[journal] 2026 Boulderthon Race Report

Not too shabby, if also not quite what I hoped when I started this build. Assumed audience: Folks who like reading about endurance sports and training. Back at the end of September, I ran the Boulderthon Marathon as my fall goal race — my third consecutive year participating somehow in the Boulderthon event. As always, the numbers up front: Official time: 2:53:36 (6:37/mile) Place: 5/2,588 overall 5/1,742 among men 1/202 among men 35 – 39 Yep, you’re reading that right: I won my age group and placed 5th overall! I also ran it a fair bit slower than I had hoped going into the season. Training The main interesting change this season from previous seasons was nutrition: I have been using Fuelin for nutrition tracking and “coaching” since early summer. Readers of previous write-ups may recall my appreciation for Foodnoms. I still like Foodnoms better as a tracking app, but it doesn’t have the endurance athlete-specific guidance that Fuelin does. I have an open and repeated request to the…