This week I talk about my 2024 Hellbender 100 mile 9th place finish. The most pain I’ve ever been in running and the most I have ever learned from an ultra. The trails down there rock. Then I go thru the results from the first New England ultramarathon of the year, formerly the GAC Fat Ass 50k, now the TARC Yeti Trail Trot 50k. Finish off ranking my top three fruit. I didn’t mean to do bananas dirty like that.

0:00 Intro

3:45 Hellbender race and course info

10:48 Flying down and pre race stuff

21:55 Starting off

37:30 Hitting a wall / do I have to walk the last 40 miles in?

53:20 2024 Hellbender race results

58:05 TARC Yeti Trail Trot 50k Results

65:05 Top 3 favorite fruit

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Run Mountain Peaks Podcast – Episode 17This week I talk through my 2026 and long term running goals. Aim high, work hard and take the road less traveled. The man in the arena. Discuss not making Aravaipa's Northeast Racing Team. And then a Stranger Things update. Im only through Season 4, please dont spoil. (Is Season 5 ending good though?).00:00 Intro04:20 My long term runnning goals11:10 2026 running goals19:00 The man in the arena29:45 Aravaipa race team talk38:30 Brownville Deer Pantry38:50 Stranger Things talk51:35 Outro

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This week I talked about my Christmas being essentially canceled and then my spontaneous trip to the ER on Christmas Eve. Winter conditions rock right now and you should get on the trails while they are good. I go through my biggest training lessons learned from 2025. It was a great year for me but it did not all go how I planned and instead I adjusted and looking at it as building a bigger base for all things running. Stack lots of brick to eventually go higher or something like that. Charlie Brown Christmas rocks but everybody is so mean to him from the beginning to the end. Christmas shopping. Meat sweats. And what's next for Run Mountain Peaks in 2026.

00:00 Intro

04:45 Emergency room visit on Christmas Eve

20:40 Tecumseh 12/27 trip report

25:30 Biggest training lessons from 2025: Don't ego run for no reason37:50 Biggest training lessons from 2025: Stop avoiding your weaknesses

43:50 Biggest training lessons from 2025: Go even if you don't feel exactly where you want to be

46:20 Biggest training lesson from 2025: Consistency always wins (strength training + heat training)

50:30 Charlie Brown is a blockhead *cry face* and my favorite Christmas movies

53:45 Last minute Christmas shopping

55:20 Racing during the Holidays

56:30 Meat sweats

58:35 What's next for the podcast in 2026

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This week I go through each of the 48 new FKTs in the White Mountain National Forest that were established in 2025 and discuss some of the best and most competitive times. The trails in the northeast are gnarly and the racing scene is getting more and more competitive each year. You have to be fast, tough and good on steep, technical terrain to go after these times.
00:00 Intro04:52 Dirritisema FKT

14:30 White Mountains 100 FKT

17:50 White Mountains Double 100 Out & Back FKT

19:15 NH AT FKT

20:30 Flume and Liberty Loop FKT

22:00 Mahoosuc Traverse FKT

23:40 Lodge2dodge FKT

24:50 Pemidential FKT

26:15 Mt Hancock Loop FKT

27:40 Swan Song FKT

30:20 Grafton Loop FKT

31:20 Double Pemi FKT

33:20 Isolation FKT

33:50 Bald Peak and Artists Bluff FKT

35:45 Evans Notch Loop FKT

36:20 Carter Moriah Traverse Picnic FKT

37:25 Cannon and Kinsmans Loop FKT

38:05 Super Pemi FKT

38:25 Twins Bonds Traverse FKT

38:50 Carter Moriah Traverse Out and Back FKT

39:40 Eastern Peaks of Conway FKT

40:15 Owls Head FKT

40:50 Tilted Compass FKT

42:55 Easter White Mountains Triple Infinity Loop FKT

43:40 Mahoosuc Out-and-back FKT

43:50 Desolation Loop FKT

44:10 Not a Pemi Loop but a Loop in the Pemi FKT

45:10 Mahoosuc Picnic FKT

46:00 Cannon Round Trip FKT

46:30 Hale FKT

50: 20 Flume and Liberty Loop FKT

50:55 Slippery Brook - Baldface Loop FKT

51:15 Cohos Trail FKT

51:55 Appalachian Trail FKT

54:20 Outro#TrailRunning #Mountains #WhiteMountainNationalForest

Run Mountain Peaks Podcast – Episode 14

Discuss Ryan and I getting dominated by snow on the Osceolas (12/13 trip report). Recapped TARC winter fells 8, 32, and 40 mile results. Talked about my first winter Presi traverse 5 years ago and how I thought the Adams five peaks was actually Adams, Jefferson, Clay, Washington and the rest of Presi Traverse was going to be a piece of cake (wrong). Cutting down your own Christmas tree in the Whites seems fun and easy until you realize you are probably going to end up with a skimpy tree unless you really work for it. Fantasy football blues: fifth in the league in points scored but missing the playoffs. I'm on season 3 of Stranger Things and the bad guy is back somehow and Dustin, the hair guy, and the new girl just cracked the Russian code. Little motivation at the end.

00:00 Intro & Osceola's trip report

8:02 Mac n cheese update

12:15 TARC Winter Fells 8 mile, 32 mile, 40 mile results

22:05 First winter Presidential Traverse story

31:54 Cutting down a Christmas tree in the Whites42:15 Fantasy football blues

46:15 Stranger things update

55:35 Motivation minute and outro #TrailRunning #Mountains #WhiteMountainNationalForest

Run Mountain Peaks Podcast – Episode 13

Recapped my first hundred miler in 2023. Talked about the training leading up to it and stories from the race. Some thoughts about what to expect going into your first hundred miler and how good holding that buckle feels at the end. Did a trip report from Cannon Mountain (12/6). Previewed the Kraft vs. Annie's mac n' cheese taste test I will be conducting this week.00:00 Intro

2:00 Lead up to Jigger Johnson

15:00 Getting to the start line

55:00 Post race stuff

1:02:20 Mt. Cannon 12/6 trip report

1:06:00 Kraft vs. Annies preview

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Run Mountain Peaks Podcast – Episode 12

00:00 Intro

2:40 Mt. Ascutney Backyard ultra reaction

34:00 JFK 50 miler results

38:35 Training talk

49:20 Thanksgiving food is average

53:15 Moosilauke trip report

55:50 Deer season struggles

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Run Mountain Peaks Podcast – Episode 11

00:00 Intro

4:45 Winter footwear for trail running

25:00 Road and trail training shoes

29:15 Winter Strava segments

38:30 Winter FKTs

41:40 Surprise

43:00 Winter cross training

48:30 Motivation minute

53:00 Ku Fu Panda recap + tea talk

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