US Mountain Running Team – Final Selection Race

Sunday was the Cheyenne Cañon Mountain Race, a new event outside of Colorado Springs, created specifically to select the members of the USMRT (The first Selection Race was a month ago at Mt Cranmore in New Hampshire). The race thus had no history, relatively low general participation (36 women and 46 men), but very tight [...]

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Wasatch Speedgoat 50K- Lessons From the Pain Cave

Saturday I toed the line for the Wasatch Speedgoat 50k, the brain child of superstar ultra-runner Karl Metzler. I have an attraction to technical, elevation laden races and with Karl’s claim of the “the toughest 50k in the land”, I expected a fun filled day in the pain cave. The race starts at the tram [...]

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Anita Ortiz interview

CLICK HERE to listen to an interesting interview on Endurance Planet with La Sportiva Mountain Running Team member Anita Ortiz about her Western States 100 victory; in addition to her initiatives for getting kids active.

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Elephants Perch Backcountry Run, Ketchum, Idaho

Saturday marked another running of the Elephants Perch Backcountry Run. This annual run draws runners from around our region for two distances of ten (actual 9.1) miles and sixteen miles. The elevation gain for the ten miler is around 1100′ and comes between mile 1 and 6 with no flats. The overall gain for the [...]

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Tahoe Rim Trail- 2009 USATF 100 Mile Trail National Championship

The 2009 Tahoe Rim Trail 50K/50M/100M Endurance Runs will be presented on July 18th and 19th by the Sagebrush Stompers (Carson City, NV) and the Tahoe Mountain Milers (Lake Tahoe, USA) running clubs at beautiful Lake Tahoe, Nevada. This year’s event will serve as the 2009 USA Track & Field 100-mile Trail Championship In addition, [...]

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Barr Trail – Women tear it up

The Barr Trail Mountain Race lived up to it’s expectations – a great event featuring really good competition.

A number of people flew in as the BTMR is a stop on the La Sportiva Mountain Cup, but as Mike Selig said, “Those Colorado Springs boys have it wired. They’re good at altitude, know the course, [...]

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Hardrock 100 2009

Karl Meltzer just won his 5th Hardrock, in his fastest time ever! Karl clocked a stunning 24:38, running off the front the whole way, and very consistently. During every section he was strong, fluid, and focussed; his form looking quite different from everyone else in the field. At the finish he [...]

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Barr Trail Mountain Race

AN OUTSTANDING EVENT
The 10th annual BTMR is Sunday. This is a premier “regional” race – everyone in Colorado knows it is a marquee event, yet few if any people come from other parts of the country to do it. Which is too bad – many experienced mountain runners consider the Barr Trail Mountain Race [...]

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Finger Lakes Fifties

The twenty-first annual Finger Lakes Fifties was held on Saturday, July 4 at the Finger Lakes National Forest in Hector, NY. Race distances included 50miles, 50km and a 25km race. The course is a nice combination of rolling single track forest trail and meadows, with limited road sections. One of the great things about this [...]

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PCTR Pacifica Trail Runs

On July 5th, I participated in yet another great Pacific Coast Trial Runs event, this time at San Pedro Valley County Park, just south of San Francisco. The park features pristine coastal mountain habitat, also known as coastal scrub, consisting of low evergreen shrubs and herbs. The event included distances of 9k/21k/30k/50k. All runs at [...]

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