Heat Training for Triathlon: What a Cramping 10K Taught Me
The swim was the part I dreaded most. It’s my weakest leg, so it’s the one I trained hardest, and last September at Chelanathon it paid off with a personal best. 34:21. Fourth in my age group, which was better than I placed in anything else all day. I came out of Lake Chelan feeling […]
Running 100 Miles Is Testing Me. The Cracks Are Showing.
By Dr. Nate Moller, D.C. | Living Well Family Chiropractic, Chelan, Washington Week 10 of the Road to 100. Lake Sonoma 100 is October 17, 2026. Short version: Most people who abandon a fitness goal will tell you they lost discipline. Take a history and you usually find something started hurting months earlier. Pain is […]
22 Miles on a Fifth of the Fuel
By Dr. Nate Moller, D.C. | Living Well Family Chiropractic, Chelan, Washington Week 9 of the Road to 100. Lake Sonoma 100 is October 17, 2026. Short version: I ran 22 miles in 91 degree heat and burned 2,557 calories on about 530 calories of fuel. That is roughly 22 grams of carbohydrate per hour, […]
14 Miles in a Dark Room: The Long Treadmill Run Nobody Posts About
By Dr. Nate Moller, D.C. | Living Well Family Chiropractic, Chelan, Washington Week 8 of the Road to 100. Lake Sonoma 100 is October 17, 2026. Short version: A long treadmill run takes more out of you than the same miles outside. Still air stops your sweat from cooling you, so you sweat harder and […]
I Run in Conditions I Hate. This Week I Found the Limit.
Running in wildfire smoke is a bad idea. I did it anyway. Here is what I learned. Week 7 of training for the Lake Sonoma 100. Five miles into my run this morning, my phone buzzed. It was Emily. “I’m coming to get you.” She was not asking. Last week I told this story… I […]
I Told My Wife, “If I Ever Decide to Run 100 Miles, Please Stop Me.”
Week 6 of training for the Lake Sonoma 100. I am a chiropractor in Chelan, Washington, and this is the honest version of what a 100 mile ultramarathon is doing to me before I have even reached the start line. I was laying in the passenger seat with my feet propped up. I could barely […]