This ride felt very similar to the last day of my first cross country cycling trip 10 years ago. That 40 day trip ended with an all night ride through the rain from some small city in Massachusetts to Bar Harbor about 280 miles away. I had my heart set on finishing in Bar Harbor…
Race Report: Lent & Westchester 50K Run Success!!! Westchester, CA The last 45 days I’ve been processing through the season of Lent which transitions tomorrow with Easter Sunday. This season has been very different than every other year I’ve ever experienced in my life and likely one of the largest transitions we’ve gone through in…
Race Report: Westchester 50k run (25k – 5k jog, 10k run, 10k walk) Westchester, CA Today was one of those rare occasions where I started out with a plan to head out on an ultra-event and situations turned and I ended up decided on a much shorter day… This year I’m planning on completing 20…
Race Report: Joshua Tree Double Century Joshua Tree, CA The race that almost didn’t even begin for me. Thankfully for endurance athletes we have a temporary window where our events are still taking place because they are under 250 people that participate, they are inherently isolating and in general many athletes don’t mind having minimal…
Race Report: Southern Inyo Double Double Day #2 (Death Valley) Ridgecrest, CA Where do you go to find men and women of legend that can inspire the world? I thought about this as I was riding through the barren landscape on the way out to Death Valley National Park. I could feel my skin tingle…
Race Report: Inyo Double Double Day #1 (Randsburg / Olancha Loop) Ridgecrest, CA The realization hit me that completing two 200-mile races back-to-back in one weekend is something that I should take seriously. Before this, my approach has been loading my stuff up in the middle of the night, driving to the race start and…
Race Report: Camino Real Double Irvine California |Planet Ultra In 2016 as I was training for Race Across America, I participated in the Camino Real Double. I must have blocked that memory out of my mind because as I got onto the course this weekend, I realized that this particular course was the one I…
Race Report: Sebring 12/24 Sebring Florida |Rotary Club of Highlands Country The spirit of competition and comradery flowed through the racers as almost 150 of us lined up at the start line, 40 of those being recumbent riders on the Sebring raceway in Florida on Saturday morning. Each of us preparing to execute our own…
As you might notice this is technically not an ultra (nowhere even close to an ultra, but still worth doing a quick write up about). This was my fourth experience running with a group of runners known as the “Salmon” that as you can see in the photo above dress up in salmon outfits and…
As we all lined up for the start of the La Cuesta run this past Saturday morning at 8:00am race director Luis Escobar with his usual keen sense of humor and irony announces, “If you all don’t like hills or cows… you’re going to have a really tough day ahead of you”. The La Cuesta…
One of the mentors and the race directors that I look up to the most is Luis Escobar. He has a community engagement, empowerment, and joyful spirit that is tough not to be drawn to and make you want to be a part of his events. The Red Rock 50 mile race this past weekend…
Starting his training for Uberman, the world’s toughest endurance race, Rob DeCou competes in the 24 Hour World Time Trial Championships in Borrego Springs, CA with very little preparation. In 2016 Rob rode 3000 miles across country to complete the Race Across America. After that he sold his bikes and focused on endurance running and…