"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." - George S. Patton, Jr. ______________________ Between labored breaths and awkward stabs into the ground with my trekking poles, I desperately glance down at my GPS watch. It reads 17.1 miles, only 0.2 miles more than it read the last time I checked. "You've got to be kidding me" I mumble under my breath, with a few other choice expletives. I'm Continue reading →
2018 Eagle Endurance Dirt Dash Half Marathon Recap
How many times do you have to participate in an annual event before it official becomes deemed a family tradition? I'm going to go ahead and say three, therefore making our annual trek down to Eagle Endurance's Dirt Dash now a family tradition. In 2015, shortly after we moved back to the beach, Geoff was given an entry to a race down in the Francis Marion National Forest: the Dirt Dash Continue reading →
2018 Hell Hole Hundred: Stories from a Chicken Bell Ringer
It would be safe to say that signing up for the Hell Hole Hundred two weeks after running 90 miles at Knock on Wood was a bad decision, except for the fact that I signed up for Hell Hole first. So in retrospect, perhaps attempting a 100 miler at Knock on Wood when I knew I was going to attempt running 100 miles two weeks later was a bad decision... ...except that nothing about this sport is Continue reading →
Knock on Wood 100 – 2018 Race Report
"Sometimes think I'm in this for the wrong reasons." It was somewhere around 9:30 pm on Saturday night and I was sitting on the floor of a massive wooden observation deck among the trees in the middle of the Lake Conestee woods. In retrospect, it was an absolutely ridiculous place to be. I had spent the last 25.5 hours and 87 miles on my feet and the 25 or so steps I had to climb to Continue reading →
Wambaw Swamp Stomp 50 Mile – Race Report
"Miserable" is perhaps the first word that comes to mind when asked to describe the woods of the Swamp Fox Passage in the Francis Marion National Forest. It's notoriously hot, humid, and buggy, as swamps typically are. The trail itself is deceptively difficult, with knobby roots and grass covered holes just waiting to turn an ankle, making sure you can never truly open up and run the endless Continue reading →
2018 Hallucination 6/12/24 Hour Trail Race Recap
To be honest, I believe a small part of me wanted to forget that the 2018 Hallucination 6/12/24 hour trail race ever happened. I suppose that's why it's taken me 54 days to write the race recap. Whenever I stop to think about how long I've been running, I think of how old my oldest kid is, and count back 60 days. Eleven years and four months. Granted I had certainly before that, I grew up an Continue reading →
2018 Frozen Hell Hole Hundred – Race Recap
It was one of those moments where you wish you could freeze time, and somehow bottle up the positive energy surrounding you in order to feed off of it forever. Despite having about 40 miles under my feet already, I was flying through the woods at a "I feel like I could run this pace forever" speed. The mid-winter sun was slowly beginning to set, casting the most breathtaking orange rays through Continue reading →
2017 Racing Awards: The Long, The Short, The Gutsy.
The countdown is on. With only 2.5 days left in 2017, running bloggers everywhere feel compelled to provide a yearly run down of the highs and lows of their race season. Of course I am no exception. If ever a year epitomized the "commotion" portion of the title of this very blog, 2017 was it. Chaos. Laughter. Hernias. Tears. Fox tails. 2017 had it all. So without further ado, I present Continue reading →
2017 One Epic Run 24 Hour Race Recap
It's been two and a half years since we left Vermont, and have been living, running, and racing in South Carolina. And in those two and a half years, we've raced all over the state, in all sorts of weather: from 90+ degree heat, to humidity so thick you could almost cut it with a knife, to running in the middle of actual hurricanes. While the weather here is as unpredictable as many other places Continue reading →
2017 Last Chance Trail Run 25K/50K Recap
"Uhhh...we have a problem." It was 7:00 am, and Geoff and I were standing in front of a registration tent in the middle of the woods, a task we have completed countless times before. The drill was all too familiar: walk up to the tent, smile, give your name, get your race bib, and be on your way. When you know the race director, you can skip the formalities of giving your name, and instead Continue reading →
2017 Hairy Bison 30K
Sometimes the best adventures are the spontaneous ones. The ones that present themselves out of the blue, the ones you quickly say "yes" to before the more rational, adult side of you can butt in with reminders of other responsibilities that you should tend to instead. The Hairy Bison 30K was exactly one of these adventures. Thursday afternoon a good friend of ours messaged Geoff inviting Continue reading →
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