Trail Running Blog

The Mail Tribune has a good article about Hal Koerner recent winner of the Angeles Crest 100-mile race. He says ultra runners need luck as much as strength and endurance to win a race. Muscles can cramp after tens of thousands of steps and force a runner off the trail. A single misstep on a [...]

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As the trail and mountain running racing season winds down many of us are forced to go into base training mode, this often is a good thing but for those who still have some matches to burn the Cross Country season is just ramping up. Many areas have Cross Country race series which are not [...]

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This is an amazing feet. Dean Karnazes is running 50 in 50 but to me this is just as impressive. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California – South African Johan Oosthuizen, 33, broke a Guinness World Record of “Fastest Aggregate Time – Three Marathons in Three Days” at the Tahoe Triple, which concluded at the Lake Tahoe [...]

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The Three Peaks race is a classic mountain run. I would love to take a trip to europe to run this one. CRAVEN will host the World Mountain Running Championships over its Three Peaks in 2008. The Three Peaks Race Committee, which organises a popular annual race over Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent have beaten off [...]

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There are a couple of great Grand Slam interviews one on Dom Reptas Ultra Run Canada Blog with Bruce Grant and another on Scott Dunlaps A Trail Runners Blog with Krissy Moehl. Check them out! I find running one 100 miler to be mind boggling but 4 100 mile races in less than 4 months [...]

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