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Death Notes

Lessons written in scar tissue. Truths forged in failure.
This is where the hard-earned wisdom lives.

This is where I keep the pages from a life shaped by suffering—some chosen, some not.

What started as a goal to finish a race became something else. A practice. A way to sharpen the mind through pain, to test ideas in real-time. The posts here aren’t written from the safety of hindsight, they’re forged in the middle of it all: broken gear, broken plans, and moments that broke me open.

You’ll find reflections grounded in Stoicism, endurance, failure, and whatever clarity I could scrape together along the way. It’s not about heroics. It’s about showing up, again and again, until the lessons stick.

If you’re looking for inspiration, you might find some. But mostly, you’ll find truth.

The human who races with this blog shall neither be the same… nor sane.

The Human Death Race Documentary

When I was at the Winter Death Race this year covering for Obstacle Racing Magazine there was a film crew there,

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Shoulder Surgery Recovery: Becoming ME Again

November 30th I went into out-patient surgery Downtown, Chicago. Under the care of Dr. Mark Bowen I was given a

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Press Release: Bad Boyz of OCR Calendar

Press Release January 13, 2013 From: The Unholy Trio of OCR A few weeks ago Spartan Race released their Spartan

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Surgery Recovery: Starting Over

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted anything and for good reason too.  As some of you may know I

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EPIC Racing Arena – Citizen’s Elect Video Submission

EPIC Racing Arena, has requested that elite racers wanting to get a leg up in being selected to race in

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Thoughts Before the First Marathon Distance Obstacle Race

A mountain out in the beautiful land of Vermont awaits. It’s exact location is at the Killington Ski Resort. This

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News Update: Getting Back to the Obstacle Races

Since the Death Race I have been on a bit of an adventure/obstacle race hiatus with the exception of that

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Legend of the Death Race – Part 11: Never Quit, Never Surrender

Here we were back at Riverside Farm for the last challenge.  To begin you needed to have a ticket, if

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Legend of the Death Race – Part 10: Sleepyhead

Happily waiting for us at Death Race HQ was Joe, and a few others. You could see they were surprised

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Legend of the Death Race – Part 9: And We’ll Keep on Fighting Til the End

Being out on the mountain, living, surviving, being physically and mentally challenged, this is what life is about. From chaos,

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