Climbing and Running
7 marathons. 7 continents. 7 years.
A New Record – 55.89 Miles on New Year’s Eve
January 1, 2012 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
I wasn’t having any fun. Seven hours into the race and I had already run about 35 miles, but there were over five hours to go and I was cramping. My legs were dead, it was getting cold, my stomach wanted to heave, and I was wondering what the hell I was doing running when [...]
Ten Years (and counting)
December 12, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
My legs were cramping and I had two immense blister clusters on each foot. The stomach wasn’t great and I had not done nearly enough training miles. I felt a lot of internal pressure to at least finish the Tucson Marathon since this would be 10 consecutive years of starting and finishing at least one [...]
The Last Mile
October 30, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
With about one mile to go I decided that I was going to turn on the after-burners and try to pass as many runners as I could – and not get passed by anyone else. There was nothing to say that I would be successful and there was no ribbon or PR on the line [...]
Tragedy on the Mountain
June 5, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · 2 Comments
“Falling!!!”. When I heard this word shouted from my climbing companion who was falling downhill headfirst into a massive crevasse on Mt. Baker in September 2006, I had a couple of seconds to get my ice-axe jammed into the ice above me into a classic self-arrest position that we had just learned a few days [...]
Monumental California Marathon
December 6, 2010 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
The wake up call at 4am was both unwelcome and was not needed to wake me up as I had a typical restless night before a marathon. The clothes were hung with care, the number pinned to the shirt, timing chip secured to the shoe, and everything needed laid nearby. With the bus coming at [...]
Mount Whitney Update Day One
March 12, 2009 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
I had a plan to complete a trifecta of the highest mountains in North America (Denali), South America (Aconcagua) and Continental US (Whitney). The first two were completed and summited in 2008 and Whitney at 14, 505′ could have easily been climbed in the summer – without attempting a winter assault. But that would have [...]
Good to Great – and Climbing
February 24, 2009 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
I just read an interview with “management guru” Jim Collins (who wrote Built to Last and Good to Great) where he compares management and leadership of companies to climbing. Jim has his own 30-year amazing record of rock climbing some of the most famous and hardest places of the world and he often writes about [...]
The Post-Denali Diet
August 1, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
The most discussed topic on the mountain, besides when we will summit, is about food. We fantasize about different meals that we will eat when we return and savor in our brains the different tastes and textures of food. This is all understandable given that we are eating chocolate, nuts, packaged crackers and jerkey and [...]
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