Blog and race reports

The Double Paddy Buckley Round Friday 31st May - Sunday 2nd June 2024 52hrs 51mins 35secs, 131.93 miles, 58,537ft Round 1  Parc Padarn...

Cascade Half Marathon, Turner OR - 18th January 2026 The week before this race was a mess, not the training kind of mess (that would be more preferable), the life kind. The sort where things shift just enough to leave you slightly off-balance and never quite settled, personal circumstances moving under my feet and with it that low persistent dread of being unmoored when you’re supposed to be locked in. On paper everything was fine, I was deep into the Tarawera build which mea

What started as a middle finger to the running establishment has become exactly what it claimed to oppose: exclusionary, unverifiable, sponsor-saturated, and increasingly hollow. Here's why it matters.

A bad day for the Portland boys! but we didn't know that yet! I tell my athletes that race day is a celebration - of all the hours and miles that came before, all the hard work and sacrifice. On February 14th, that day finally arrived after more than four months of 5am alarms, early nights, double days, tedious strength sessions, and daily exposure to the unrelenting PNW winter. That celebration didn’t just fail to deliver. It looked me square in the eye, turned around, and w

After completing the Double Paddy Buckley Round and setting FKTs on both sides of the pond, there's one race that keeps pulling at me: Tor des Geants. The 330km (actually 350km) circuit through the Italian Alps with well over 24,000 meters of climbing represents everything I love about ultra running - technical terrain, massive vertical, and the kind of sufferfest that strips away everything but the essentials.

End to End to End | 8:04:57 | 60.4 miles | ~6,000 ft | Portland, OR CRUISIN - Brigit @hellobrigit On July 1st, 2025, I entered the pain...

Studs studding Distance: 50 miles Elevation Gain: 10,000 ft Time: 8:11:22 Place: 6th Overall Location: Tillamook State Forest, Oregon...

A refill before loosing my flask bite valve!!! Distance: 31 miles Elevation Gain: 4,000 ft Time: 3:46:16 Place: 2nd Overall Location:...

South terminus of the Milford Track Date: Nov 18th 2023 Distance:  ~33 miles / 53km Vertical Gain:  ~4,000ft / 1,200m Style:  Solo &...

Date:  March 22nd 2025 | Location:  Marin County, CA Distance:  50K | Elevation Gain:  ~7,000ft | Conditions:  Sea mist, warm sun,...

This one was for you. On paper, Gorge Waterfalls 30k doesn’t make a lot of sense for me. I specialise in the long stuff—the 100 milers,...