One of the most asked questions when people look at my race map is “why? Why would you put your body through that?” Which, to be fair, is a quite logical question. My response is always “why not?” The second most asked question is “how come you have done all these states but still haven’t [...]
After wrapping up the Timberline Marathon, Kaela and I were ready to start our week vacation of the Pacific Northwest. My next race was 7 days away but we were going to make the most of the time that we had, especially after the fun travel experience on the way out. I wasn’t sure how [...]
When Kaela and I started planning out races for this 50 states journey, we knew the west coast would be a challenge. Since we would not have the ability to drive in a weekend, flights were going to be the main mode of transportation. Due to cost and time this made planning difficult. After I [...]
Like many of the races on this adventure, my journey to South Dakota started with a visit to RunningInTheUSA.com. I noticed that the Brookings Marathon was having its 50th anniversary in 2019 and after registering for the 60th annual race in Atlantic City (I had not yet run it), I thought it would be fun [...]
Back in Oklahoma last year I had the pleasure of spending a good part of the race with Chasidy. After some chatting about my goal she recommended a race in Texas. She had talked about how challenging the hills in the race were and said that she thought it would be something that I would [...]
Coming off a great race in Delaware, it was time to head just a few hours away to Atlantic City, NJ. When I was planning out races for NJ, there were a lot of options that seemed like a lot of fun but since this worked out for the back to back I jumped on [...]
After the back to back races earlier in the year, Kaela convinced me that it would be an easier way to knock out neighboring states especially when having to drive. Since the first attempt was successful (even including a PR) I planned another for the fall on the east coast. I would start with the [...]
We like to wrap vacations around races, as it is the easiest way to kill two birds with one stone. Kaela and I had been wanting to go to Alaska for some time now and actually were able to make it work into our schedule. Alaska is a multiple leg flight from Columbus and with [...]
Going into 2018 I had a goal of going further than I had before. I wasn't quite ready to plunge into a 100 miler but knew that I needed to stretch my limits to what seemed just out there. In 2017, after I completed North Country 50 miler, I felt that with a little bit [...]
The Run CRANDIC was not my first choice when originally planning for Iowa. I wanted to run the highly rated Marathon to Marathon. However, 2017 was the last year that they were running the race so I had to start looking into other options. A quick trip to Running in the USA (I think I [...]
