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Team Ripper Rides Again!!
Team Ripper Rides Again! (Race #6?) This past weekend Bend hosted the Bend Beer Chase. This quintessential Central Oregon event c ...
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POST #2 - 158 Days Left
The email from RTP is jarring. How long is 158 days? How many runs? How many breaths? how many steps, how many planning days a ...



Welcome To The Lands Of The Nomads!
Hi Everyone, Many of you know me from previous RacingThePlanet and 4 Deserts races. The Gobi March is the first race I started organising when I joine ...



Remember Greatness Together!
Saturday, May 7th, 2022 – Swakopmund, Namib The following lines were said by a great Norwegian explorer named Carl Lumholtz in the end of the 1 ...
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After Finishing Namib Race 2022 :)
Namibia Race 2022 It flew by, it was a week. A wonderful week in every way. I was telling my dad that it still didn't sink in what we were doing. Wha ...

Last Stage - Mil Gracias!
The final stage snuck up on me. I can’t decide if this week went by super fast or if I was in the middle of the desert for a very long time. It& ...

Etappe 5: Long Run Done! Nun Aber Keinen Wirkliche ...
Lief ziemlich gut. Yihaaaaaa. Bin gestern Abend gegen 19 Uhr reingekommen, heute morgen um 9 Uhr die letzten Teilnehmer. Zurecht unter grosem Jubel un ...

Stage 5
What a day!! The Long March was a race unto itself and very different from the other four stage so far. It is just so motivational to be s ...


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Closing Thoughts - "Why?"
Sometimes, I ask myself this question when things get hard. But, the answers are never very far away. First, there can be no success withou ...

The Last Dessert
Chocolate Mousse – in case you are interested. Given we are now in the Drake having a very big shake – it feels like it could be (the last one ...

Ultima Etapa – Mikkelsen Bay, 29 De Noviembre 2018
Toda buena aventura tiene su final. Salimos puntuales a las 7:30 hacia la orilla. Esta vez íbamos acompañados de por todos los pasajeros del barco ...

Zondag 2 December
Na een vreselijke verschrikkelijke stormnacht, zijn we er bijna! De Drakenstraat hebben we bijna gekruist, oef. Vannacht waren er wel golven van ze ...

Zaterdag 1 December – Log … Tel Kwijt
Vandaag vrijwel niks gedaan tenzij scheef gehangen en van links naar rechts gevlogen. Nog nooit zo’n golven gezien; ze slaan zelfs over de brug en (ho ...



The Finish
I made it. Woohoo! The final stage was just 10km downhill along a winding dirt road. My pack was significantly lighter, with all consumables ei ...
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Mud And Cobblestones
Apologies for not posting the past two days-- was a bit more tired than usual and now on the rest day I have a free minute to post. I'll do a post for ...

160km In The Bag.
Once again apologies for my lack of contact. I would have blogged yesterday – but we had a big storm = hail and rain which precluded sitting a ...

Before I Knew It Georgia 2022 Was Here!
Holy Crap, before I knew it Georgia 2022 was here! I knew weather would be a factor but I didn’t anticipate what we got. That is racing and sh ...



Socks!
Saturday was an absolutely perfect Alaska spring day. Blue sky with only a few small wispy clouds. I chose to take my pack (and my new socks!) for a h ...

Ein Rucksack Voller Müsliriegel
Hallo liebe Freunde, Soviel was wir als selbstverständlich halten, scheint auseinanderzubrechen. Eine junge Generation hat Angst, vor dem was da ...
I Have A Butterfly Garden In My Stomach!
I will be brief today. It is an open door or maybe smaller, a window. I am looking out and saying hello to the infinite. I have never blogged, I ha ...

Excited, Nervous, And Feeling Lost As A First Time ...
Talk about feeling the range of emotions after hitting the submit button on my registration for the race. From pure excitement to the adventure ...

A Long Ways To Go
As I look at the calendar I realize I have "a long ways to go" until the race, as I have started my training and am limping around everywhere now I re ...