Posts, notes, and longer-form writing.
Mileage: 30 miles with 9000 feet of elevation
As described in my Cascade Crest Lottery post, I've refocused my training on a 100 mile goal in mid-July. As part of that goal, I need to do a 50 mile training run with 6500 feet of gain before June 14th to prove I won't die out there.
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Late last year, I signed up for the Cascade Crest 100 lottery. I've wanted to run a 100 mile race for a few years now, but I've never gotten super serious about pushing my training past 50km. This year, my primary goal is to complete the PCT Section J...
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Mileage: 27 with 8500′ of elevation gain
This morning, I wanted to get breakfast at the cafe as early as possible and then get out of town as quickly as I could. I have nothing against Seiad Valley, but I wanted to get the massive climb out of the way before it got too hot. As such, I had pack...
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Mileage: 26 into Seiad Valley
There’s something about Sundays that turns off any productive and motivated parts of my brain and turns me into mush. Last week, I slept until noon on Sunday. This week, it was only 8AM, but by the time I woke up, the dozen or so people I had camped wit...
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Mileage: 29 out of Etna
I woke up early this morning because I had signed up for the 9AM shuttle and I wanted breakfast first. That meant only 5.5 hours of sleep since I stayed up so late, but that’s fine as long as I leave town full. 😋 I rode a much nicer bike over to Bob’s ...
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Mileage: 28 into Etna for the night (mile 1597)
As I described yesterday, the camp spot I woke up in this morning was absolutely dreadful. I could not, for the life of me, stay up where I was supposed to be sleeping. Instead, I was sliding further and further down towards the foot of the tent, tangle...
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Mileage: 42
Most nights before I go to sleep, I check the potential mileage and elevation for the next day. Last night, I saw an opportunity. Today was going to be relatively flat, so I could probably so a fairly high-mileage (upper 30s) day pretty easily. Intriguing…
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Mileage: 28
I woke up fairly early (6AM) in the Mt. Shasta KOA and was surprised to see most of my neighbors already getting up and leaving. I thought *hikers* were the early birds! I ate a few delicious muffins that my mom sent me (thanks, ma!) and packed up my st...
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Mileage: 19 to town, then 2 extra to Castella
Today’s entire purpose was to pick up a package full of goodies that my mother had sent to Castella. I needed to pick up a little food as well, so the gas station package pickup/resupply was my only plan for the day. Maybe I would sleep in Castella at t...
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Mileage: 34
I woke up in my beautiful streamside campsite and immediately noticed that something was different. The trees were still there, can’t be that… the stream was still flowing, it isn’t that… my body was still sore all over, that’s not it… what was it!? THE...
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