Rialp Matxicots 2024: Robs First European Race
What is Rialp Matxicots? Rialp Matxicots (pronounced Mat-Chee-Cot) is a trail race series that takes place in the Catalan Pyrenees region of Spain, about 140 miles north of Barcelona. The race is held in the tiny town of Rialp which has a population of around 600 people. Matxicots puts on 3 different race distances: a […]
They Don’t Call it Grand for Nothing
A Day Late and a Grand (Teton) Short I won’t go into too much detail because I covered it in my other post What the Tetons Mean to Me (https://robrunsround.com/what-the-tetons-mean-to-me/), but the Tetons have a very special place in my heart. The TLDR on that article goes something like this: in the summer of 2016 […]
White Rim: Why Bike It When You Can Run It?
A Tale of Being Dumb Enough to Run 38 Miles in Canyonlands National Park 2024 adventure season is finally upon us in Colorado now that the temps are rising and these pesky snow storms are slowly disappearing. About two months ago my buddy Clay reached out and proposed some ideas for adventures in May. A […]
Scotland: Half City, Half Mountains, One Whole Rob
4 Days in Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotch Tasting, and Morning Jaunts up Arthur’s Seat First Day: Glenkichie Scotch Tasting, Edinburgh Castle Tour, The Witchery Restaurant Kait, her dad, and I arrived in Edinburgh the morning after the Notre Dame football game on a stupid early flight that had us leaving our cozy hotel beds before […]
Touring the Emerald Isle in 11 Days
Days 1-4: Galway, Inishmore, and Kylemore Abbey/Diamond Hill (Connemara National Park) Kaitlin and I arrived in Dublin on August 17th following 14 hours of flying from Boise. We hit the ground running and immediately drove 3 hours to Galway to get our trip started off right in our stick-shift hatchback Dacia Duster. Despite a few […]
Happy 70th Birthday Dad
Today is my father’s 70th birthday. I realize that I tend to post more about my mom than I do my dad. I often feel this isn’t fair to him. I’ve always had a more complicated relationship with my father. For a long time, I felt that the only things my dad and I had […]
Mahoosuc Traverse Recap- A Taker of Souls
Me+New England: A Relationship History Every single summer of my life I’ve travelled to Rhode Island for my annual family “picnic”. The picnic is a family reunion of sorts that my family on my moms’ side gets together for the last Sunday in July every year. We assemble at my grandmas house- otherwise known as […]
Palisades Ultra Trail 50 Mile Race Recap
Choosing a race schedule this summer was tricky and largely dictated travel by plans and one races’s proximity to the next. After deciding to race Boise potato marathon on on May 13th, I wanted to make sure I had at least a month to recover and build for each of the following races. This lead me […]
Ten Years Without My Brother
My Big Brother Billy My brother Billy was a goofy kid. Anyone who knew him as a kid knows that he was endlessly playful. Pictures from our childhood exemplify his playfulness. He was always smiling, making faces, and creating laughter wherever he went. He had many loves. Some of his loves included elaborate facial expressions, […]
Why Is Change So Damn Hard? pt 1
Difficulty Picturing Our Future Selves Logically, I know that what people regret most often as they are close to dying are the actions they didn’t take rather than the ones that they did. People are more likely to regret not having quit their job to start a business, asking that pretty girl out, or moving […]