have to run in the rain. So far I’ve been lucky to have had perfect weather all summer. But not today. Once I got moving out on my bike to go to the starting point with [...]

I have not been running for the past couple weeks because I had another minor foot injury (on the other foot) so I kept off it for a week. Then, I got strep so that kept me out of the loop for even more time. I am a bit worried the upcoming 23 miles, but [...]

Well, I just finished our 20 mile run this am, which we did in just under 4 hours. For the 20, 23 and 26 mile runs, we cut our pace down by 2 minute per mile, so it was kinda strange to go from running 18 in just over 3 to two miles more for [...]