10/9-10/10: 33h 26m 39s The Grand Canyon took my breath away. Literally. 10/9/21 My 2:45 am alarm went off after only getting 4 hours of sleep that night after a long travel day. I was in such a deep sleep I woke up startled and confused as to where I was and what I was doing. “Oh yeah. Grand Canyon. Don’t snooze. Get up! You have to run!” My inner dialogue had to convince me to just do and not start thinking. Morning anxiety can push me to the brink of bailing, but if I get

I am 6 days away from what will be my biggest athletic effort to date. I intend to cross the Grand Canyon in a self supported effort 4 times. This is known as rim2rim2rim2rim2rim (R5). My intent is to set a new FKT record (fastest known time) and beat the current record of 40ish hours. This endeavor will be somewhere between 90-100 miles with more elevation gain than I care to even figure out. I have never run further than 100km and I have not run further than ~50 miles self