Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/6093360537 After DNF-ing my first official 100 mile race (Mohican 100) on Halloween 2020, I trained for nearly a full year before I would get another crack at it at the Indiana Trail 100 on October 9-10, 2021. While failing to finish Mohican stunk, that was a good…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/6021241286 My friend Jessica scheduled this adventure and, along with her husband Juan and our mutual friend Tim, invited me to join the fun! It was a quick trip to Colorado for us. We flew Spirit Airlines out of Detroit on Friday night and our flight back to…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/5868855025 After seeing Aly’s pictures of Mount of the Holy Cross I knew this was a mountain I had to climb! We picked the last Saturday in August and lucked out with excellent conditions. The plan was to hike the standard route (North Ridge, Class 2) to the…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/5830677680 Having registered for the Pikes Peak Ascent and the Marquette Trail 50, both scheduled for August 21, 2021, I had to make a decision as that date approached. I went with the mountain race (and as it turns out avoided the brutality of running 50 miles in…
The Arizona Trail (AZT) is an 800-mile long designated National Scenic Trail located wholly within Arizona. The trail runs south-north between the Mexico and Utah borders. The Arizona Trail Association breaks the trail up into 43 contiguous segments, called “passages”. MAP HERE As of December 31, 2023 I have covered 20.7 unique miles of the Arizona…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/5265232908Instagram: joshu_ultra Going rim-to-rim-to-rim (R2R2R) entails a double-crossing of the Grand Canyon in a single push. There are a few ways to do this and the route I chose (BA-NK-BA) was to descend from the South Rim to the Colorado River via Bright Angel Trail, ascend North Kaibab…
After registering for the Zion Ultras 50K, held on April 10, 2021, I built a road-trip vacation around the race with the goal of seeing as much of the desert southwest as I could pack in, with an emphasis on hitting the National Parks. I ended up visiting eight National…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/5145001781 I ran the Gemini Adventures! Desert RATS Trail Running Festival 50K on the tenth day of a whirlwind road trip that, up to that morning, had already included 120 miles of trail running and hiking with no rest days. I had run the Zion Ultras 50K the…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/5105339116 With my friends Jessica and Jacob already registered for the 2021 Zion Ultras 50K and my long-standing desire to explore the desert southwest, it was an easy decision to grab my own spot in the race once registration opened up in 2020. We booked airfare and lodging…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/4815015547 My first sight of the Grand Canyon was out the driver’s-side window of a rental car along the East Rim Drive between the National Park entrance and the South Kaibab Trailhead. It was a chilly February morning, with snow blanketing the forest floor but absent from all…