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Crested Butte Ultra 50-miler

I’ve been chasing a 50-miler since 2016 and it felt great to finally slay this dragon at the Crested Butte Ultra on October 1, 2022.

I finished the 50 miles, which featured 8,300 ft of elevation gain, in 13:51:07 and placed 51st out of the 61 runners who finished the race. By my count there were about 111 runners registered for the 50-miler, which means about 50 runners did not finish.

It was a long, brutal, beautiful day – highlighted by a nasty storm that ripped through the course in the early afternoon – and the craziest race I’ve done to date. I was just thankful to finish the race in one piece before the cutoff time at 9pm; I finished at about 7:50pm.

Colorado Trail Segments 11-14

Five days and 91 miles in the wilderness alone

This article has three sections: (1) hike recap, (2) summary of lessons learned, and (3) gear list.

2022 Goals

This article lays out the nine things I want to accomplish and habits I want to build in 2022.

Over the past few years my annual goal-setting strategy has shifted from spazzing out over bucket list items and finish lines (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018), to a much healthier, deeper, and more sustainable focus on behavioral goals (2019, 2020 and 2021).

In other words, it’s less about the endings, outcomes and payoffs, and more about the journey and the type of person you become in the process.

2021 Recap

My personal annual report for 2021 is broken down into the following sections:

1. Year in review
2. Goals results
3. Media diet (Principles, News, Podcasts, and Books I read in 2021)
4. Inspiration (Pick up the extra weight; Keep yourself mystified; Meaning contagion; New connections to mythology mobility; Hiking is not about the views; Only positive empty gestures allowed; and Creativity requires detailed planning)

Colorado Trail Segments 2-10

An eight-day, 160-mile through-hike into the wilderness alone

First step: go into the wilderness alone.

That was one of the notes I jotted down in 2019 when I read The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, by David Brooks. The message ties to the book’s fifth chapter, entitled “The Wilderness,” where Brooks writes: