Posts by Joe Grant

After a rather long, hot, winding, drive from Boulder, Deanne, dog and I arrive late afternoon at the quaint mountain town of Lake City, Colorado.  A couple days prior, we’d decided to change our plans of cramming into my one and a half person tent for the weekend, in favor of a more comfortable retreat in a small cabin that became available last minute. To our delight the cabin faces the start/finish area, the coffee shop and the bar, so other than actually running the race, I won’t have to travel much further than the backyard for the rest of the weekend. I try my best to retain as much of the course information as possible from the pre-race briefing, but as with most of these, the details, “Alpine loop…jeep roads…left on that...

  “…people want immediate reactions, immediate gratification, immediate understanding but I was trying to invoke more of a feeling than anything else…” JonOne   Grays – Torreys – Edwards – CDT – random couloir back to the...

  Somehow Nick Clark convinced me to go run 30 miles on the road on Saturday. Well, he didn’t do much convincing rather he simply stated that he wanted to, “1. run 2. avoid significant snow. 3. get up high.” In that respect, running the civilized route up Mt. Evans, America’s highest paved road, makes a lot of sense. In practice though, while you are running, avoiding significant snow and getting up high, it’s hard not to curse whoever built the road for taking the most ridiculously circuitous route up the hill. They certainly didn’t consult with JV otherwise the road would have been closer to 4 miles long instead of the interminable 14 from the ranger station.    Pete came down with Nick from Fort Collins...

Ganley – McClellan – Mt. Edwards – Argentine Peak. A good day in the high country with Jeff Valliere and Aron...

I got a call from Nicolas Mermoud mid-afternoon on Friday inviting me to run the Golden Gate Dirty Thirty with him the next day. I had plans to go to Pikes Peak for some altitude training but had been fighting off a cold for the past few days so the thought of a bit shorter drive and the extra motivation of running with people sounded appealing. That’s until I realized that the race start was at 6am meaning a 4am wake up call for me. I got out of bed feeling groggy and coughing with Deanne telling me I sounded terrible and that maybe I should reconsider. The thought certainly crossed my mind but I had breakfast prepped so I wouldn’t toast the coffee and boil the toast and was meeting Tony at the Eldorado Springs turn off in a half hour. He was about as...

Hoka OneOne one year at Boulder Running Company anniversary...