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It’s somewhere around 3:00 in the morning. I’ve been up somewhere around 24 hours. And I’m… somewhere. I just don’t know where. My partner Sean and I have just descended hundreds feet...

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I’m only 165 miles in. Still more than 40 to go. Pain shoots up through the bottoms of my feet. Every step feels like the trail is covered in broken glass, but it’s just the early stages of t...

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Three weekends. Three races. Three sets of skills. A lot of times in ultrarunning, we can be so focused on piling up our weekly mileage that we forget about to look around and have a little fun....

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Seven years ago I discovered Utah. I don’t mean like Mormon-level-discovered Utah. I just mean, like, I personally discovered it. I somewhat drunkenly convinced my old college roommate Matt t...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/10/17 – Day Thirteen Like  I was saying… hot damn!  Yesterday was fu...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/9/17 – Day Twelve Well hot damn we did it. That took about everything we h...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/8/17 – Day Eleven It’s been a wait. But it’s been good. Giving our bod...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/7/17 – Day Ten Fortunes change in an instant. After a somewhat rough nig...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/6/17 – Day Nine My God, I opened the tent last night to look at the stars,...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/5/17 – Day Eight What a difference a few hours make. We awoke to calm morn...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/4/17 – Day Seven A bad day that just got worse. All last night we were p...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/3/17 – Day Six  Wow. Sorry about yesterday. I was in the grips of a semi-...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . We cached our food and fuel at Camp Canadá and then continued on to Nido de C�...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 2/1/17 – Day Four Rest day. Life in Base Camp is good. There’s a lively bu...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 1/31/17 – Day Three Woof. That was a proper day. We shoved off early (target...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 1/30/17 – Day 2 We’re hunkered down in our tent right now in the midst of...

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Note: I’m publishing my entire Aconcagua journal serially. If you want to read from the beginning, start here . 1/29/17 – DAY 1 We haven’t left the hotel yet this morning, but we’ve a...

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1/28/17 – Hiker’s Eve Things are very, very real now. After months of imagining and researching and conjecturing, tomorrow is the day the adventure begins. After getting our official clim...

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It’s 6:13 in the morning. The sun is about to break over the Tennessee countryside. I’ve already run 98.8 miles. And now, I find myself passing the two giant piles of frozen burritos that hav...

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I’ve been running ultramarathons since 2011. And in that time, I’d like to think that I’ve learned a lot about the sport, about the human body, about the natural world around me and about m...

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