Field Notes are a mix of thoughtful essays and adventure journaling.
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It's been an eventful couple months. Our plan going into the trail running season was to tackle the Mammoth Trail Fest 50K at the end of September. We had to pivot due to some personal issues and an extended trip to Bend, Oregon. Smoke from forest fires put
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This question was posed to me not long ago. A simple straightforward question, all of four words. Yet, the question is unduly complex for there are multiple factors that contribute to an honest answer. Before I embarked on this current journey my immediate response to this question was no, I
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Live a life true to yourself to live the good life.
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Vitality is being alive even after a hard's day work, or a big week of training.
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It’s the vernal equinox and one of my favorite days because it means more sun, more warmth and more dirt. Spring with her longer days and shorter nights has always signaled a transition out of hibernation – a rebirth of nature. Though we often happily notice bare branches blossoming, seemingly
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It’s that time of the year. Everyone seems to be posting top photos, articles, and highlights of 2020. To be transparent, we don’t have much to share on that front. It’s been a rough year and we were less productive than we would have liked with Dirty
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Everyone seems to be migrating here to Bend, tis the season I guess, and all we can think about is how to get back to our rambling roots.
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We've been quiet with our posting and writing this year as uncertainty has been heavy. We've planted ourselves, we've uprooted ourselves, we've embarked on humble adventures, done some big races, dealt with injury, pursued more knowledge and continue to explore where we
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Fear is good. Failure is necessary. I could end this post here and just hope you, the reader, accept that as fact, but most of us have grown up under the fiction that fear is weakness and failure is unacceptable.The truth is fear is the instinct keeping us from
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The new year is upon us, the last went by quickly. The year had a bit of everything we hoped for with a handful of things we could have done without. There was excitement, challenges, cold nights, hot days, injuries, many miles by foot, not enough miles by bike, bookshops,
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It’s mid-December! Time to cue up New Year’s resolution blog posts and motivational Instagram memes. There’s still plenty of time to gorge ourselves on holiday treats, drown our livers in yuletide cheer and forgo our daily writing so that by the first of January we feel guilty
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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. — Abraham Maslow I believe in dreaming, in magic, in a small (yet greater) purpose, in stories, in a universal connectedness amongst us
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.“I don’t much care where–” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “–so long
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We tend to fight our impulses. Neither Susan nor I have felt particularly drawn to, or satisfied, living in one place. We each have lived in multiple locations over our four-plus decades on this planet, coincidentally both living in Massachusetts as children, then moving to Northern California for middle and
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Wisdom is a personal understanding of knowledge that is then applied.
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Maybe it was the lack of oxygen, maybe the dwindling light, maybe the sounds of heaving on the trail beside me, but I was starting to get a little scared. I tried not to let my voice reveal the anxiety in my head, but knowing we just had to keep