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17/10/2017

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04/10/2017

My writing career goal is to be able to pen and publish a sentence like this internationally one day:

"More importantly, they got to see tenth-place finisher Jozef Urban’s dick and balls greet the morning sun and jounce vigorously through the last few meters of the race fully exposed to God and everyone."

Fans who attended the Košice Peace Marathon in Slovakia last weekend got to see Kenyan Reuben Kiprop Kerio take home the win. More importantly, they got to see tenth-place finisher Jozef Urban’s dick and balls greet the morning sun and jounce vigorously through the last few meters of the race fully…

18/11/2016

When ultrarunners say it's all mental, we really mean it.

The idea that the brain is the limiting factor for running — perhaps for human performance in general — is a powerful one, backed up by research.

04/10/2016

This is fu***ng incredible. Wow.

Jim Walmsley set new Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim-Rim record on Oct 4, completing the 42-mile round trip in in 5:55:20. He shattered the

29/09/2016

IT'S GOOSEBUMPS WEATHER!

27/09/2016

So much truth in these tips.

The miles are the miles. They don’t get shorter, but if we don’t fixate on them, they pass quicker. Remember that you are never running 100 miles; you are running small, sustainable sections from a…

26/09/2016

Damn fu***ng straight you should train like a girl!

It’s time to take a few tips from women

26/09/2016

Huge thanks to the Mountain Brook Police Department for keeping runners safe this fall and winter with our new bracelet lights! No excuse now to break the law and run like a stealth ninja...

20/09/2016

Fall is here! Unfortunately, the spiders are still here too. And I will scream my head off if I get one on my face.

01/09/2016

This.

This comic was based on this essay from Augusten Burroughs: How to live unhappily ever after. In addition to the essay, I highly recommend reading his books. It's also been described in psychology as flow.

23/08/2016

That time I made a cameo in a Trail and Ultra Running video! On Timp, nonetheless! Craig Lloyd, .

This past week TAUR attacked the mountains with everything we had. The highlight was introducing old friends to new places, showing them things they wouldn't...

22/08/2016

I'll take "What's worse than bleeding through your shorts" for $500, Alex.

French race walker Yohann Diniz is leading today’s 50k, but his competition hasn’t been a, uh, cakewalk? It looks like Diniz either has severe gastrointestinal issues—at times shoving a sponge down his pants to soak up wet f***l matter, and then throwing the sponge off toward the crowd—or stuck a bu...