Tag: distance running

  • Ultra Marathoning – Trials and Tribulations

    Ultra Marathoning – Trials and Tribulations

    I wake up and roll over. I momentarily wonder why my left achilles is throbbing on every movement, and why my legs want to tell me a story of pain and non-paid overtime. My mouth is dry and my head is taking longer to process anything and everything. Then I remember I ran my most mentally and…

  • Brain v Legs, The Never-ending Battle

    Brain v Legs, The Never-ending Battle

    It was only a week before that I crashed out of the Orcas Island 50km ultra-marathon trail race before I found myself stepping toe to toe with the some of best at the start line of the Vancouver First Half Half-Marathon last weekend. The week before I had thrown myself in for only my second…