The Long and Winding Trail

I've gotten hooked on these treadmill ultras and returned to the Dreadmill 48 Hour Endurance Challenge virtual race for the third strai...

One FLRC Challenge course that's kind of an outlier is the Sweet 1600 — 1600 meters (rounded to one mile) on any track with a verified ...

This song largely wrote itself yesterday while I plodded through the North Country Half. I hiked a Sweetgum just before sunset today to end ...

August 31st, 2025. I had a day to myself today while Hayley visited her family in Syracuse with the kids. Labor Day holiday tomorrow, not ma...

Fathers Day 2025. My wife and kids rewarded me with plenty of running time so I decided to take care of the FLRC Challenge Tough Tarmac 50k ...

Another year, another season of churning out miles on each of the ten FLRC Challenge courses. What is the FLRC Challenge? I've written a...

Satan’s Sidewalk 66.6-Hour — the hellish big brother to the Dreadmill 48-Hour. The event is a fixed-time virtual race where runners tick off...

Lindsay-Parsons I’d made very tentative plans to have a July 4th go at the Tough Trail Challenge. My body felt pretty awful running a Lakef...

​I’ve run numerous ultras over the past 10 years, but nothing quite like the Dreadmill 48 Hour Endurance Challenge. Yep, it’s exactly what i...

Just like last year, the decision to start the run at night was last minute. This way if I had to be home at 2:30 p.m. to watch the kids for...

When I think of northern New Jersey three things come to mind—Springsteen, Sopranos, and a handful of mediocre sports franchises. After slid...

The FLRC Challenge was such a success in 2021 that the Finger Lakes Runners Club decided to bring it back in '22 with a brand new set of...

I'd originally hoped to give the 100K Ultra Challenge a second attempt on December 21st, the Winter Solstice. My first run was on the S...

It's been more than six months since the 2021 Cayuga Trails  ultramarathon and I'm finally getting around to writing something about...

This was only my second time running a fixed time race and the first that wasn't on snowy trails . I jumped into the MFAMTL 6-Hour last...

A few days ago I had the pleasure of talking to Scott Kummer over the phone to record episode #147 of the Ten Junk Miles podcast Meet the N...

“And I feel so much depends on the weather.” - Stone Temple Pilots, “Plush” July 4th weekend can only mean one thing for Upstate New York tr...

The Hyner Trail Challenge is aptly described as a northeast "classic" race. The event has been around since 2009 and annually dra...

Late last year when in-person races were still in flux due to COVID-19, the Finger Lakes Runners Club put together a unique virtual race se...

I had a great time as a guest on episode 100 of my friend Chris O’Brien’s podcast Running Inside Out . On the episode we discuss ultramarath...