It was the exploits of Killian Jornet that first brought the existence of the Hard Rock 100 to my awareness. Jornet has been known to dismiss other famous 100-mile races as too flat to warrant a...
Category: Ultra Running
The town of Leadville was the most productive silver-mining district in the state of Colorado. When mining stopped the town slid into decline. The race across the sky or Leadville 100 has...
At the end of June each year a group of runners line up in Squaw Valley with the objective of running to Auburn, California, 100 miles away across mountain trails. For most, it is a process of...
If you spend a lot of time with a group of trail runners from Europe then the term UTMB is bound to come up in conversation. The UTMB is an annual trail running race of 106 miles that circles Mont...
When it comes to whacky, off-the-wall trail race concepts, there is nothing to beat the Barkley Marathons. Imagine a race so tough that it wasn’t until the tenth edition that an athlete finished...
I can remember the first time I saw trail running videos of people running along rocky ridgelines. That looked way too scary to just be normal trail running and I was right. I was looking at an...