It’s been a heck of a journey!

Post run meal:

Trail running nutrition for the day

More climbing than trail running .—Mt. Missouri east ridge 14,071ft #nolans14

Storms all around me today, so beautiful… happy no lightning.

In many ways summer 14ers haven’t gotten any easier than winter because the objective just got harder. Hoping to be one of the few humans to get sub -60hrs on Nolan’s 14. 90-100 miles much of it cross-country (off trail) connecting & summiting fourteen 14,000 ft peaks through the

14,424ft - Harvard is the 3rd tallest peak in Colorado. Due to its remoteness, it is one of the harder to get to 14,000ft peaks in Colorado. As part of the Mt. Columbia- Mt. Harvard traverse, you have to climb 6,100ft and go 15 miles round trip. As part of Nolan’s 14, it marks

Some more pics form the Columbia /Harvard double

Ode to Mt. Harvard . Drawn by the high calling of Nolan's relentless line, we came—.Your boulder fields stretched vast, ancient bones of the earth, Gaping mouths threatening to swallow the careless whole. There was no gentle passage-only granite chaos,.Maps confirmed what muscle

Nolan’s 14 obsession: connecting all fourteen 14,000 ft peaks in the shortest (fastest) route possible from Shavano to Massive. ~100 miles/44,000ft of climbing and often no trail. So far, @AdamKHolz and I have completed 10/14 with some wild connect-the-dots traverses between the

Nolan’s 14 scouting and found plane parts from a crash in 1956 on Mt. Yale. #nolans14

RT @malachiobrien: TAHOE 200 . -@DestinationTrl @runcandice #tahoe200 is officially underway. I am now glued to my phone for updates. 😂….

1.I’m training to run a 200ish-mile route with 35,000+ ft of climbing. 2.I build for 2–3 weeks, then take a lower volume week. Then build up again for 3 weeks. Some weeks hit 100+ miles with serious vert. 3.Key runs:.• 4x8min threshold hill intervals.• Strides at controlled

21 miles / 6000ft of climbing in the mountains yesterday. These runs are part of my training strategy for a 200-ish mile effort. Here’s what my training is focusing on:

My youngest graduated high school at 16 in December and the ceremony was this month. Excited to see where her passions take her! My older daughter is living in Japan now.

RT @tenjunkmiles: New long run with Candice Burt! Thanks @mounttocoast and @GenUcan !! Have a great long run with us!! .

RT @Bigfoot200: three more weeks to go -

Next up, the @Tahoe200ultra

RT @JonathanShedler: “A basic premise of psychodynamic thinking is that internal object relations etched in neural networks from early chil….

5 weeks to prep for an unsupported FKT attempt or roughly ~170miles! Here’s this week. Getting a good base, then adding more climbing and speed work to fine tune. Thankfully I put in some serious work this winter and spring mountaineering & running HURT 100 so here’s to hoping