No Tears This Year – The 2009 Western States 100 Gary Griffin, At least I didn’t have to endure the hardest part. No, it wasn’t another mountain to climb or another canyon to descend or another rock-strewn single track along some precipitous ridge in the...
The 2009 Tallahassee Ultra Distance Classic – a Study in Perseverance Gary Griffin Over the years of running ultras I have accumulated some of my favorite quotes – some inspirational, some quirky, some thought-provoking, some useless, and some that...
16 Years (and 330 Miles!) on the Croom Trails Gary Griffin, I marvel at how times flies. It seems like only a few short years ago that Peg and I moved to Tallahassee and spent that first summer sodding a barren piece of hard clay off Velda Dairy Road...
Another Mountain Mist Experience Gary Griffin, Here we go again. Why is it that I always end up at this keyboard the week after the Mountain Mist 50K, feeling as if I need to put some thoughts down on paper? Maybe it is therapy. Maybe I am trying to...
One (More) Perfect Saturday Gary Griffin, One of the questions usually asked of those chosen for the “Featured Feet” portion of the Fleet Foot is for that person to describe “the perfect day.” I always enjoy that part because, as much as anything, it...
Graduation Day – the Lean Horse 100 Mile Run Gary Griffin, It all started back in the early 1990s. I had just begun to get my feet wet in the ultrarunning world when the idea of running 100 miles first struck. In many ways, that seemed far beyond...
