CrossRoads Blog

I suppose anyone reading this blog now pretty much knows how ‘big of a deal’ running the Zane Grey Highline 50 was for me. But I think one of the reasons we do Blogs is not only to share with friends and families what we are up to, but also for our future generations to ‘know us’ as well. So with that, let me share again for the Great-Great Grandson – this was a big, big deal for me. I had this event ‘picked out’ over two years ago. Ever since I was looking at a list of the World’s toughest Ultra Runs and not only was this ranked as the hardest 50 Mile, it was basically in our backyard here in Arizona. Back then I was not doing 70-100 mile running weeks, heck that was about a month’s worth of miles, so it was an ‘out there’ goal. Back most importantly the reason I wanted to do this race was back those couple of years ago we were also going through some… let’s call it ‘times of great worry’ with your Great Grandfather and his brother. So it became one of those metal things. I kind of did this thing with my mind saying “okay, I am going to run that race and finish it and do everything until then to be able to make that happen, train hard, run hard, never give up, etc. and if I do everything will be okay – my boys will be fine”. As I type this I know it may not make a lot of sense. It’s hard to articulate. Worse, it likely seems extremely silly in that – of course my running a race can in reality have nothing to do with my children ‘being okay’. To that all I can say is, I know it’s silly, but when you are a parent there are times you realize there is nothing you can do or say to make your child safe or help them be happy. Just because you know this is reality, it doesn’t make it acceptable – you have to do something. Zane Grey was my something for two years…

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