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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.

Spartan Race Stadium Series Miller Park Sprint

Entering the Miller Park Stadium I could sense that this was not like your ordinary Spartan Race. It was unlike

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Texas Spartan Sprint – Obstacle Racing for Runners

Another last minute trip that thankfully came together quite well thanks to Priceline.com’s Name Your Price feature and I was

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Colorado Spartan Sprint – Obstacle Heavy Racing

Another weekend and another Reebok Spartan Race event in the books. This time to get my obstacle racing fix I

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Indiana Spartan Sprint – Hardest Sprint Yet…

Founders Race Just a year ago a group of us Midwestern folk were pushing hard to bring a Spartan Race

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Indiana Spartan Race Founder’s Obstacle Race – The Perfect Holiday Gift

Obstacle Race season is coming to an end for me this weekend.  Friday night I will be heading down to

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Motivation from Buddha

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures tha the final victory

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Extra! Extra! Daily Herald Article Posted

After waiting over a month for the article to be published it’s finally here and what great timing after this

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