There are some things in life that are really obnoxious and annoying. Car dealer commercials. A dog that’s left outside and barks for hours on end early in the morning or late at night. Politicians who will promise anything to get elected. Computerized telemarketing calls on your cell phone. People who make an appointment then [...] Read more »

Sean Melican lives in Bordentown, New Jersey. On October 11, 2015 he became an ultramarathon finisher by completing the Sloppy Cuckoo 12 hour race in Philadelphia, where he was able to go 40 miles. Congratulations Sean!

Fun fact: In training for this race, Sean got a stress fracture in his leg. Not knowing it was a fracture, he just kept training and running until it healed.

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Last week I told you about how my backup process saved all of my critical data twice in the last couple of months. One of those backups is called a system image backup and it saves EVERYTHING on your hard drive. As a result, that backup can be pretty big. Today we’ll talk about an [...] Read more »

Frank Evans lives in Lake Sherwood, Missouri. He recently finished the Hennepin Hundred 100-mile ultramarathon in Sterling, Illinois as his FIRST 100-miler. Congratulations Frank!

Fun fact: Frank's crew was his girlfriend, Sonya. She did a great job in helping him get to the finish line - especially since this was her first time crewing!

Bonus: In the last half of the race, Frank got a monster blister on the ball of his right foot. I didn't post the picture to be seen by default, since some people are a bit squeamish about that. If you want to see it, you can click here.

Yes, here I am again preaching to you about backing up your computer. But this time, it’s from a personal point of view and it has to do with my own primary desktop computer. I’ve had two different, major problems in the last two months so I wanted to tell you about what happened and [...] Read more »

Michelle Adamson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. On September 26, 2015 she completed the North Face Endurance Challenge Utah 50k and became an ultramarathon finisher. Congratulations Michelle!

Fun fact: Michelle was able to get through this race partly because of her high tolerance for pain. During the interview she talks about a time when she fell during a run and later gave herself stitches. That's pretty hardcore!

If no one ever opened a scam/spam email, the spammers would stop sending them. If you have checked your spam folder lately, you know that the flow of spam doesn’t seem to have slowed down much. One reason I like Gmail is that their excellent spam filters keep that garbage out of my inbox. But [...] Read more »

Anna Paxton lives in Sheffield, UK. On August 27, 2015 she completed the OCC (Orsieres-Champex-Chamonix) 53k ultramarathon, which is part of the UTMB ultra trail race series. This race starts in Switzerland and ends in France, and was her first ultra so she is now an ultrafinisher. Congratulations Anna!

Fun fact: to train for this race, Anna went on a 9-day, 170km solo hike through 3 countries. The butterfly shown in the picture was her traveling companion for a couple of miles during that trek.

You can find out more about Anna and her love of exploring and the outdoors over at her blog: http://alpsoutdoorslife.com/

Every day, there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of new malicious websites coming into existence on the internet. It’s very common now, when you do a Google search, for many of the search results to be websites that you should definitely not click on. You’d think Google would have that figured out by now, so that [...] Read more »

Ryland Kirzinger lives in Calgary, Albert, Canada. On September 19, 2015 he finished the Golden Ultra 58k (36 miles) ultramarathon in Golden, British Columbia and became an ultramarathon finisher. Congratulations Ryland!

Fun fact: This was not only Ryland's first ultramarathon, it was also the first ultra experience for his crew, Murray and Kathleen. They did a great job and seemed to know exactly what he needed - perhaps because they are Ryland's parents!