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The finish line is so close - "only" 1 week and 185 miles away. After weeks of early alarms and miles and miles on winding backroads, we...

Woohoo!! It's been 3 weeks of running, and we are past the halfway mark! In less than two weeks, Shan will have crossed all 169 towns,...

📝 Shan ran 7 days last week, covering another ~230 miles and 33 towns. Along the way, we collected more medals, including a special “pay...

Where to find Shan 9/15 - 9/21 🙌 Shan covered 201.5 miles, 32 towns, and raised more than $ 1,100 during the first week of Run169M4M....

In just two weeks - on Monday, September 8th - Shan will set off on his run through all 169 Connecticut towns (Run169M4M)  to support...

Running 169 CT Towns for Medals4Mettle

We made it to California! Only one more state to go. We also were not quite halfway, just about 1,000 miles to Mexico. Oregon couldn't...

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after...

And here we are again! Reliving another bike/run expedition, this one along the beautiful and scenic Pacific Coast loosely following the...

Vermont was hit with heavy rainfall and flooding shortly after Shan's run. The damage was devastating and will take years to recover and...

Route 100 meanders 200ish miles through Vermont from Canada to Massachusetts. It's a scenic road that passes through tons of cute little...

Plans are slowly coming together for our Pacific Coast Expedition to benefit the Adventure Cycling Association (ACA). Thanks to the ACA's...

Seventeen years ago I was taking a red-eye flight to Chicago from Miami after a 3-day music festival. I was looking for something to read...

Ultra runners don't just like to run - they need to run. It doesn't matter if they're on vacation, recovering from a race, or juggling a...

Our East Coast Greenway Expedition feels so far away! Luckily, we've been able to relive the experience through invited speaker...

Quick Recap of the last 8 days of our Expedition (6/25 - 7/2) Our journey through Maine was hectic and exciting and beautiful. We had a...

Quick Recap of Week 10 (6/18 - 6/24) We crossed 4 state lines in week 10, making our way through Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New...

Quick Recap of Week 9 Wow. Week 9 was amazing. We made our way to Cranford on Saturday, stopping at the Middlesex County Fair along the...

Quick Recap of Week 8 (6/4 - 6/10): We started our week in Annapolis and made our way through Maryland and Delaware and into New Jersey. ...