• Elbrus Race

    Thinking of Quandary This Month

    I’ve been chatting with my wife about my goals and plans for the coming year. One is to finally finish up Elbrus, Race or not. In discussing my plans in regards to finishing Elbrus, we thought that perhaps I should try to get in a once-a-month climb of Quandary, regardless of weather. Elbrus has atrocious weather you know. Cold and windy is the norm most summit days it seems. It’s only the non-summit days that you get beautiful blue skies. Since I was able to acclimatize so well for Orizaba in 2013, in spite of living here in Utah at the time, we considered that I could actually just test…

  • cycling

    Evolution of a Cyclist

    Chain Reaction Cycles posted this on Facebook recently, and I realized just how very true this is. Evolution of a #cyclist #cycling #stravacycling #wahoofitness #kickrcore pic.twitter.com/e8FPmkZG70 — Charles Miske (@tripeakprod) November 20, 2018 Powered by WPeMatico

  • Video

    Road To Elbrus Lambert Fall Hike

    In case you haven’t been in the loop, here’s a brief update while hiking with the mountain bike team at Lambert Park in Alpine Utah. Most of my work on outdoor training has been to get the new and improved https://www.hikercize.com up to speed for the new wave of trainees. If you want to focus on Elbrus Race join me at https://www.sevensummitsbody.com Powered by WPeMatico

  • Blog

    Message From Moab 18 August

    Sadly, it looks like Elbrus Race 2018 is out of the picture. Not enough time to get trained and peak, and get a visa, and get the High School Mountain Bike team I coach ready for the impending racing season. Powered by WPeMatico

  • Blog

    Road To Elbrus – Morgan in the Dark – 13 August

    When I first began this whole idea of returning to Elbrus Race, like I did in 2010 and 2013, I hadn’t been running at all. I’d even quit running on the treadmill. Training to be a mountain biking coach, in spite of my limited technical skills. I even get to ride with some really super fast kids, so it’s tough work for me. I’ve been so injured this past year that it’s been hard to recover and keep up a lot of the time. For those of you who don’t normally follow me, or my adventures, I entered Elbrus Race 2010, but was unable to continue after a lazy cook…

    Comments Off on Road To Elbrus – Morgan in the Dark – 13 August
  • Skyrunning

    Running Morgan in the Dark

    If you can call it running, sure. It’s at least getting in some vertical and testing out my ability to pull it off. I woke at 3:30 AM, while the world slept, and prepared to head out to do a not very popular Strava segment loosely called Morgan Blvd. Over the years it’s changed a bit, since there is a lot of overpriced, overlarge, overhyped housing development going on here on the far east side of north Utah County. On the one hand it’s nice because they added a little park and a paved rec path set down just a little bit further from the houses than before. On the…