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 week... Text from Jason: "Free Sat? »

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/] at all. I ran this race »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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/ »

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. The pace »

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/overview] to prove it! »

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 and banging »

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 »