Marshall Ulrich

Marshall Ulrich

Mar­shall Ulrich Mar­shall Ulrich, 57, is the only per­son in the world to com­plete the Triple Crown of Extreme Sports: world class ultra run­ner, record set­ting adven­ture racer, and Seven Sum­mits moun­taineer. His spe­cialty is com­pet­ing in extreme con­di­tions includ­ing desert and adven­ture rac­ing, as well as moun­taineer­ing. Mar­shall has: Com­pleted over 116 ultra marathons averaging […]

Anton Krupicka

Anton Krupicka

Anton Krupicka Anton Krupicka is one crazy run­ner. Crazy good. He won the Leadville Trail 100 mile endurance run in 2006 and 2007, fin­ish­ing over three hours ahead of his near­est com­peti­tor in 2007. That time was also the sec­ond fastest recorded time ever. Anton has an uncon­ven­tional per­spec­tive on train­ing, and run­ning in gen­eral. He […]

Cocoa Chia Shake

Chia Seeds 2

This is a ter­rific energy drink that will load you up with nutri­ents pre or post run. Cocoa Chia Shake Ingre­di­ents 16 oz soy milk (I use Silk) 1 banana 1/4 cup frozen berries (boy­sen­ber­ries or blue­ber­ries are really good) 1/2 Tbs chia seeds (or 3 Tbs chia gel*) 1 Tbs soy pro­tein (I use Whole Foods […]

A Beast in the Night

Beast

I had this dream last night. I often don’t remem­ber my dreams, but this one is still quite vivid to me. In it I was lying on the grass, enjoy­ing the blue sky when all of a sud­den I was being kicked. I remem­ber sev­eral thoughts run­ning through my head in a flash. What would […]

On Being Vegetarian

Vegetables & Fruits

I am at least a third gen­er­a­tion veg­e­tar­ian (do they give out prizes for that?). My father and his par­ents were veg­e­tar­i­ans all of their lives and my mom and her par­ents had been mostly veg­e­tar­ian (a few cooked hens at a few Christ­mas din­ners), and my mom hadn’t had any meat for many years […]

Five Froggy Fingers

Frog With Toes

I recently fin­ished read­ing the incred­i­bly eye-opening and delight­fully inspir­ing book Born to Run, by Christo­pher McDougall. In it, Chris intro­duces us to Bare­foot Ted, a big man with a big mouth and an equally big heart who used to have ter­ri­ble foot pains that crip­pled his run­ning abil­ity. He began to walk with­out shoes […]

Chia Head

Chia Field

I have been read­ing the book Born to Run over the past few days and have been absolutely mes­mer­ized with all that I’m dis­cov­er­ing in it. One of the “learn­ings” (quotes because the rea­sons aren’t new, just hit­ting home through the run­ning topic of the book) is that so many of the top ultra­run­ners eat […]

Present Pleasure

I walked over a mile yes­ter­day, and it felt quite good. When I started out I wasn’t feel­ing that great — my left butt mus­cles and leg were doing their usu­ally cramp­ing and sci­at­ica. How­ever, around a mile into it, I began to feel the strangest sen­sa­tions. I was walk­ing nor­mally — kick­ing my left […]

Suspended Physical Therapy

Dur­ing my phys­i­cal ther­apy ses­sion yes­ter­day I dis­cussed with my ther­a­pist, Gayle, the deci­sion of Dr. Saal’s to send me for surgery (a dis­cec­tomy). Gayle rec­om­mended that since I was going to have the surgery, we sus­pend ses­sions until after the surgery (con­sul­ta­tion with sur­geon is cur­rently sched­uled for the 12th of Aug.!). She gave me […]

Looking at the Lumbar

After the deci­sion was made with my back doc­tor to get surgery (will be per­formed at UCSF), I signed out a CD ROM with the images from my MRI on it. Hop­ing I might be able to view the images, I popped the CD into my com­puter. Lo and behold, not only could I view […]

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