Jeremy's Blog

What is a BHAG? It is a  B ig H airy A udacious G oal I form BHAGs and I'm persistent (or stubborn? headstrong?) enough to keep working at them. I draw my motivation from the legendary Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Read about her  here . She says "If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough" Here's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf looking at me thinking, "Don't you dare give up on those BHAGs!" Sidenote: Her quotation also can be heard in the song  Dreams by Life of Dillon. As some of you know I am a (slight) Steve "Pre" Prefontaine fan. Here is a quotation he made famous, reminding me to always pursue my goals. You can have BHAGs in all areas of life. Don’t make them easily attainable goals. Make them something you will really have to WORK for. I will list my 2018 BHAGs for running below: 5k: Break 18:50 (Overall PR: 19:06. 2017 PR: 19:31) 10k: Break 40:00 (Overall PR: Unknown. 2017 PR: 4

After my last race report (Grindstone, a couple posts back) I decided to make this recap *slightly* less long-winded. Hope you enjoy! Accurate Course Description! Pre-Race Last year I crewed for my friend Jeremiah “Bullfrog” Clark. As I helped at the aid stations I ran across a Liberty student named Kaitlyn. Bundled up, all I could really see was her face. Not thinking much about it, I ran into her at Snowflex a couple months later when she recognized me and I didn’t recognize her (awkward!). Fast forward to the summer and I saw her at her other job, Riverside Runners. We reconnected and stayed in touch through social media. After seeing her own plans to run Grindstone in 2018 (!!) I asked if she would be my crew for Hellgate. She responded with something along the lines of “heck yes”, and a plan was hatched. As the time drew near I asked her to pull double-duty: crew and pace. She willfully obliged and we were able to meet twice to run some trails and discuss race-day logi

As Hellgate 100k is less than 2 days away, I figured I would fill you in on my last big “adventure” of the year. I will be my nerdy, math self and share my personal statistics from the race year in a later post, probably with my Hellgate race report. History of Hellgate 100k++ Here is race director (RD) David Horton’s full race report from the first year, 2003: http://www.extremeultrarunning.com/hellgate_2003/race_report.htm I will include excerpts from his report, giving you the “highlights” “I had seen the Glenwood Horse Trail in different places as being anywhere from 60 – 64 miles…. around 100K???   In August of (2003)… I was thinking about running the GHT in two days as a fun run." "I thought, what the heck, why not just have a race…. and the story starts, and the work begins." "A location had to be determined for the start/finish.   After much looking, we found Camp Bethel (located near Fincastle, VA and just over one mile from the