Month: August 2017
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Never let a taper get in the way of a good adventure
Well, I guess I went and jacked up my ankle during the Ouray 100. I’m self diagnosing it as anterior ankle impingement and/or a stress fracture in my lower shin. Either way, I haven’t walked more than a mile for two weeks. But at least I can ride dirt roads? Yay bikes! Still, it sucks.…
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Mountain biking, mountain running, and mountain adventure FOMO
Earlier this year I was hanging out with Justin Simoni, aka The Long Ranger (if you haven’t been following his Highest Hundred attempt here, you should. He’s 36 peaks into his self-powered, self-supported attempt to ride to and climb the highest 100 peaks in Colorado. It’s the most bad-ass thing going on these days, IMHO.),…
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Playing in the Mountains
Well, I guess I went ahead and did the Ouray 100 this past weekend. And I’m sort of sitting here wondering where the heck the fitness and motivation came from to pull off 44 hours of wandering through the San Juans, because the last time I checked this blog, I was firmly on the ‘I’m…