Tahoe 200 2018 Race Report, Part 2

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 Aid Station »

IMTUF 100 2016 Race Report

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 it difficult to tell »

Rainier Infinity Loop 2018 Attempt

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 »

Creative Fear at Red Rocks

I write software for fun and profit, and writing great software - like all creative work - requires long stretches of deep thought. I don't know where creative insights come from, but two things are clear to me about how to find them: 1. You can study and obsess over »

Goals for the Truly Insane

I want to expand on the last piece I wrote on courage and goals [http://www.samritchie.io/on-courage-and-goals/], and talk about some of the traps that endurance racing can set for athletes looking to push their limits. That piece makes the case that aggressive goals are important because they »

On Courage and Goals

This post is about courage and failure, and how to think about success or failure when the objective is difficult. Aaron Steele's 2014 Leadville 100 race report [https://medium.com/@eightysteele/leadville-100-6f1cfdc47fa#.317q8inpt] is one of the more honest and inspiring race reports I've read. Leadville [https://en.wikipedia.org/ »

Wyoming Rando Roundup, Pt 2

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 that I'd be hucking »

Wyoming Rando Roundup, Pt 1

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://samritchie.io/racing] a »

5 Books for Endurance Addicts

This post is about some of the books related to endurance training and sports that have inspired me over the last couple of years. Training for endurance events changes you. At the beginning of a season, on my first long run, ten minutes in I feel anxiety creep in. How »

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