February 2012

Running On The Moon

February 27, 2012
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Way back in August, I was contacted by Outside PR about getting a chance to run on a really cool treadmill called an Anti-Gravity Treadmill. These cool machines are made by a company called Alter-G. The offer couldn’t have come at a better time because at that time I was trying to run through some [...]

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2012 Hagg Mud 25K Race Report

February 20, 2012
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This past weekend was a busy one for the Smiths. But that’s how we like it around here—until we can’t stand it any more. Saturday, my little dude turned 5 and Pam ran in the Hagg Lake “Mud Run” 50K outside of Gaston, OR. She says she lost 250 “Mom points” by racing on her [...]

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Monday’s Bum Rap

February 13, 2012

This is reprinted from my friend, Jimmy Dean Freeman’s, Facebook Page. He’s an ultra marathoner, running coach, motivational speaker, stand up comic, and all around Renaissance Man. JDF is THE most positive person I’ve ever met in real life. He’s my Will Smith. It’s Monday. How do you feel about that? If it’s something to [...]

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A Few (too many) Words On Food

February 8, 2012

Pam and I have been talking A LOT, ad nauseum you might say, about food these days. We recently had a dinner party where we threw healthy nutrition off the Smith Family Bus and replaced it with a week (and a half) of the “high everything” diet. That is high calories, sugar, flour, grains, alcohol, [...]

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Really Training is Hard Work

February 5, 2012

Man I’m wiped out! After one week, it’s become painfully clear (we’re talking REAL pain here folks) that while I say I’ve been “training” (with 4 crossfits per week and 20-25 miles on the roads per week) I haven’t actually been TRAINING! Last week I stepped it up big time. For training purposes, my week [...]

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