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Articles by Gary Cantrell

Gary Cantrell writes the “View From the Open Road” column. Gary has written for UltraRunning more or less continuously since his column “From the South” first appeared in Volume 1, Number 1 back in May of 1981. He is perhaps most well-known as the founder of the Barkley, a trail race in eastern Tennessee. (Although some would comment that it isn’t really a race, and others would add that those aren’t really trails.) He is also the founder of the Strolling Jim 40 Mile and periodically organizes a 314-mile run across Tennessee, the Vol State Road Race. He is currently the race director of the Backyard Ultra. In the real world he works as an accountant.

From the South: The Outer Limits

From the South: Are You an Athlete?

From the South: A Lifetime of Collecting Roads

From the South: Graduate School in Ultrarunning

From the South: Advice to the Beginning R.D. (Part III)

From the South: Advice to the Beginning R.D. (Part II)

From the South: Advice for the Beginning Race Director

From the South: Advice to the Beginning Ultrarunner (Part 2)

From the South: Advice to the Beginning Ultrarunner

There seems to be a consistent demand for how-to articles on ullrarunning. Newcomers to our joyous sport eagerly seek advice on how to minimize the lime spent as novices so that they can play the game without learning ma...

From the South: The Bigger They Are...

From the house it looked just like snow. For 36 hours, billions of tiny bits of ice had poured from the sky. By the time it finished, everything in sight was covered by a six-inch sheet of ice. No matter that I had liste...

From the South: Breakfast of Champions

From the South: Real Runners Don't Play It Safe

From the South: The Wisdom of the Sages

From the South: Some of the Things I Don’t Know

From the South: Changes in the Ultra Community

From the South: Night Belongs to Me. I Belong to the Night

From the South: Teamwork, but Only Up to a Point

From the South: Tales From Off Center

From the South: Metabolic Distress by Gary Cantrell

From the South: You Young Fast Guys

From the South: Cooking in Tennessee

From the South: We Tried, I Swear We Tried

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: The Music Stopped, I Was Dancing Alone

From the South: My Greatest Fear

From the South: Nature (Beside the Road)

From the South: Old Stuff (Beside the Road)

From the South: Animal Carcasses (Beside the Road)

From the South: Beside the Road — Collectible Refuse

From the South: The Best Laid Plans...