3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (530+ words) This man is 82. If he can train a few days a week, so can you. There’s a great Seinfeld episode where Jerry’s dad introduces us to his buddy Izzy Mandelbaum, who’s “80 years old and strong as an ox.” It’s a…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (415+ words) Going super hard, crushing this, full-sending that; it all feels out of step with the realities of my middle-aged body. About 15 years ago — during the golden hour of life I now think of as my early 30s — some of my old…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (212+ words) It's possible that I've run 20,000 miles on these trails, but that number is far from the point. Despite what the internet suggests, running deeper into the places we’re from, rather than wider into the places we’re not, might have something…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (748+ words) I looked longingly at the orange latex-coated gloves on the stranger next to me. Wish I’d thought of that. Or that I’d brought climber’s chalk, or something. Calluses I’d hardened over a half-decade were ripping in real time. The tiny…...