Three Peaks Recap

I may have gotten mauled a bit by Three Peaks.  We have returned home and I still walking stiffly and awkwardly.  Three Peaks was an amazing experience.   In the days before the race, the local runners spoke with much pride about their fell running and the difficulty of Three Peaks.  I’ll say they have much to [...]

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April 2008 Update

April 2008
4/5
Widowmaker Trail Race
Grand Junction, CO
11M – 1:09:46
1st Overall / 1st Master
4/12
Sun Dog’s K-9 Uphill
Aspen, CO
2+M – 31:08
1st Overall / 1st Master
**DOUBLE WEEKEND
**4/19
Salt Lake City Marathon
Salt Lake City, UT
26.2M – 2:44:21
12th Overall / 10th Male / 1st Master
**4/20
Spring Desert Ultra 10 Miler
Fruita, CO
1st Overall / 1st Master
**DOUBLE DAY
**4/26, 8AM
Garfield Grumble
Palisade, CO
5+M – 41:47
1st Overall / [...]

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Greenland Trail Races

Well, it is one week after the Greenland Trail Races and I am finally writing something about it.
For the first time the four years of the event, it filled to capacity. Granted it was only two weeks before the race, but it still filled. We cap the event at 500 due to the limits on [...]

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Three Peaks Update

We are here on the eve of Three Peaks with the weather showing signs of dampness and cooler conditions. Community support for the race is incredible. Everyone here seems to know every detail of the race and are excited about the foreign competition. The locals in Ingleton have been most encouraging and informative. Aaron and [...]

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Foxes on the run.

Have been having daily encounters with a local fox family on my training runs.  Thought some of you might enjoy seeing photos shot on the run…

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Three Peaks Adventure

I am finally finished with my enslavement to the nursery.  I am at the airport waiting on our delayed flight.  I think the plane is flying in circles as our departure time keeps moving back and then forward.  Alison is in the floor doing crunches and yoga.  She said she is glad that I am virtually impossible [...]

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Dead Sea Ultramarathon

 

The following was just submitted by Mark Werner.  It’s not exactly a “mountain” race – it goes to the lowest point on earth (!), but Mark is a great guy, an excellent mountain runner (until he took a mathematics professorship in Egypt), and equally good writer, and has a knack for winning extreme races – [...]

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Spring Marathons

Many of the very best trail runners train all winter for a spring marathon.  Afterward they take a good recovery break, then launch into a fun and successful summer mountain racing season, using the tempo ability, efficiency in form, and fitness they’ve already built, to great effect on the trails.  Top mountain bikers actually learned [...]

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WMRA Three Peaks Race

I’m in the middle of packing up my running kit to head to England for the WMRA Challenge Three Peaks Race.  Talking to the lady that I will be staying with, the locals are hard core downhill runners.  They like the Three Peaks race because they get three seperate downhills to “throw’ themselves down.  So [...]

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What’s wrong with this picture … ?

It’s very pretty … but it was taken on April 17!
Us Coloradoans have been reading trail race reports from California and North Carolina with uncharacteristic envy … it’s been a long winter!  Interstate 70 was closed again last night for 4.5 hours, and now this scene in good old Boulder.
Bernie Boettcher (who lives in Silt, CO) [...]

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