Mark and I sat in the front window of a Denver coffee shop, talking about aging. Mark was 44, I…
Category Running
I trudge forward, the muddy road tugging at my running shoes, splattering my ankles and shins, as I finish the…
For the past couple years, I’ve drawn non-scientific charts and other doodles and posted them regularly on my Instagram feed.…
I didn’t know why it happened. I was doing OK until the guy with the dog came through, and then,…
I tried. For a while, it seemed like everyone was talking about how meditation changed their lives—friends, acquaintances, podcast interviewees…
The concept was pretty simple, and potentially disgusting: Run a marathon, 26.2 miles, around New York City, and eat five…
It’s (hopefully) common knowledge that if you want to climb a Colorado 14er in the summer, you should be on…
To climb rocks: Use your feet. Despite what you may have seen in Cliffhanger, or depictions of climbing in energy…
4:35 a.m. The wind blows across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, 20 mph constant. Mitsu and I hurriedly…
I was hesitant to try Strava at first: Everybody’s heard about some jackass who almost ran over a kid on…
Just over a year ago today, I signed up for my first 100-mile ultramarathon with a guy I’ve been friends…
Or anyone who’s run further than they thought was fun. —Brendan
Dear New Guy At The Climbing Gym, or lady running around the track at the park for the first time,…
It happened again yesterday, like it always does, about three-quarters of the way through my run: I started to try…
Today, I get to share something that some wonderful people and I have been working on for almost two years:…
I plodded my way up the Hayden Trail, headed up toward my fifth “summit” of the day as the sun…
I hate running, three to four times a week if I have time. I hated it yesterday for a little…
Dear Foam Roller: I think— Oh, you thought I was just going to say “fuck you,” didn’t you? Well, hold…
Last Saturday morning, while most of us were asleep, Kilian Jornet and Jason Schlarb decided to run across the Hardrock…
There are all kinds of benefits to running, but let’s not bullshit ourselves: One of the biggest benefits is eating…