The value in running 200 miles is different for everyone. I’ve talked about this before and deep down it functions as an opportunity for me to show myself that limits are just a story. An idea we create. An ephemeral, groundless notion that can be shown to be made up, leaving behind an incredible sense of possibility that can be applied to so many other places in life. But how do you keep proving that by doing it again? Haven’t I already proven it once? Well, as Heraclitus mi

These backyard ultras are weird. I feel like maybe we’re only doing it once so we can feel justified in declaring them silly and moving on. So that we are not all the people at my work who say things like “Why would you do that? “, “THAT’S you’re minute per mile pace?”, or “That doesn’t seem that hard - you just walk and eat and sleep.” Ignoring the legit questions from the first two people, I feel like I have to do at least one of the backyard ultras before I can be dismi

Everyone who runs ultras gets this question. Why? Why would you do that? Sometimes it is kind of fun, sometimes it gets tiresome. But...

This section will be a literal literary junk drawer where ramblings go to die, but is still under construction. Will probably be full of...

Weeeeee're baaaaaaack. This is only the second time we have run the same 200 again. And our two Tahoe races were on quite different...

What are pacers for? There is a lot of debate about the role of pacers in ultrarunning. This seems truly unique to ultrarunning - in what other sport do friends get to join in the middle of competition and help? The argument seems to be largely limited to their role within the elite levels of the sport, but I’m not sure the arguments really differ. But let’s start with the elites and go from there. If we’re talking about elite runners, what really is the point of a pacer? I

It is amazing how many different definitions there are for science, considering its enormous position in modern society. And as with...

I think that most philosophical disagreements come from unacknowledged differences in assumptions and definitions. Breadcrumb philosophy...

Editor's note: Took me 6 years to finish this thing and kind of still feel like we should re-write it. But the impact it had is just as...