Review: Tailwind Endurance Fuel Flavor – Watermelon (aka Dauwaltermelon)

When it comes to ultra running, finding the right nutrition can make or break your performance. This has led me to try Tailwind Endurance Fuel’s Watermelon flavor, affectionately known as Dauwaltermelon, named after elite ultra runner Courtney Dauwalter. Here’s my honest take on it. A Rocky Start with Tailwind My journey with Tailwind didn’t start…

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The Weekly Recap – June 16 2024

Ciao amici! Another week of pounding the trails is in the books, and boy, do I have some stories. ICYMI… . I just spent the week in Torino, Italy! Picture this: me, darting through the Italian forest like a caffeinated gazelle, channeling my inner gelato-fueled Italian stallion. Spoiler alert – I didn’t spill my espresso…

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The Weekly Recap – June 9 2024

Why hello there! As I’ve indicated to a bunch of people lately I intend to lean into the content creation of this site. That starts today with the first weekly recap. This idea came to me today during either my run this morning or while walking the dog afterward, I can’t remember! Figure it would…

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The Uwharrie Mountain Run video!

Once again I have slacked off on posting content here. Really need to fix that and get it done. That said, figured might as well get that Uwharrie event video edited and published before my next event…which is in 1 week! Holy heck! Enjoy!  

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New Goals for the New Year

Why hello there!  Happy 2023! So.. after giving it some thought and getting feedback via the Instagram post.. I’m happy to announce that I’ve picked one of my BIG events.  I also have some smaller goals as well. Starting with the smaller item.  I was thinking about trying to double the number of registered events…

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MY Freight Train 50K Recap

Hello! Been a hot sec… and ya…..welp…finally got around to putting together a little recap of my experience at The Freight Train 50K. Enjoy!   PS: The GoPro footage from the event itself coming shortly too!

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Off The Books Backyard 50K

Once again .. too long since a blog post.. but such is life.   Quick update — training is going well, the training miles are ticking upward and the calendar is ticking downward!  With that being said, I’ve picked a date and location for my longest training run and I wanted to share… more on that…

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