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Breaking and Excellent Points: September 2013

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013. I wiped the sweat from my brow as I reached the final switchback. A minute more and I had reached the clearing, 5.5 miles and 3500’ from the place I’d started, but still a long way from where I wanted to be. Well… I don’t know. But I do know that confidence is not belief. Belief is a whole other animal. Naturally, I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching in the past month plus since the race, and have considered this theme often. DO I BELIEVE IN MYSELF? BUT DO YOU BELIEVE?

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Breaking and Excellent Points: On Waterfalls and Wine

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Thursday, April 9, 2015. On Waterfalls and Wine. How is it April already? How have we already had Daylight Savings Time? How did I turn 32? Did I do my taxes correctly? Can we please have just one more snow storm? Is Lake Sonoma already this weekend? Turns out, the answer is yes. Showing my pops around the high country section of AC. Asked if I wanted to run the 50 since I was coming all the way up there, and I said ok. It was only later that I realized March 29. Is only two weeks before April 11. So yea...

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Breaking and Excellent Points: December 2012

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Friday, December 7, 2012. I'm a Selfish Bitch and You're an Amazing Friend: The Unspoken Fallout of Pandora's Race. How does a person come to the idea to run 100 miles? Wait You've done this before? And the conversation just kind of goes downhill from there. But the reality is, these are in fact, very good questions that I would very much like to answer. The only trouble being, I think you'll find the summation of my response to be wholly and dreadfully uninspired. I heard about it. I did it again. I mea...

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Jed and Annie taking themselves far too seriously.: May 2010

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Jed and Annie taking themselves far too seriously. Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Jed's Annual "Bike-to-Bag" 2010. Most might already know the whole story- Every year I've lived in Bishop, once a year in fact, I've ridden my bike from town, up into the mountains, and then skied up and down a new-to-me peak. Bike to the mountains, "bag" a peak. Bike to Bag. As part of the tradition, I've 'blogged' each year on the telemarktips.com. My first peak was the Keyhole Plateau- I climbed up it's SE Side. Incidental...

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Breaking and Excellent Points: DeSplintered.

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Monday, December 5, 2011. The best part is that the doc, who has long since left the hospital, makes a call to talk to me about what he found. It wasn't just scar tissue. It was straight up yucca tips. And even he was in shock over the whole thing. Boom. I'm an episode of HOUSE. Check it out:. 1/3 of an inch yucca splinter hiding in my knee joint for 6 months. Apparently the scar tissue (the stuff that looks like cherries here) was. Growing around it and obscured it from detection via MRI. My knee looks ...

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Breaking and Excellent Points: July 2014

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Thursday, July 31, 2014. Ready or not. It's here. So… hey. This blog still exists. I forgot too! So, are you ready? Jesus Stop asking that. I beg of you. SHADOW OF THE GIANTS 50K. Limping around the Panorama Trail - First Date looms in the background. I get it Piper. I, too, am trapped in a prison. SAN JUAN SOLSTICE 50 MILE. My entire body was numb for the next three hours. MORE EXCITEMENT! Sampling of the views up around 13,000'. You guys. This is Billy. We're not fucking around here. Somewhere up on Ma...

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Breaking and Excellent Points: August 2013

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013. What Happened at Angeles Crest. I’ve read enough inspirational quotes to know that I am not defined by my failures. And therein lies my problem. The 2013 Angeles Crest 100 was, by all accounts, to be my. And on and off for about 75 miles, by all accounts, it was. I arrived to the starting line healthy, well trained and as calm as I’ve ever been before the inevitable storm that is running 100 miles through the mountains. Shirts are totally "in.". If you had offered me a lottery-f...

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Breaking and Excellent Points: June 2012

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012. I am running Western States. Awesome. Training in the High Country - Duncan Canyon. In March, I completed my first race back post-surgery. It went well. I was happy. I had a mental breakthrough of sorts, and I had a lot to say about it. Then I went silent. There are movies, there are photos, there are race reports, there are course breakdowns. Jesus. I even watched a special on the history of the trail during the Gold Rush. Now if I'm hurling my guts out down in El D...Then, mos...

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Breaking and Excellent Points: January 2013

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Thursday, January 31, 2013. Connection Isn't a Buzzword: The Lost Art of Respect (and Basic Humanity). I am 29 years old, and that means a few things. At one point, I seriously rocked shoulder pads. I have a profound respect for all things 1980. There was a time when Matchbox 20 was my favorite band. I had to wait until 2006 to see the Cards win a World Championship. Unfortunately, I’ll be 30 in a month in a half. Am I going to go on a rant here? This is a photo I took of Dom. Opinions are always welcome...

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Breaking and Excellent Points: February 2015

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Monday, February 23, 2015. Ice Quest 2015: The Black Canyon 100k. It’s a funny thing about these ultramarathon affairs. Right now, I sit here quite sure that I am in the worst pain I’ve ever felt after a race, although I’m also quite sure it’s definitely not. And that’s the thing. I can never really remember exactly how it feels after completing one of these ordeals – the memory loss will begin tomorrow, in fact. Very unexpected things. Things of the awesome variety. Yogi tea, please don't fail me. We al...