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HUMOR, RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING July 30, 2020 July 29, 2020

Running Is So Simple

by brendan

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12 FAVORITE ADVENTURES, RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020

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[photo by White Blaze Productions] [NOTE: 2020 is the tenth year of my blog at Semi-Rad.com, and since I started it, I’ve been…

RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING June 27, 2019 June 22, 2019

by brendan

Here’s something you don’t really want to hear the week before you run a 100-mile race you’re not sure you can finish: The course…

ADVENTURE, CLIMBING, ESSAYS, MOUNTAINEERING, RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING April 25, 2019 April 24, 2019

by brendan

Mark and I sat in the front window of a Denver coffee shop, talking about aging. Mark was 44, I was 37. Thirty-seven and…

ESSAYS, RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING November 29, 2018 November 11, 2019

by brendan

I didn’t know why it happened. I was doing OK until the guy with the dog came through, and then, all of a sudden,…

ADVENTURE, HIKING, RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING April 19, 2018 April 18, 2018

by brendan

4:35 a.m. The wind blows across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, 20 mph constant. Mitsu and I hurriedly grab hats and gloves,…

HUMOR, RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING July 27, 2017 November 11, 2019

by brendan

Or anyone who’s run further than they thought was fun. —Brendan More stuff like this in my new book, Bears Don’t Care…

RUNNING, ULTRARUNNING May 19, 2016 October 25, 2017

by brendan

I guess my theory about ultramarathons is that everyone who’s ever heard of them has two immediate questions: 1) Why the hell would you…