Articles by Eric Senseman

Pointers for Pacers

If you want to successfully pace a runner at the 100-mile distance, you need to know the right answers to a lot of questions. Should you run in front of your runner or follow her? Are you allowed to carry food and water...

Transvulcania

The Transvulcania experience begins with the island’s mystique. Isla de la Palma is the fifth-largest island of seven islands located off Morocco’s southern coast that constitute the Canary Islands. Due to its secluded l...

Tortola Torture

I’m staring at crystalline water and a spattering of earth and trees that jut abruptly from the horizon to form nearby islands. I’m sitting on a damp wooden staircase sprinkled with sand and salt under the shade of a cab...

Speedgoat

“This climb sucks,” I heard behind me, as two runners slowly trudged up the increasingly rocky, steep and harrowing jeep trail flanked by groves of towering Aspen trees. “Hey, I actually like this section,” responded...

Ceven’trail

Keep moving; don’t stop. Keep moving! Was I really telling myself this just 20k into a 58k race? Not much further—keep grinding. I was nearing the high point of the course and it wasn’t a meek route to the summit: I had...

Eight Essentials for the Traveling Runner

Muddy shoes, wet socks and sweaty clothes adorning an ominously odorous mass of foul dampness—that’s one way to describe a runner who, in the ecstasies of post-run bliss, fails to recognize the staunch stench they are em...

Three Peaks of Yorkshire Club

The scenic Three Peaks Loop is an iconic U.K. trail route. It is a 24.5-mile loop that begins and ends in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, a sleepy town nestled in the Ingleborough National Nature Reserve. The area is within the Y...

Bootlegger

Once the sun rises over Bootleg Canyon, just north of Boulder City, NV, it gets warm fast—even if it’s the 8th of November. In the Nevada desert, the sun rises abruptly and tirelessly, first turning the darkness to dawn...