Trail Running Blog

Scooped from Runners Web, looks like XTERRA is going to be offering a trail running  series:
XTERRA, the most illustrious name in off-road triathlons gives the pavement a vacation by offering the XTERRA Scramble® - a fun and challenging series of trail runs, staged across the nation with distances ranging from 5K to 10K.
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Where do these people get the energy…
SOME PEOPLE GO fishing on weekends. Dr. Paul Piplani runs marathons.
Nearly every weekend, he’s away from his home in Phoenix, running one or two marathons on the way to his goal of running 1,000 lifetime marathons and ultra-marathons. When he comes to Frederick April 30 to run in the […]

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Yikes:
A failed escape into East Tennessee’s mountainous terrain by convicted assassin James Earl Ray in June 1977 gave Gary Cantrell an idea for a race that has become known as one of the world’s hardest ultramarathons…
Only six people have finished the entire 100-mile journey — five times around a 20-mile loop in Frozen Head State […]

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It seems the races just get more  challenging, remote and insane.
Contestants will run eight laps of just over three miles each on a solid sheet of ice where Donovan can monitor the group with binoculars and a snowmobile will trail them. A circular track is the best option, Donovan said, because on a straight route […]

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