Tag: old tom backyard

  • Q After Ultra

    Questions abound leading up to the race, but what happens afterwards? Here are some of the questions spinning through ultra runners’ minds on the day after the big race. With a nod to all my Old Tom Backyard friends who might be asking some of these questions today.

  • Old Tom Backyard Poster

    The day(s) of the Old Tom Backyard quickly approach, and maybe you, like me, are feeling all the waves of excitement and dread that come with this epic adventure. If you’d like to commemorate the race, or maybe point to the exact spot on the course where, after 47 or 25 or 2 yards you…

  • Old Tom Backyard

    Last year we went in unawares, most of us having never running a Backyard Ultra before (as my race plan might have suggested). This year, we’re smarter, though possibly not wiser. Old Tom Backyard enters its second year, and we look forward to nearly endless loops around the barns and through the woods, followed by…