A 13-year-old ultra running champion
Sebastian Salsbury is quick to point out that young people hiking or running long distances is nothing new. He’s correct, of course, even...
2020 vision: Heading back to the Bel Monte 50K
In March, I am returning to the Bel Monte Endurance Races 50K, held in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. It will be my...
A grand life of ultra running
(Sarah Lavender Smith running the first stage of the 2019 Grand to Grand Ultra with the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in the...
Win a Coros watch in ultra runner of the year contest
I will be giving away a Coros Apex watch as part of a contest with my Second Annual Top 20 Inspirational Ultra Runners of the Year post....
Fighting the Yeti and losing
Editor's note: This summer I wrote about Jason Atnip and his quest to run his first 100-miler. Earlier this week, he finished 78 miles...
Dave Mackey, the boulder, the amputation and the future
Dave Mackey considers himself lucky. It was nearly four and a half years ago when he was on top of the world, on a normal training run in...
A memorable North Face race
It had been three months since my previous race and I was ready. The anticipation in returning to the North Face Endurance Challenge...
Healing animals for work; healing herself through running
Teresa Kaiser just loves running for the physical and emotional resets it gives her. “It makes any day seem better. Maybe that counts as...
The ups and downs of an elite ultra runner
Michele Yates has the hips, pelvis and pubic bone area of a 100-year-old, doctors told her five years ago. “My bones had grown the wrong...
Why I love North Face races
Four weeks from Saturday I will be returning to Kettle Moraine State Forest in Wisconsin for my third North Face Endurance Challenge...
