Why We Run and/or Ruck 9.11 Miles

Five years at Cooper's Landing

Somebody asks it every year. Usually at the starting line, usually with a nervous laugh, while adjusting a ruck or tying a shoelace before doing something hard.

Why are we doing this?

Fair question. Nobody makes you drive out to ...

She Wore It To A Funeral

A friend shared something with me that really made an impact on me.

She went to a funeral. Someone she loved. And underneath her clothes, she wore her Do Hard Things shirt.

For strength.

Nobody in that room saw it. There was no one to impress. No conversation to start. N...

"It is not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

— Theodore Roosevelt

Two Hours In

Two hours into the paddle on the Missouri River, the canoe flipped. Joe and I found ourselves in cold water with our g...