So fun to read this. It was fun to track all you runners out there - and congratulations on a huge race! I love that graphic you created at the end. I will be trying that in future races. Such a cool approach to goal setting
That you thought through your values and shared them with us ahead of time allowed the team to buy in to them and help you execute! What an education and and honor to be part of.
Congratulations Jeff, not just for your race but all the work and preparations leading up to it. I really appreciate you sharing your process and approach too. I love that mantra and how you put it together. Definitely borrowing from your approach! Congrats again!
I loved reading this. Congrats on the race, but also on sharing your approach, your goals, and your self-evaluation. I really liked the graphic you created.
Congrats on a fantastic run Jeff. I think it is huge that you let yourself be supported without feeling guilty. This is something I really struggle with so I know what a huge victory it is for you to overcome that. Stoked for you!
Thank you! That especially means a lot coming from you too and accepting it may be hard for a lot of people. I think it’s a process goal achievement that I will keep carrying forward
I'm going to set similar goals for my next race! I think the notes on community resonate the most with me. I love community and value friendship but struggle to reach out, ask for help, etc. I completed my first 100 solo last week, and while I had a ton of support on the course due to racing locally, I know something I want to work on is accepting the offers from friends to pace or crew next time. I thought if I hadn't raced in my community at large, the experience may have been unbearably lonely, meaningless, and maybe even have led to DNF.
Thanks for sharing, what a great race for you and your crew (best dressed finish line ever), and I appreciate the rapid release of a podcast episode to reflect right away. PCT everyday!!!
This was such a great read and I love the idea of process goals and values. And the 3 you chose were so wonderful and glad you could achieve them. What a great race you had. also, gotta say, I loved watching you and Tara running together... 22 folks that know how to have fun :) Really enjoying your podcast as well... big congrats, hope the recovery goes well!
Congratulations brother on a strong performance, also being amongst the very few who have completed Cocodona 6 times till now. Finishing this race all the times you have competed is quite a difficult task in itself and you have run pretty good times after 2021. The grandiosity of completing it 6 times can't be understood by many and only you can come to the very feeling of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows you have to face to complete this damn thing.
Executing your own race plan on race day is quite difficult as we get too caught in our cognition regarding what's going around us and the amount of doubts that pop in our heads is in double & triple digits. While dealing with all of this, trust in our own selves is pretty hard to hold but you held up pretty strong and that's great to hear.
The way you ran the overall race, pushing in the back half and not slowing down and clawing your way by passing every runner shows how strong of an athlete you are over multi day races.
Great work brother, onwards & upwards from here. :)
Huge congratulations Jeff. You’re the only six-time finisher right? It was fun and inspiring to see posts of you & your crew especially dressed silly at the end. What was the fight about? I thought that was a joke. Also I’m curious if you felt in a good or bad way all the hype of media coverage as it has grown, or were you able to tune that out? Sorry one more question…would you consider a different 200 like the Mammoth?
There are 3 other 4 time finishers! And I think I would consider another 200. Maybe mammoth of Tor, but not a ton other apply to me. The media coverage is a lot and I think we might more expectations/rules/ or a runner’s guide to media at some point because they are all over! Between aravaipa coverage and all the other athletes filming their own run with a crew. It’s a lot but I do ok ignoring it
So fun to read this. It was fun to track all you runners out there - and congratulations on a huge race! I love that graphic you created at the end. I will be trying that in future races. Such a cool approach to goal setting
Thanks! I think if the approach is fun or at least interesting it actually makes us do it!
That you thought through your values and shared them with us ahead of time allowed the team to buy in to them and help you execute! What an education and and honor to be part of.
Congratulations Jeff, not just for your race but all the work and preparations leading up to it. I really appreciate you sharing your process and approach too. I love that mantra and how you put it together. Definitely borrowing from your approach! Congrats again!
Thanks! And that’s awesome, I was hoping it might prove useful for at least one person!
I loved reading this. Congrats on the race, but also on sharing your approach, your goals, and your self-evaluation. I really liked the graphic you created.
Congrats on a fantastic run Jeff. I think it is huge that you let yourself be supported without feeling guilty. This is something I really struggle with so I know what a huge victory it is for you to overcome that. Stoked for you!
Thank you! That especially means a lot coming from you too and accepting it may be hard for a lot of people. I think it’s a process goal achievement that I will keep carrying forward
I'm going to set similar goals for my next race! I think the notes on community resonate the most with me. I love community and value friendship but struggle to reach out, ask for help, etc. I completed my first 100 solo last week, and while I had a ton of support on the course due to racing locally, I know something I want to work on is accepting the offers from friends to pace or crew next time. I thought if I hadn't raced in my community at large, the experience may have been unbearably lonely, meaningless, and maybe even have led to DNF.
Thanks for sharing, what a great race for you and your crew (best dressed finish line ever), and I appreciate the rapid release of a podcast episode to reflect right away. PCT everyday!!!
This was such a great read and I love the idea of process goals and values. And the 3 you chose were so wonderful and glad you could achieve them. What a great race you had. also, gotta say, I loved watching you and Tara running together... 22 folks that know how to have fun :) Really enjoying your podcast as well... big congrats, hope the recovery goes well!
Congratulations brother on a strong performance, also being amongst the very few who have completed Cocodona 6 times till now. Finishing this race all the times you have competed is quite a difficult task in itself and you have run pretty good times after 2021. The grandiosity of completing it 6 times can't be understood by many and only you can come to the very feeling of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows you have to face to complete this damn thing.
Executing your own race plan on race day is quite difficult as we get too caught in our cognition regarding what's going around us and the amount of doubts that pop in our heads is in double & triple digits. While dealing with all of this, trust in our own selves is pretty hard to hold but you held up pretty strong and that's great to hear.
The way you ran the overall race, pushing in the back half and not slowing down and clawing your way by passing every runner shows how strong of an athlete you are over multi day races.
Great work brother, onwards & upwards from here. :)
Huge congratulations Jeff. You’re the only six-time finisher right? It was fun and inspiring to see posts of you & your crew especially dressed silly at the end. What was the fight about? I thought that was a joke. Also I’m curious if you felt in a good or bad way all the hype of media coverage as it has grown, or were you able to tune that out? Sorry one more question…would you consider a different 200 like the Mammoth?
There are 3 other 4 time finishers! And I think I would consider another 200. Maybe mammoth of Tor, but not a ton other apply to me. The media coverage is a lot and I think we might more expectations/rules/ or a runner’s guide to media at some point because they are all over! Between aravaipa coverage and all the other athletes filming their own run with a crew. It’s a lot but I do ok ignoring it