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Elk/Beaver Lakes – T-minus 6 days
With only 6 days left until Elk/Beaver Lakes ultra, I thought it was perhaps time to give a little update. How has training been going? Well, a couple months ago I was really struggling with...
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Elk/Beaver 100k Race Report
Done like dinner. So the race is over, and I can easily say this was the hardest run of my life. I haven’t run that many races, I guess, so that’s not a very dramatic claim, but this was intense. I...
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Fat Dog 120 Recon, Leg 1: Cathedral
With the big race coming up fairly soon, I decided I need to put in some time on the course. Part of me likes the unknown and the excitement of adventure, and part of me likes to not get lost during...
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Fat Dog 120 Recon, Leg 2: Trapper
Woke up feeling like dogshit after a crappy sleep in the Ranger (although, could certainly have been worse. I just need a) Pillow, b) summer sleeping bag.) Drove for what felt like forever along this...
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Fat Dog 120 Recon, Leg 3: Bonnevier
So after spending the night in a nice hotel room in Princeton (so much better than the truck! Unfortunately.) I woke up and headed South, back towards Manning Park. Bonnevier Trail starts at the very...
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Fat Dog 120 Recon: Cayuse to Sumallo
After my prior big weekend recon in Manning (see parts one, two and three) I was back in Vancouver for a couple days only before heading right back to the park for more training. In order to get into...
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Fat Dog 120 Recon: Release the Kraken!
After doing my trail volunteer work, which I shall not blog about, though it was enjoyable enough, for hot sweaty trail work, I broke and rented a hotel room in the Manning Park Lodge. “The cheapest...
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The Ponderous Canine
As I sit to type this, the bell hath tolled on the 20th hour, August 13th, 2014. The Fat Dog 120 starts at 10:00 AM on Friday the 15th, meaning there are only 36 hours to go. The wait has been long....
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2014 Fat Dog 120 Race Report
Pre-Race The race started with 2 frantic days of organizing, rushing, packing, airport pickups, etc. I squeezed one little run in, and managed to get some reasonable sleep, but it was pretty hectic. I...
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Lessons Learned at Fat Dog
Despite my unbelievable finishing placement (2nd?!) and very good time (achieved my “A” goal?), I actually felt like I didn’t have a very good run. (See my race report here.) I know that seems silly,...
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Badwater Daylight Hours
I was excited to discover that Badwater, according to their Facebook page, had returned to the original course for 2015! I had thought that would never happen, and my disappointment was significant...
View ArticleExcel 2010 Color Codes
Did you ever want to generate an Excel spreadsheet (using Openpyxl, for example) but wasn’t sure how to reproduce those nice new colors? Well wonder no more. Here are the hex codes for the 70 default...
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Maui 2015, Day 1
Decided to fly out to Maui for a week vacation, on account of the siblings wanting to meet up for a post-Christmas sort of get-together. It makes a hell of a lot more sense to meet here each year than...
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Fat Dog 120 2015 – A River Runs Through It
I was asked by my buddy Matt Hall to pace for him at Fat Dog 120 this year. Having completed the race last year (race report \ lessons learned) I felt like I was in a pretty good spot to crew and/or...
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#Streaklife
In programming, there are a few articles that have gone around where someone talks about “writing code every day for 100 days”. The most popular code sharing website, called Github, famously shows you...
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Orcas 100 2016 Race Report
First Lap The race started at 8 AM. All the runners were milling around the start line, as the clock slowly counted down. No one wanted to be that guy at the front of the pack, so there was about 10...
View Article2017 Moab 240 Race Report
Chapter 1. Business As Usual A fire burned in a nearby campsite. How I longed to be wrapped in a cozy blanket, sipping life-giving Nuun, and warming my cold hands by the fire! Instead, I was here—lined...
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