In a life full of obligations and commitments, full of places to go, things to do and people who require “just a bit of your time”, of to-do lists and task lists and check lists and grocery lists and operational requirements and deadlines, in a life full of concerns about carbon dioxide outside, carbon monoxide […]

Me:  Man, I can’t believe Ray made us add on that extra 800m repeat at the end.  I had just downed all my water.

Matt Woods: Yeah, you have to Beware of the Bear.

Me:  The what??

Matt: The Bear.  Whenever you’re running you have to make sure that you have that last […]

Not sure about you guys but the MMT dust has largely settled around the ol’ Gorman household and Gaby is all in a tizzy about the next adventure, the Old Dominion 100 on June 4th.  That’s actually only 50% true because I’m the one pumped up for Old Dominion, not Gaby.  She isn’t even running […]

I admire Jack Andrish’s honest compendium of a valiant effort at Saturday’s Massanutten Mountain Trail 100.  We all obviously run these long, silly, impossibly hard races for very personal reasons.  Not coincidentally, among us, these “reasons” are often similar; revealing how much we human beings, men and women, young and old, actually have in common […]

Jack Andrish

May 15, 2011

When did it happen?

Well, it has been four years since my last race report; five years since I finished all but the last 3 miles of “Massanutten;” and seven years since my last “official” 100-mile finish.  Perhaps it is time for another report.  I used to enjoy the recall […]