Articles by Gordon Harvey

Volunteers Save the Day

Almost 25 miles into the 2022 Pinhoti 100, a runner from California, on a solo trip to the race, realized that his wallet and rental car key, which he kept in a repurposed candy bag, were missing. Mortified at not hav...

Rebecca Mountain

Near the top of the longest climb of the Rebecca Mountain 50-miler, a four-mile slog up Horn Mountain towards a ridge section that offers single-track, ridgeline running, one could hear a socialist and a libertarian disc...

Pinhoti

Welcome to northeast Alabama and the Pinhoti 100. In its tenth year, Pinhoti 100 has lured runners from all over the U.S, and many foreign nations to the Pinhoti Trail for a point-to-point 100-mile race from Heflin, Alab...

Mountain Mist

There’s an unwritten rule in an ultra that if you trip and start to fall, you’ll use way less energy if you just go down rather than trying to stay upright. That’s where I found myself less than a hundred feet from the f...