After spending another great weekend in this southern Oregon town, I made a few observations.  Here are the top ten indicators you might be from Ashland.
10. You put a Shakespeare quote on your race shirts - Lord, what fools these mortals be!
9. You don’t think Granite St is a hill.
8. You own a house with [...]

This post has little to do with running, but, with my wife in Hawaii soaking up the sun and hanging out with my outlaws, I’ve had a little time to reflect on why she has put up with me for 23 years of marriage plus three years living in sin.  So this is what I’ve [...]

I’m sure you’d rather read about the training secrets of guys like Hal and Graham who’ve actually won WS, but since neither of them is likely to reveal his secrets (although lc did get a handful of gems this weekend from Hal) this will have to do for now.  Below are ten WS training secrets [...]

I went down to Ashland this past weekend to run the Pear Blossom 10 miler in Medford.  These are some of the things I learned.

Even with decapitations and blood flying all over I can still fall asleep in the front row of MacBeth.
Elevators in two-story houses are cool.
SLF is one skinny little …
The Co-Op is [...]

Rogue Valley Runners in Ashland, Oregon is arguably the capitol of ultrarunning in the US these days.  Sorry Seattle Running Company and Auburn Running Company, but have you seen the caravan of ultrarunning gypsies that owner Hal Koerner has assembled down there?  Let’s see, there’s Ian Torrence, Erik Skaggs, Kyle Skaggs, Tony Krupicka, and the [...]

You ever wonder why Tim Twietmeyer, the five-time champion with 25 sub-24-hour finishes, including a streak of 15 consecutive top-five finishes, and now president of the board, retired from racing Western States 100 in 2006?  Here are the top ten reasons.
10. He ran out of belts for any new silver buckles.
9. So he can come [...]

10. Your crew replaced your Aleve with the other blue pills, and, while it worked as a cooling mechanism, the priapism left little blood for the stomach or leg muscles.
9. You got lost somewhere around Chicken Hawk Rd (sorry lc).
8. You’re old.
7. You couldn’t tell if you were peeing blood or if there was simply [...]

10. You wake up with a puddle of drool on your pillow and 24 empty beer bottles on the floor.
9. You have an automatic email filter that rejects anything that doesn’t contain “AJW.”
8. You find a credit card receipt for the Georgetown Hotel for $585.
7. There’s three feet of snow in your front yard.
6. When [...]