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All the articles I've posted.

• Death Race by the Numbers

  19 Jun, 2012

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  Total time to finish: 60 hours, 23 minutes Place: 2nd female Total approximate distance covered: 50-70 miles (depending on who you talk to) Clif bar

• The Betrayal Has Begun

  10 Jun, 2012

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  When I signed up for the Death Race back in December, I remember talking to a previous Death Race finisher and asking about the race. “What is it?”

• Crossfit + Obstacles = Combine Love

  24 May, 2012

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  When you take three of my current obsessions (Crossfit, obstacles, and hills) and roll them up into one race, I may start foaming at the mouth out o

• S.E.R.E. Urban: Chicago is a Dangerous Place

  14 May, 2012

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  I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out practical uses for my shiny new KA-Bar,* spoils of being crowned “Top Team” at S.E.R.E. Chicago th

• Used and Abused: The Essentials

  15 Apr, 2012

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  My body hates me. There isn’t a day where I’m not nursing some type of sore muscle, blister, injury, or rash of some sort (yum). If you know me, you

• Everyday I’m Shufflin’

  20 Mar, 2012

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  I posed the question this past weekend: “Which is harder to describe, the Death Race or a GoRuck Challenge?” Obviously, to the average person, both

• Winter Death Race: FAQ’s

  6 Mar, 2012

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  Post-Winter Death Race, I’ve received tons of questions about the race, my experience, and life in general. I do not claim any special DR knowledge–

• 32 hours and 21 minutes

  6 Mar, 2012

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  A stump almost broke me. I was finished chopping my wood and stacking it, except for this bastard of a stump about 3 feet in diameter, knotted to he

• These races should be everything I hate

  24 Feb, 2012

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  T-minus one week til Winter Death Race. And I feel like I’m missing something. It’s this weird nagging feeling, that something isn’t exactly right.

• Adventures in Urban Training: Wood Chopping

  9 Feb, 2012

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  The Winter Death Race is three weeks away. I have never swung an axe. Now would be about the time to panic, no? There is one thing, and only one thi

• Cashews, Leadership, and Lessons Learned

  1 Feb, 2012

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  [Fair warning: this post may be full of typos and grammatical errors. I’m tired. I’m freakin’ tired. 15+ hour work days, pre- and post-S.E.R.E., hav

• Mission: Unknown

  20 Jan, 2012

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  If you looked up the definition of “creature of habit,” I would be highly surprised if there wasn’t a picture of me sitting there. My alarm goes off

• Volenti non fit injuria

  13 Jan, 2012

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  To the consenting [willing], no injury is done. In the law, the Latin maxim of “volenti non fit injuria” is typically used as a defense in a tort ac

• On Girl Crushes and the Interwebs

  8 Jan, 2012

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  A tangential conversation that took place between my girlfriend and I a few weeks before WTM: GF: “So how are you getting out there?” Me: “We’re dri

• Adventures in Urban Training: Hills

  2 Jan, 2012

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  I live in the middle of a concrete jungle. Picture downtown Chicago, and insert me right there. I live on the 15th floor of a 24-story condo buildin

• The Ten Commandments of World’s Toughest Mudder

  28 Dec, 2011

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  (1) Thou shall respect the power of neoprene All stripping down was done separately While there were many different types of crazy at WTM, it quickly became apparent that many people underestimated…