Michelle Jenneke Loves the 100m Hurdles

Michelle Jenneke absolutely dominated heat 2 of the IAAF World Junior Championship last weekend in Barcelona with her 13.52. The video of her warmup and race performance was quickly forced to be taken down, but has since been put back up in slow motion and set to the...

2012 Olympic Trials and Houston Marathon

This past weekend the Olympic Marathon Trials took place in Houston, Texas. A day later, there followed the Houston Marathon. This also happened to be my birthday weekend, so what better way to celebrate a birthday than to watch some amazing athletes and then run a...

GAC Fat Ass 50k – 2012

This evening I went to write today’s journal entry in my copy of the 2012 Runner’s Almanac and realized that today’s quote was quite appropriate. “Pain Is Temporary. Quitting is Forever.”     –Lance Armstrong I drove down...

New Year’s Day Boston Marathon

For the second year in a row, I brought in the New Year by heading out to Hopkinton at 6:00 a.m. on New Year’s Day. For 8 years now, Gary Allen has been running the Boston Marathon course first thing in the morning come rain, snow or clear skies. For the past...

Stone Cat: Preparing to Run 50 Miles

My first 50 mile race was almost 3 years ago, right after the new year in 2009. It was the Running from an Angel 50 Miler in Henderson, Nevada. In the year leading up to that race, I ran 2614 miles, averaging about 50 miles per week over that year which included a lot...