My hubby participated in his third 100 miler this weekend when he attempted the Vermont 100. While he finished the race last year in less than 23 hours. This year was a reminder that 100 miles is a tough distance. After running the first 88+ miles at a blazing pace, he dropped at mile 95.5, [...]

Sometimes (rarely) I get my way and my hubby posts about his latest adventures on his blog. After more than a month, he finally posted his report about his adventures during the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 miler (MMT100). Feel free to go look at his insights.

A few weekends ago my hubby and I traveled down to Virginia so he could race in the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 miler race. I know this is a late report seeing as the race happened May 15-16th but the entire group of people that run that race was wonderful. The members and volunteers from [...]

From time to time I like to make posts about what my husband is up to. Because some of the stuff he does is really really cool. Like when he ran a 100 miler Ultramarathon, or carried a 52 lb rock at the end of a 53 mile Ultramarathon. He even held the unofficial winter [...]

My husband has an arsenal of running shoes. When I clean the house and put them all in the mudroom, the shoes take up a large portion of a corner of the room. Well on St. Patrick’s day morning I was trying to convince him that he need to wear green. Me: “You should wear [...]

Adam wrote up a report on the Vermont 100 race.  I asked him if he could post it to my blog. But he’s a pretty modest fellow.  So he started his own blog instead. Fine by me. He wrote the report with intention that it could be useful to both newbies to the sport of [...]

Central Vermont in July is truely a beautiful place. The Vermont 100 course goes through hilly grassy horse country. Some of the barns are more beautiful than most homes. The hills and mountains make for amazing views. Even something as simple as a wooden fence can draw your eyes. Most beautiful is how green everything [...]

When Adam paced for Nate last year I didn’t fully understand the importance of pacers. I understood that they kept the runner company during the dark hours of the night but they are so much more than that. I saw some of the roles of the pacer while driving around, and even more when I [...]

As a handler for a 100 mile race we must drive 120 miles. As a pacer you must run/walk 30 miles overnight and be cheerful about it. We’ll talk more about pacers in a later post. The handlers at least only have to be cheerful for the few minutes the runner comes through the aid [...]

The horses run their own event during the run: The Vermont 100 and Moonlight 50/75 endurace ride. I guess the original 100 mile runner started on horseback. For the second year in a row his horse had come up lame the day of the one day event. Rather than miss the race he decided to [...]