Posts by Don – T1Determined

Dealing with the unexpected on your Big Run isn’t just about flexibility. It can mean the difference between finishing and not finishing.

12 thoughts for how to deal with a DNF, move forward from failure & intelligently cut your losses.

Running in rain, cold and wind can be absolutely miserable if you don’t prep for it. Here are my tips.

Even if your big run starts on the first day of your retirement at no day or time in particular, with ballcap and water bottle in hand, sooner or later you’re going to have to deal with the fact that it will take many days to travel almost 3000 miles, and you’ll have to eat,…

I love that Pete Kostelnick got up at 3 a.m. and averaged 70+ miles/day at a sub-9-minute pace when he set the world record for the fastest run across the USA. But that’s not me. My only “superpowers” are persistence and determination. So I’m writing this post to help others like me figure out their…

Type 1 diabetic ultrarunner talks about the physical and mental demands of transcontinental runs.

Some of the thoughts I’ve had about doing a transcontinental run during the time of COVID, and how we’ve adjusted protocols for lodging and more.

Simple—but not easy. It probably comes as no surprise that having to pause–emphasis on PAUSE, not stop–a 100-day run across the USA that had been in the planning stages for nearly a year is no easy decision. On March 23, 2020, after 51 days and 1261 miles on the road, my wife Leslie and I…

A Fast and Long Day On day 10 of my #T1Determined Type 1 Diabetes Run Across Texas, I had a little over 300 miles behind me. I had just finished a 41-mile day running on TX-302, a busy oilfield road that connects the tiny town of Kermit, TX with Odessa. I had run a fast…