Jeff O’Brien

Purposeful Goal… Around Valentine’s day I made some random resolutions. One of those included trying to run 500 miles in the year. I’ve never run much before. It seemed like an appropriate challenge. My garage wall running journal. One thing … Continued

SCF 5.0 Day 7 Present: It’s hard to come back down… I’m at work, attending to voice and e-mails, looking out on a crispy Colorado mountain morning. Aspens changing, 47 degrees. My present reality completely contrasts the experiences I had … Continued

SCF 5.0 Day 6 Business as usual – run, pool, breakfast. They call a 78 mile box like task that will take us quite a way out into the mostly roadless desert, but we’ll be in proximity of the mountains. … Continued

SCF 5.0 Day 5 Contented after a great day of being social and racing your mates. I woke tired, took the run, swim and breakfast. Things are getting wonderfully routine. Set up my glider, they called a 73 mile triangle, … Continued

SCF 5.0 Day 4 I already read Davis’s account HERE (http://ozreport.com/1316651248) but my perception of the day was a bit different. Sure, we could have and probably should have gone to the north and west and things would have been better task … Continued

SCF 5.0 Day 3 I get up early, run then plunge and I’m having breakfast with coffee on the balcony by 8am. Do an hour of work then head up on the rooftop where Alex is flying his remote control … Continued

The sign that was plastered last year is gone… Utah DOT has put up a new “canvas” to decorate. See below: SCF 5.0 Day 2 Woke @ 7am and went straight for a run. Hard to motivate, then the miles … Continued

SCF 5.0 Day 1 A 70 mile triangle is called. Winds are supposed to be light, and we’re supposed to get to 9000ft. maybe higher near the mountains. (ground is 1300ft. here) The view on our balcony. Launch opens at … Continued

Davide Guiducci over the Dolomites last week. Remember that photo of GW meadows over the Pali coast 20 years ago? The modern version… Exceptional shot. Waves in Fluid Air is an exploitable fluid just like water: Steve Fossett without a … Continued

Day 7 We head an hour away to Mt. Subazio above Assisi. Completely open meadow atop the mountain. They call an 87km basket weaving task across the valley with four turnpoints. Our launch line is a sh*t show with total … Continued