Trail Running Blog

This is for the neo-geography nerds. Google Maps has added another cool feature: countour lines to the terrain mode.
Here is a track from a run I did up to Grouse Mountain from my apartment in the West End of Vancouver.
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The Canadian Mountain Running team is going to have a very solid team this year lead by Ryan Hayden who is a very talented track and road runner. Will be interesting to see how they fair at the NACAC.
Six Canadian mountain runners will head to Tepatitlan, Jalisco, Mexico, on June 15th for the 5th NACAC […]

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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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