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Despite the Wacky Year, Wacker Finds Ways to Stay Fast and Motivated
Andy Wacker has had a rather, um, wacky year of trail running. And, OK, yes, we have all had a bizarre and challenging year, running or otherwise. With potentially just one race left on his schedule,...
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Dauwalter Wins U.S. Big’s Backyard Ultra With Record-Setting Effort
While you were sleeping last night, Tuesday, October 20, 2020, ultrarunning history was made in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. American ultrarunning legends Courtney Dauwalter and Harvey Lewis pushed each...
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UTMB Is Back!
The world’s most important trail race is driving forward—pandemic or not—and despite a tough year across the board, it seems to only be gaining steam. While many races struggle to fill their 2021 entry...
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2021 Marks The Year Trail Running Gets Its World Championships
On November 11, 2021, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, four international running organizations will come together to present the first-ever World Mountain and Trail Running Championships. It’s an historic...
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Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc Partners with Ironman
Did you feel the ground shake under the trail during your last run? You might have. Because this morning at 10 a.m. Paris time, Chamonix, France, was the epicenter of an earthquake that radiated...
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Celebrate Pride With Us By Running This Virtual 5K With a Mission
PRIDE 2021: A special series celebrating nonprofits working for inclusivity Founded by nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz, the Pride 5k is a virtual event to raise money for the Trevor Project. Nikki Hiltz...
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China Temporarily Suspends Ultras and Mountain Races to Develop Safety Standards
Less than two weeks after inclement weather and a lack of safety regulations resulted in the tragic the death of 21 runners in a 100K race in a mountainous region of China, the government has issued a...
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It Is Time For The Big Dance aka Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run
On Saturday, June 26, 2021, at 5 a.m. PDT, 320 runners will depart Olympic Valley, California, on their quest to run 100 miles through the Sierra Nevada mountains to the finish line of the Western...
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In Chamonix, France, The Trail Racing Never Stops (Well, Almost Never)
It’s early morning, 1,400 meters above Chamonix, France, and Club des Sports Director Fred Comte couldn’t be happier. He is smiling broadly, cheering on trail runners. Only, they aren’t running. Most...
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5 Things To Know About This Year’s Leadville 100 Run
After being canceled in 2020 for the first time in its 39-year history, the Leadville Trail 100, a,.k.a., “The Race Across the Sky,” returns Aug. 21-22 with the same rugged, mountainous spirit it has...
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New and familiar faces vie for JFK 50-Mile Titles This Weekend
This weekend’s JFK 50-Mile in Hagerstown, Maryland, will see Thanksgiving-like temperatures between the 20s and 40s, in keeping with many past editions of the race. But that’s where the similarities...
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Volcanic Eruption Cancels 2021 Transvulcania After 2020 Covid Cancellation
(Header Photo Copyright: iancorless.com) It sounds like a line lifted right from the Bible: “After 18 months of pandemic an eruption of fire and molten lava shall incinerate thine running trails.”...
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UTMB Continues to Expand with Thailand Series
The language of running is universal, but so are the dialects uttered in the pain cave. If you’ve spent any time trail running, you know that a shared sense of suffering is both our raison d’etre and...
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How Jasmin Paris Conquered the Barkley Marathons “Fun Run”
There were once again no finishers in the 2022 edition of the Barkley Marathons, the annual 100-mile bushwacker through Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park, created and conducted by Gary “Lazarus Lake”...
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Race Preview: The Gorge Waterfalls 50K/100K
In September 2017, the Eagle Creek fire ripped through the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, torching 50,000 acres of some of the most beloved trails and forests in the Pacific Northwest. For...
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15 Years In, The Lake Sonoma 50 Is Keeping It Fresh
The Lake Sonoma 50 is one of the fastest and most iconic ultramarathons in the country, and this weekend, on April 9, it turns 15. We caught up with its new race director and Trail Sisters founder Gina...
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5 Ways To Know if a Stage Race is Right For You
Imagine this: Yesterday, you ran a marathon-length trail route that beat up your quads and blistered three toes. Today, you’re up for another 25 to 30 miles on an unfamiliar stretch of treacherous...
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Here’s Who To Watch For At The Cocodona 250 – And How
The second-ever Cocodona 250 will kick off on Monday, May 2nd, with an alternate course beginning in Prescott, Arizona, and ending in downtown Flagstaff. Over 200 runners will have roughly five days to...
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Joe McConaughy, Annie Hughes win second-ever Cocodona 250
Nearly 230 miles into the 2022 Cocodona 250, Joe McConaughy was sipping pickle juice straight from a 2-liter jar. And he was grinning. The Seattlite took the lead almost uncomfortably early in the 2022...
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