Cinque Terre is comprised of five colorful villages hanging off of the very rugged coastline of northwest Italy, a couple hours due south of Milan. These villages were not inhabited in a meaningful way until around 1200...
Articles by Zane Holscher
Who runs an ultra on Valentine’s Day? It turns out those with very big hearts do. Not enlarged hearts in a medical sense but rather big, caring, giving, thinking-of-others-first hearts. This small band of brothers and si...
All the talk of this year’s Spartathlon focused on the two record-breaking performances by US women Katalin Nagy and Alyson Venti. Both women beat the old record of 26:53:40 while taking the top two podium spots and mark...
Last year, there were 550,650 marathon finishers and 84,000 ultra finishers. To my mind, these numbers indicate that nearly half a million people would love the heck out of ultrarunning if they tried it. A major way race...
This May, after falling just short of the magical 600-mile mark last year in Anchorage, AK, Joe Fejes became the first modern-day American to break the 600-mile barrier in six days at the EMU World Trophy races in Hungar...
Both the men and women’s USA 24 Hour Running Teams entered the World Championships in Turin, Italy on April 11th as defending World Champions after their victories in the Netherlands in 2013. The 2014 World Championships...
This is the first year we have had a race of 100+ miles. The participants of that race ran on the 24-hour course (two-mile loop) for 13 hours. If they completed at least 50 miles in those 13 hours, they then faced the no...