Kent’s Blog: The inspiration is free – Rhonda-Marie Avery’s Envisions Expedition
I have a friend named Rhonda-Marie Avery. We haven’t been friends for long, but she treats me like I’ve known her my whole life. Along with being my friend, she’s […]
Category Archives: The Long Run – Kent’s Blog
Kent wanted a place to share some of his inner most secrets, and deepest feelings. The Long Run is his personal outlet to the internet!
Kent’s Blog: Paddle Niagara Stand Up Paddleboarding
I live in an area surrounded by water. Niagara is bounded by two of the Great Lakes and crisscrossed with waterways that are like veins connecting them. What I have […]
Kent’s Blog – All in the details or wing it?
Do you meticulously prepare for your races, or do you take a wait and see approach? I am talking about the non-training preparation, the logistics of ultra racing. I am […]
Superior Fall Trail Races – Sawtooth 100 Mile
I’ve dotted the i’s and crossed the final t in my 2014 racing plan. I’ve registered for the Superior Trail Races Sawtooth 100 Mile in Northern Minnesota on September 5-6. […]
Kent’s Blog – Green tinted glasses
I am coming at you live from Ontario (as almost always,) where we have been locked in winter’s icy grips for what seems like an eternity. I’m not a climatologist, […]
Kent’s Blog – Running on Vacation
I just got back from a nice warm reprieve from the frosty winter we’ve been having in Southern Ontario. I took my kids down to Arizona where my parents spend […]
Kent’s Blog: From snow to sand – off to race in the desert
In just over two weeks, I will be running the Aravaipa Running 50K Coldwater Rumble Trail Race in Goodyear, AZ (outside Phoenix). There are also 100M, 50M, 20M, 20K, and […]
Kent’s Blog: Winter Crosstraining – Snowshoeing
We had a pretty serious (for Southern Ontario) snowstorm last night, that left my ‘hood covered in a blanket of beautiful white snow. Normally I would be excited about breaking […]
Down goes the gauntlet, its 100 miler time
I’ve known that sometime in my life I would try to run a 100 mile ultra running race ever since I decided to start training for my first 50K. I’ve […]
Maybe “I could have done more” is just enough…
It is less than a week to go until my second 50 Miler, the Superior 50 Mile Fall Trail Race, and I have been doing the usual pre-race “should have, […]
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