Endurance and Sustainability

       Starting today, I'm taking this blog into a life-changing shift of perspective--because I think that's what all of humanity w...

As the title of this blog says, I'm very interested in the connections between our endurance as individual humans and the long-run susta...

     I've been caught up in something that has given me a whole new perspective on the nature of human endurance.  Although I have run 5...

     About three years ago, when I finished writing a book on the adventure of running America's largest ultramarathon, I titled the man...

Running with my 2-year-old grandson, Josh, has been a great revelation.   It has confirmed, for me, how we humans, out of all the millio...

Remember the famous story (and later the movie) of that title— Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner ?   As a kid, I was always able to...

Long-distance runners are a dogged breed, probably tracing to our genetic heritage as persistence hunters.   For some, that doggedness i...