Trail Running Blog

This is good promotion of Mountain Running within the African communities. This should take it too a whole new level possibly even an Olympic event? You know they do have trampoline in the Olympics…
The Cross River State Government intends to create a competition for children in subsequent editions of the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race.
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For those who do ultra running you might find this article in the NY Times interesting it discusses the use of dissociation and how it clearly works:
Dr. Morgan, who tested the method in research studies, said he was inspired by a story, reported by an anthropologist that, he suspects, is apocryphal. It involves Tibetan […]

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A site visitor emailed me wondering if I knew what was the first trail running race? Good question I have no idea. Does anyone out there know the answer to this? I have a feeling it was probably in the UK seems like mountain running has been around for quite awhile over there. In North […]

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Well I said Uli would be tough to beat in the final race of the The North Face Endurance Challenge Series and he was according to Scott Dunlap’s post Uli Steidl and Matt Carpenter raced toe-to-toe for 44 miles until Uli dropped the hammer. This was a well deserved $10,000.00 payday for this amazing […]

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