Watch: Breaking Down the Mud & Chaos of NXN 2025 (w/ WestcoastXC)
The photos tell one side of the story. The conversation tells the other.
I sat down with Ken from WestcoastXC this week to break down everything that happened at Glendoveer. While we certainly talked about the race results, we spent a lot of time discussing what it actually felt like to be on the course—the mud, the weird start to the girls' race, and the stories behind the images.
If you want to know what it takes to shoot (and run) in those conditions, give this a listen.
📺 Watch the Episode:
Watch the full breakdown above (35 mins).
In this episode:
04:00 - Introduction: How I went from "Dad with a camera" to the sidelines of Nationals.
06:15 - Behind the scenes of the Sehome High School feature story.
09:30 - The "Mud Theory": Why the course conditions leveled the playing field.
12:15 - Course Walk: My first-hand account of the "shoe-sucking" mud at the start line.
19:00 - The False Start: What really happened at the beginning of the Girls' Championship race.
28:50 - The Northwest Angle: Breaking down the local performances (Cassidy Armstrong, Sehome, etc).
31:45 - The Business of Photography: Senior portraits and building a brand in the PNW.
👀 The Visual Companion: While you listen to the breakdown, open the full photo essay below to see the images we are discussing in high resolution.
