Fleet Feet Race Team Announcement!!!

Some very exciting news! The Adams and Fleet Feet have asked me to join the Fleet Feet Race Team. Endurance Sports has been a faithful sponsor and superb partner but is going through some transitions and the time seemed right and I have prayerfully and thankfully accepted.

My training partner, big dawg @Ashly Dewberry will be on FF Race Team along with a few other folks I have yet to meet but hear good things. I have known FF owner, Matt Adams since highschool. He was captain of the Brentwood Lax team when I was just a freshman middy, it was here that I got my first real taste of pain in athletics and liked it.  It is great to reconnect and run for a store that just does it right. The Team will be small with a focus on racing, fitness promotion and cultivating the FIRE in all who seek road, dirt, mud, rock and trail. It is ON.

God speed,
JMS

Friday Night Run

"I'll have 3 double expressos please." The barista opened her mouth, I jumped in and pointed to @Ashly Dewberry and Matt (the Dean) Vest and said, "In separate cups!" I mean what am I... crazy!?

We merry three headed out from the Franklin 5 Points Starbucks Friday at 430 pm. It was about 100 degrees. We planned to run the back roads to Grassland Middle which would be a 25m or so out and back. The coffee charged us up as we chattered at each other and ran fast dodging traffic. Labor day weekend brings 'em out of the woodwork. I had dropped water at the Old Natchez Trace/ Moran Rd turn. We guzzled water in the heat. I looked at Ashly- he looked good- fit- the fire seemed to be back and the injury now in the rearview mirror. Ash went back a different route for a solid 20m.

Matt and I ran out of sun shine on the way home. I had only a small blinking blue light on me to get us home. We ended the run at the Franklin Pub with a cold pint. 

The Time is Now

I am finally feeling whole more than a month after the Tahoe 100 (report still to come). This morning I flew over the hills of Percy Warner with ease and fire. I am back. I am ready to reload and I am super stoked to have @Ashly Dewberry back in action, albeit a step or two slower than he'd like to be but REGARDLESS.

It is TIME TO GET DOWN! Nashville's ultra scene is starting to bubble and grow- the FF Dirtbags, Highland  Rim Ultra Club, stud company @swiftwick blowing up on the race scene, a new store opening up soon (Nashville Running Club). Everything is falling in place for Greater Nashville to become a true ultra hive.

So- ultra or 5k... I urge you to throw off all your "cannots" and take on something that SCARES YOU a little this coming season. This is where life gets sweet and as Ashly would say "now you're living!"

God speed!!!

The Reset Button

The Tahoe Rim Trail 100 is now complete and behind me. I have just returned from a week of sun and fun with family in Gulf Shores where I melted into a buttery ball of relaxation. The dings are healed up now and I have regained feeling in most of my toes. Seven days with no schedule and time with my awesome family has left me well... happy, happy and rusty.

We've got some fun to have!

I ran most days but no more than 4 or 5 miles while I was there and really in an effort to feel ok about the amount of calories I planned to consume that day.  So Sunday I got my trail shoes and hit Bowie for an eight miler with some tempo miles. My mind started creeping forward to potential upcoming races.

I am ready to get back to the trails. This time I will change up my approach. This is still coming into focus.

Oh, and I am finalizing my TRT 100 "report"... soon come Mon!