You Gotta Keep the Devil Way Down In the Hole Mike Baker, My real life happens on dirt, the narrow slip of time I spend haunting trails in the morning half-light is all that counts for me. All the rest is what is required. All the rest is a dream I...
Getting What We Paid For and the Other Lies We Tell Ourselves:Ancient Oaks 100 Miler – 2014 Mike Baker, The Ancient Oaks 100 Miler is a 3.46-mile loop through the Enchanted Forest Park in Titusville, Florida. You run it 29 times, crossing five timing mats that...
Big’s Backyard Ultra 2014 or My Death March toward Nirvana Mike Baker, The rural south is littered with dogs what generally get called red bulls because they’re red and built big like trucks. They’re a mix of whatever came along that day and took a fancy...
Becoming the Stonecutter Mike Baker, I ran the Barkley Fall Classic this year. It bothers me greatly that it might be easier at 38 miles long than one 20 mile loop at the Barkley Marathons. It bothers me greatly that it might be harder and no one’s...
A Perfect Day in a Deadly World Mike Baker, I got out of my car and it was already hot. It must have been cold in other places but it was still Summer here. I don’t mean calendar Summer. I mean real Summer, where the tiniest remnant of the night’s cool...
The Georgia Death Race and the Hot to Trot 8 Hour Race: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. — Mike Tyson Mike Baker, I come from a family of stone cold losers but that ain’t nothing to scoff at and it ain’t bad neither. They’re...