Trail Running Blog

I was just visiting the Montrail site and noticed their “Velocity” line of shoes has been trimmed as well as their climbing/mountaineering and hiking shoe lines. Finding that interesting I checked out their “Athletes” section (their list of sponsored athletes). I noticed this has been dramatically cut as well. Checking their blog they have a [...]

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Cold weather endurance events are one thing I would like to participate in but now that I am living on the West Coast I have to admit I am kind of feeble. When I lived in Saskatchewan I think I could have handled these with relative ease. Maybe some day if I harden myself again [...]

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Runners World has a great interview with ultra legend Tim Twietmeyer. Tim discusses how he has competed successfully without sacrificing his life. Right now at this point I am at the same stage. I love ultras but the time commitment needed to compete seems to be a barrier. This article gives me some hope. Link.

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This is about a week late but I have been really busy lately and haven’t had the time to keep up with the trail running world. For those who missed it Scott Jurek and Nikki Kimball were named UltraRunning Magazine’s Runners of the Year. I can’t say this isn’t much of a surprise with their [...]

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Was surfing YouTube and came across this video by runningraw. Interesting video documenting his first snowshoe race seems like Vermont has some serious runners participating in the sport. Make sure to watch the end of the video where he talks about the Dion snowshoes he uses they sure look a lot faster than my Atlas [...]

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