Articles by Gary Cantrell

From the South: What's so Important about a Name?

In listing only the given names of finishers of ultramarathons each month. Ultrarunning has missed the boat. Not only does the magazine fail to identify the runners except to their friends, but they also omit a lot of th...

From the South: Beating on the Clothesline Pole

There was a time, only a couple of decades ago, when those of us in the tiny running community used to smugly tell one another that running would never be popular — “No one will be willing to work this hard,...