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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. – Lao Tzu My yearly running odometer just rolled over 300 miles and we are nearly four months into 2010.  I have to chuckle [...]

Patience

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” – Author Unknown It is now five weeks post-Rocky Raccoon and I am starting to get a bit annoyed with this recovery-mode crap.  I yearn for that breeze in my face [...]

The Journey Back to Ultrarunning

30 mile long runs 60 mile weeks Effortless Running Feel Like an Ultrarunning Warrior Race Injury. 3 mile long runs 12 mile weeks Sluggish Running Feel Like an Ultrarunning Wuss Me. Since my knee issue at Rocky, I have been in serious healing/recovery mode and enjoying a few too many scoops of ice cream. Oh [...]

Cross Timbers Trail Run Photos and Volunteer Report

Over the weekend I enjoyed being on the flip-side and volunteered at the Cross Timbers Trail Run located in north Texas, on the south side of Lake Texoma. The event had a 50 mile, marathon, 1/2 marathon, and 5 mile run. An opportunity for nearly everyone to give the trail a try. Around 200 did just that! [...]

6 Steps to Ultrarunner DNF Recovery

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles Welcome all DNF ultrarunners. My name is David Hanenburg and I dropped at mile 75 of the Rocky Raccoon [...]

Rocky Raccoon 100 Trail Run Video – Psychedelic Re-mix

I put together a little Flip video capturing a bit of my Rocky Raccoon 100 75 experience. It has proved evident by the source video that managing a knee tweak during the event does not produce the somewhat smooth and non-chattery video one would like so…I ended up trying to remove some of the overcompensated [...]

Rocky Raccoon 100 Trail Run 2010 Race Report

Over the weekend, I attempted my first 100 mile trail run at the Rocky Raccoon 100 directed by Joe Prusaitis down in Huntsville State park located in southeast Texas. Rocky is one of the easier 100 mile events in the country and also located fairly close to home  - perfect! The course is five 20 [...]