Aid stations are totally awesome, as are the volunteers who staff them. Really, it’s the aid stations that make the whole ultra thing possible. You run almost completely unencumbered by equipment for 30, 50, or 100 miles...
Articles by Gary Dudney
Ultrarunning is rife with setting and pursuing big goals. It might be the conquest of that first ultra finish, the first mind-boggling try at 100 miles or maybe a time goal such as a sub-five hour 50k or a sub-eight hour...
Drive on down to Evangeline Parish in south central Louisiana, tune into a Zydeco radio station, stop in for some viande boucanée, pull into old Ville Platte, capitol seat of the parish and then set your sights on Chicot...
When you take up ultrarunning, there are three things you must do to prepare yourself for the sheer physical demands of the sport. First, you need to run trails. The uneven surfaces, ups and downs, obstacles, rocks a...
Race Director Joe Prusaitis makes no bones about the nature of the Cactus Rose 100 Mile Run. His website intro page warns, “No Whiners, Wimps, or Wusses: A nasty rugged trail run,” and the first line of the race informat...
Whoa, whoa, chill out. First, don’t be messin’ with my tunes. Second, don’t ever be messin’ with my tunes. Lots of ultrarunners plug into music while they’re training and while they’re...
There are so many well-organized, convenient, epic-cool ultras on the calendar nowadays that you can pretty much pick and choose to your heart’s delight. Still, circumstances arise where you are intent upon a certa...
One way or another, we all face the need to reconcile our running passion with what is going on in the rest of our lives. We have to find a lifestyle that equitably balances running goals with obligatioas to friends, fam...
The surprise isn’t that ultrarunners get lost once in a while. The surprise is that they’re not all lost all the time. Imagine marking 30 to 100 miles of remote trail for a bunch of strangers who are mostly c...