#arrowhead135

[outtherenordic]

Some skis getting prepped for a clients Ultra aspirations. Tuscobia 160 & Arrowhead 135. Good luck to the Svenskmann 🇸🇪 who will be piloting them. #tuscobia160 #arrowhead135 #reallygettingOutThere (at Tuscobia, Wisconsin)

[bobbeahenphoto]

something wicked this way comes

[bobbeahenphoto]

Deerboy

[dwrdsndr]

Arrowhead 135: Whoa

It's been 10 months since my last blog post; nearly a year's worth of racing and running I haven't blogged about at all. I stopped recording mileage last June--I've just been running on feel. It works and it doesn't. I'm not competitive, but that was never really the goal of all of this anyway. I run when I'm healthy, and back off when I hurt. Overall, it's worked for me. I really do enjoy this and all of the wonderful people and places it brings me to. 

2013 was a good year. I ran the Goofy Challenge in January in 1:34/3:32 (half/full). In April, I took 4th place in brutal conditions (33% finish rate) at Zumbro 100 with a 28:27, and ran Chippewa 50k with Alicia in 7:16. In May, I ran a 5:30, hitting the wall hard in my first 1-mile race at the TC 1 Mile, then a 5:31 at Spring Superior 50k. In June, I ran a 3:18 at Grandma's Marathon. In July, Alicia and I went west, where I ran Speedgoat 50k in 10:44, more than double Sage Canaday's winning time. We had planned on coming home, but on a whim, stayed west through most of August, running Telluride Mountain Run through lightning and an August snow storm in 11:54, then Leadville 100 the next week in 27:55. I tried to run Superior 100 two weeks later, but DNF'ed at mile 65. I capped off the year with JFK 50 in November at 8:52.  

2014 started early in January with a DNF at mile 67 of HURT and a finish 9 days later at my first and last Arrowhead 135 in 56 hours. I'm not really sure what's next.

[ftwinter]

Raise a mitten and salute everyone who participated in the Arrowhead 135. Awesome in every way.