← THE JOURNALTRAINING
4.2
After my first marathon, I thought the next step would be getting faster. Instead, running started taking me somewhere completely different.
- DATE
- AUG 2026
- LOCATION
- Northern California
- TRAINING
- ROAD → TRAIL
After OC
Not necessarily the marathon workouts themselves, but the structure that came with them.
There was still more there
And the more time I spent in the mountains, the more interesting running started to become.
EL CAPITAN / YOSEMITE
Seventeen miles in Yosemite
It was the hardest trail any of us had done.
EL CAPITAN / YOSEMITEN ↑
- MI / DISTANCE
- 15.93
- FT ↑ / ASCENT
- 5,427
ELEVATION / FT7,604 FT HIGH
- MOVING TIME
- 8:03:31
- ELAPSED TIME
- 8:55:19
Then came Diablo
The engine still mattered.
But the engine wasn't enough anymore.
Learning a different sport
The fire from OC
But I don't think of it as the destination.
I think of it as a benchmark.
TRAINING / 4.2ROAD → TRAIL
A different direction
The marathon showed me what training could produce.
The trails showed me how much more there was to explore.