The Stubborn Tortoise

Liza Howard is one of the kindest, most down-to-earth ultrarunners you will ever meet,. She wins races but is humble about it. She also coaches runners to reach their goals. She also has a couple of o...

6 Mar 202345min

Vincent Antunez was sitting on a mountaintop in Afghanistan when the idea for Trail Toes foot creme came to him. The accomplished ultrarunner was deployed there at the time and was devising ways to so...

28 Feb 20231h 16min

I spent six hours on Saturday running out .75 miles to a traffic cone that I named Bob and then back to the start over and over again. I was one of the slackers by comparison to some of my friends who...

20 Feb 202324min

Yeah, so today is my birthday. It is marked by a morning spent helping at a road relay race. Yesterday, I made some new trail friends. Friday, things got heavy. I had a therapy appointment on Thursday...

12 Feb 202320min

This past week's icy/wet/cold weather made me move my workouts indoors. I did some indoor cycling, yoga, Pilates and weights. I wasn't entirely idle. I did do a 5-miler on Sunday afternoon that wasn't...

5 Feb 202315min

I am proud to say that had P.J. not accepted my invitation to volunteer with me at the J&J Trail Running Reunion in September 2016, he may not have become a part-owner of Tejas Trails. He immediately ...

29 Jan 20231h 29min

San Antonians Liza Howard, Thomas Bowling and Chris Russell join me to talk about The Band of Runners. This is a national group that caters to veterans and their surviving family members to empower th...

22 Jan 202351min

My DNF at Snowdrop hit me harder than I expected. I think some of it is because I rejected what I'd done in training and just winged it. No wonder I was a mess. It's a stupid mistake and one I have le...

16 Jan 202322min