I feel like I'm never going to publish this damned thing... so here it is, in bullet point form. Maybe I'll tidy it up some day. Niwot's Challenge, a very fun race out in South Platte. Jason invited me to this damned thing last »

Well, I can honestly say, now, close to a year after the event, that I don't remember this event in the furious detail that characterizes my usual race reports. How lucky! We're not supposed to talk about the Niwot's Challenge [https://humanpotentialrunning.com/niwots-challenge/ »

Welcome back to my report of the 2018 Tahoe 200. If you haven't read Part 1 [https://www.samritchie.io/tahoe-200-2018-race-report/] and care about background and context, go check it out [https://www.samritchie.io/tahoe-200-2018-race-report/] and come on back. Otherwise enjoy the tale! Table of Contents * Heavenly »

I never suspected that 100 mile races would be a gateway drug for... 200 mile races, but here I am, polishing off my race report for the Tahoe 200. What went wrong in my past? Neglectful parents? A broken home? The answers lie buried somewhere in the following account. First, »

In September of 2017 I raced my first ever mountain bike race - the Vapor Trail 125, the hardest race I could find up in the mountains of Colorado. After four years of 100 mile running races I was well and truly burned out on the idea of spending my »

On June 8th I completed the Texas Water Safari, a 260 mile canoe race down in Texas that runs rivers from San Marcos to the Gulf of Mexico. My 4-man boat (filled by Jason Antin, Andrew Soles and Andrew Stephens) finished early Monday morning after 44 hours and 14 minutes »

In 2016, as part of my years-long quest to make it into the Hardrock 100 [http://hardrock100.com], I signed up to race the IMTUF 100 [http://imtuf100.com/]. IMTUF stands for "Idaho Mountain Trail Ultra Festival", and I'll admit that before the event, I found »

Earlier this month I attempted to complete the biggest endurance adventure of my life: the Rainier Infinity Loop, a project dreamed up by the late Chad Kellogg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Kellogg]. The line physically traces out a rather sloppy infinity sign by traveling over Mount Rainier, the »

It's over! My first 100k is in the bag. I finished the 2015 Miwok 100k [http://miwok100k.com/site/] in 10 hrs and 12 minutes, good enough for 9th overall and 2nd place in my age group to a 23 year old crusher who took the overall win. »

This is my race report from the 2015 Jackson Hole skimo race, the second of two ski mountaineering races I completed this weekend. (Here's my report from yesterday's race at Grand Targhee.) Jackson was going to be bigger and badder than Targhee, no question. I knew »

Wow, I haven't gotten crushed that hard in a race in a long time. Just fully WHIPPED! Jenna and I drove out to Jackson yesterday for the "Wyoming Rando Roundup", my first real weekend of racing since I signed up for all of these races [https: »

Oh my god, I can't believe that this race is over! I'm sitting in my desk chair with a little blanket over me, knees wrecked, feeling like FDR. 26 hours and 15 minutes of mountain running, and a Strava page [http://www.strava.com/activities/190732635/ »

Last weekend, I raced the Leadville Trail 100 [http://www.strava.com/activities/181566715] for the second time. Last year's race was physically brutal; I sat curled up at the 50 mile point, 11 pounds light and unable to keep down fluids, for almost two hours before rallying »

This past weekend I ticked off one of my athletic life goals; the Leadville Trail 100, a brutal 100 mile running race in Colorado. I signed up for Leadville this May after a team injury forced our boat out of the 2013 Texas Water Safari [http://www.texaswatersafari.org/], a »