Life is a marathon, so pace yourself and run your own race.

Being an endurance athlete in Minnesota requires spunk, flexibility, and a bit of stubbornness. The winter weather is always a challenge, but it’s pretty rare that I let Mother Nature get in the way of doing what I want to do. I’ll run outside as long as temperatures are above zero, and that’s pretty typical for [...]

Sometimes, the races we train and plan for don’t turn out as we had anticipated. Other races, we expect to struggle and they turn out better than we ever could have hoped. Let’s start with a picture of the ending and you can figure out which kind of race I had:

Three months before this race, I had [...]

When I started cross country skiing four winters ago, I figured the learning curve would be a lot like running. I expected that there would no doubt be suffering in the beginning, but that it would soon be followed moments of enjoyment. Those moments of enjoyment would eventually become more numerous and, eventually, I would come to [...]

Twenty years ago, on Thanksgiving weekend, I married my best friend. How do two runner/triathletes celebrate 20 years of marriage?

Mike took me to Gear West and I went home with this beautiful triathlon bike and a lot of motivation to pull out the bike trainer and start laying the base for my half ironman race [...]