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Trail of the Week: Camp Alexander
I’ve been really busy since starting my internship in May at the VA Eastern Kansas Health System. Tons of commuting between KC, Leavenworth and Topeka has made time more precious. Of course, when I’m...
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Rock the Night Away Trail ½ Marathon: June 24th, 2011
A couple of years ago, Willie Lambert, then owner of Great Plains Running Company, directed the Rock Creek Trail Runs, a series of races between May and October just east of Topeka Kansas at Lake...
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Psycho Psummer Run Toto Run 50K: ...its how you finish.
Cameron Taylor & I Pre-Race.It’s been a busy summer and I’ve been neglecting the blog. The internship has just a couple more weeks to go and then it’s off to Colorado’s Front Range for some...
View ArticleColeen’s Sweaty Ass Trail Run
Back in January, I ran in Coleen’s Frozen Fat Ass Trail run. In fact, my first post for this blog was the lengthy race report. In case you missed that post, a “Fat Ass” run is a trail run with little...
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Trail of the Week: Mount Galbraith & the Cedar Gulch Trail
Well, I’m back at school in Kansas City after wrapping the summer with a trip to Colorado’s Front Range. Instead of writing a lengthy trip report, I’ll just use several blog posts to touch on the...
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2011 Fall Fell Trail Race
I ran in the 2011 Fall Fell Trail Race at Kill Creek on Sunday. Kill Creek is a challenging set of trails located near De Soto, Ks. Roughly 17 miles of hiking, mountain-biking, and horse trails are...
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Better late than never: Gray’s & Torrey’s Peak back in August
Ok, so I’ve been pretty busy and just never got around to posting more from the Colorado trip. (sigh) The life of a graduate student…besides, I’d rather trail run than write about trail running. So,...
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Lake Perry Rocks! 50K Trail Ultra: A better-late-than-never race report
Back on October 22nd I ran in the Lake Perry Rocks! 50k but have been way too busy since to get around to writing a race report. Someday I’m gonna write a race report the very next day after a race...
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10th Annual Alternate Chili Run: Wyandotte County Lake, Ks.
After the Lake Perry 50k, I decided to lay low through November in an effort to get healthy. I only ran a total of 180 miles in the month of Samhain. It was also the first month of the year that I...
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2012 Psycho Wyco Run Toto Run 50k Trail Race: Another year, Another Test
No matter what other races I run, climbs I do, or adventures that I go on; there’s one race that keeps calling me back. My first race of any distance back in 2007, the Psycho Wyco Run Toto Run 50k...
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2012 Free State Trail Run 100k Trail Race
The best laid plans…Wow, talk about neglect. Social services needs to take this blog away from me and find it a good loving home. I’ve probably been abandoned by my readers and dropped by my sponsors....
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2012 Psycho Psummer Trail Run & Coleen’s Sweaty Ass Run:
Blood, Sweat, and (Finding New) GearsI hate running in the heat. Okay, hate IS a strong word. Through five years of serious Ultra and trail racing, a trend was starting to form. Race well in the cold...
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A Couple Thoughts on Preparation...(or, see what happens when I’m thinking instead of running) So here we are. The start of the Hawk Hundred 100 mile Trail Race is about 50 hours away. I guess the...
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Success!
WOW, did this weekend really happen? Finished the Hawk 100 mile race in 29:30 (ninth place). Huge thanks to Co-Race Directors Danny Miller & Coleen Shaw-Voeks and all of the Hawk Hundred volunteers...
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The Hawk Hundred: Something Epic This Way Comes
I’ve been deliberately putting this off. Writing a race report for the Hawk 100 just seemed like too big of a task. In my own mind, the Hawk wasn’t just one race over one weekend; it was the summit of...
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2013 Psycho Wyco Run Toto Run 50k Trail Race: Here We Go Again
At first glance, there are two things that set the Psycho Wyco Run Toto Run 50k Trail race apart; terrain and weather. Remember,Kansas is flat. How then, does a Kansas 50k course have an elevation...
View ArticleForgotten Blogs & Broken Treadmills:
Wow, I still have an ultra-running blog. I’m surprised blogger hasn’t yanked it yet as part of some cleaning-up of non-active sites. Apparently, you can also still find it on trailrunningsoul.com. Of...
View ArticleCFC C2C (campus to campus) 100k Ultra run
I have the proud distinction of serving this year as the CFC coordinator for the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System. The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is a government-authorized form of...
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It's almost time to run across Eastern Kansas. I'm excited and already feeling my usual pre-race restlessness. No matter what happens, I want to say thanks in advance to everyone involved in this...
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CFC C2C 100K Ultra: Gravel Roads and Rolling Hills, Running Across Eastern...
What a day that was back on November 6th! I finally have some pictures ready for the blog. Better late than never! Thanks to all who supported the CFC. VA Eastern Kansas finished the Combined Federal...
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