Posts in the "Race & Event Reports" Category

  • Inside Passage Trip Report

    Here is the 10 minute Inside Passage Sea Trials movie – enjoy!:

    I know this might sound a little corny or sappy, but sometimes I feel like my actions, goals and general direction in life are being guided by some mysterious force in the universe with the goal of setting me up just to experience it’s [...]

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  • California International Marathon, big wave surfing and Plastiki

    MARATHON
    Helen and I just got back from a wonderful trip out to the San Fransisco bay area.
    We started our little mini-vacation with running the California International Marathon. I was injured so I was expecting to walk most of it. As it turned out, my hamstring injury wasn’t that bad and I was able to run [...]

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  • Sea Trials YouTube videos!

    I just finished uploading 3 new videos: the story of our Vancouver Island sea trials from a couple of weeks ago which is a two-part YouTube video, and a highlights video which is about 4 minutes of footage of WiTHiN in the water for those of you who want to get right to the boat [...]

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  • Vancouver Island sea trial photos

    I’m back from our Vancouver Island sea trials now. Our shake-down cruise was unfortunately abbreviated, but was great while it lasted. We saw seals, dolphins, jelly fish, and were making great speed and everything was going as planned. Then we had a sudden drive leg failure, almost ran into a ferry, dealt with the [...]

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  • Lost Sole 1, Greg 0

    According to Wikipedia, a “Coulee” is:
    Coulees are generally deep steep-sided ravines formed by erosion, commonly found in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. If you try to run across Coulees, they will destroy you, crush you, and you will hurt. And they will make you cry like a baby.
    (OK – so maybe I ‘edited’ [...]

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  • Lake trials!

    WiTHiN hits the water for the first time!

    No surprises at the lake today which is good news! Loading into the water was a snap – good thing I made the 8′ tongue extender. It worked perfectly and WiTHiN slid off the bunks into the water. The drive to the reservoir was a bit bouncy. The [...]

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  • Hamburger Feet – the Sinister 7 ultramarathon

    “No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.” ~ Charles Kettering
    There was a storm and I got off my ship. It was my second dreaded DNF (did not finish) in my athletic career – the first was the 24 hour human powered distance record attempt [...]

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  • My first ultramarathon – race report

    The Northface Endurance Challenge Gortex 50 mile ultramarathon race report

    To say I was having a good day would be the understatement of the year. I was on fire and after 9 hours I was flying through the mountainous course feeling WAY too good. Something bad just HAD to happen…
    My first triathlon coach gave me some [...]

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  • Marathons, Motivation, Making Boats & Most Extreme

    Surf City Marathon

    Helen and I just got back from a GREAT trip down to Huntington Beach, California for the Surf City Marathon – a top rate event which I HIGHLY recommend if you are looking for a scenic marathon to run. We were there with our good friends Kevin and Cindy Casper.
    Cindy had a great [...]

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  • 24 hour HPB record report

    Wow… “this is one of those moments that I will never, ever forget” I thought. My senses were being overloaded. It was nothing less than absolutely spectacular. From my three sentence blog that I typed in over my Blackberry from on board Critical Power 2 in the middle of Whitefish lake sometime around midnight: “15.5 [...]

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