The Boudloche clan tends to be very traditional when it comes to Christmas. Not traditional traditional, but we generally adhere pretty firmly to our own weird traditions. For 37 years, we've all gone to sleep at my parents' house on Christmas Eve, after a family dinner and hanging the stockings ("the stockings were hung by the chimney with hooks ( Read more... )

Last long weekend before we begin tapering for Collegiate Peaks, why not do a supported long trail run? Plus, Laura wanted to do the 10k and didn't want to go out there alone. Plus, it felt like forever since I'd done a Rogue trail race (though the internet claims that perhaps it has only been since 2011).

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Going into this race, a lot of things were similar to last year's race (for those who don't want to read last year's race report but want a summary, it was my first night trail run, and I had a lot of issues with the headlamp, tunnelvision, being alone in the dark in the woods, etc). It was hot. Even hotter than last year. Car said 104 when we got ( Read more... )