AK’s Adventures

Interesting article in this month’s Outside Magazine — talks about an experiment using Viagra to deal with high altitude issues.  Check out this article on WebMD, and another one on Science Daily.
Reason I bring this up is because I’ve been concerned about AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness or Altitude Sickness) as I’m getting ready to head [...]

As Big John McCarthy would say, LET’S GET IT ON!
In three days, I board a plane for Denver, on my way to Leadville, CO, the highest incorporated city in North America sitting at 10,152′ — site of the Leadville Trail 100. There, I will join 580 others (largest in history) at the starting [...]

To those who ran the Mt Disappointment 50/50 yesterday — congratulations in taking on a very challenging course, especially the new 50 miler. New records were set, and returning champs from last year, were also victorious this year. Matthias Schoeck and Michelle Barton took the 50K titles, and Jorge Pacheco and Diana Rush [...]

The Mt Disappointment 50k has added a 50 mile option this year — I’ll be there volunteering somewhere.  Also, the new Headlands Hundred, put on by Wendell and Sarah of PC Trail Runs is this weekend as well.
Best of luck to all participants.

Yesterday, the Blue Planet Run came through LA, after touching down in San Francisco earlier this week, and heading down the coast to SoCal. I was hoping to see my friend Dot, but turned out that she’s on the late shift (3-8am), so didn’t get to unfortunately. I did manage to pace two [...]