Hitting rock bottom is better than I thought it ever could be: Big Dog Backyard Ultra Mike Baker, Big Dog Backyard Ultra is a 4.166666 mile loop that you have a whole hour to finish. All you have to do is run a 14 minute mile. It’s easy. A whistle blows...
The Barkley Fall Classic: When Bad Things Happen to Stupid People Mike Baker, There is no telling you this story without telling how I blew off Terri. She’d invited me to run the last South Carolina edition of her classic 50k. It meant a lot that I’d...
DFL: Mike the Dog 50k/Marathon/1/2 Marathon Mike Baker, I have signed up for the Mike the Dog Marathon and 50k, every year Dana Stetson’s held the race and slept in almost every single time. That’s a lie. I wake up Sunday morning and consider...
Training for StupidThe Long Cane 50k/55 Miler – Parson’s Mountain, Abbeville, SC Mike Baker, Some races are wrapped in a story. Some races are more like real life. The night before the race, the race director Terri Hayes, her grandson and his...
Hot to Trot 8 Hour Fun Run and how it got that way Mike Baker, Last weekend I ran the Hot to Trot. The race is run on an arbitrary 1.189 mile loop at Sweetwater State Park in Lithia Springs, Georgia. A friend told me, the first time we drove up to race...
The Tiny Madness of Forgetting – Part 1 Mike Baker, I would rather run more than run fast. It took me six months to own this fact. It took watching my running partners drop away because they could not bear to slow down, could not stand the sight of...
