About Josiah Middaugh

The mountains and the thin air were the perfect stimulus for me. I bought a mountain bike from the pawn shop and decided I would jump into a 100 mile mountain bike race the next month that included over 13,000 feet of elevation gain. That was my introduction to high altitude racing. I found snowshoe racing that first winter and discovered that I could be good at it. The next year I won the North American Snowshoe Championship and went on to win the National Snowshoe Championship.

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Paying the Oxygen Debt

Racing for me is about taking chances. Unless it is a championship race, I like to be able to find something out about myself. I usually go into a race with some sort of race strategy either keying off opponents or keying off the course. Last Saturday at the second race of the Beaver Creek Snowshoe Adventure Series I decided that I would take the race out hard for the first uphill mile. It...

Four weeks of Detraining

Today marks four weeks since the Xterra World Championship race. The “down time” between training seasons is usually referred to as the Transition Period, but to me it seems more like a detraining cycle. One of the hardest things for many endurance athletes is taking time off and I am no exception. Following the Xterra race I was exhausted from a long season and I was looking forward to spe...