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A publication inspired by ultrarunning, fueled by curiosity and appreciation of the wisdom, folly, and quirkiness of what some would call “I don’t even like to drive that far.”

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He Runs, She’s a Runner

In this pursuit, as in many others, doing and being are qualitatively different. And for the doing to evolve into being, it matters greatly *how* the doing is done.

The Way of Pain

What is pain, when is it not, and what does the way we hurt say about the way we endure?

Great Expectations

A journey of a hundred miles is only a single step

Carpe-ing a Couple of Diems [Full]

My first 100-mile race

Carpe-ing a Couple of Diems: Part Ⅴ

The finish

Carpe-ing a Couple of Diems: Part Ⅳ

What got me here won’t get me there

Carpe-ing a Couple of Diems: Part Ⅲ

The voices in the water are meant for me alone

Carpe-ing a Couple of Diems: Part Ⅱ

Now I’m home, now I’m a visitor

Carpe-ing a Couple of Diems: Part Ⅰ

That’s not running in the mountains, that’s living in the mountains

Fears of Various Shapes and No Shape

And a word on overcoming them