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SHANK GYM

Shank Gym is a field-based archive rooted in Spartan racing and trail running.

The tiles below organize the work:
race reviews, readiness, field projects, field notes, essays.
Expeditions connect related work across time and place.
About explains the project.
Post Illusion Press is a parallel long-form writing practice.

If that’s your kind of terrain, welcome.
New here? Start here.

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Latest Entry

Spartan Houston Texas Trifecta Weekend 3/14/26

Welcome to Cat Spring, Texas and the 7iL Ranch—I hope you like sand. If not, well… you’re about to become friends with it. It’s everywhere—on the course, in your shoes, in your socks, and somehow in places you won’t fully understand until you unpack at home. This is not occasional sand. This is full Paul Atreides walking into the desert level immersion. At some point during the race, you stop fighting it and just accept that you’re living in it, moving through it, and taking part of it with you

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