The lure of a fastest known time is strong these days. Facebook and Twitter feeds, particularly in the summer and fall, seem jammed with photos of runners either in the process of chasing an FKT, preparing for an FKT...
Articles by John Trent
I still have the letter, though it dates back 20 years now. It was the summer of 1997, and I was a few weeks removed from my first Western States Endurance Run. I’d finished, which was normally cause for celebration....
Together, over a surprisingly frenzied weekend in late June, three runners came to represent the ultimate triumph of dreams that can be realized or be dashed at the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run. There was the...
It’s hard to believe that Greg Soderlund has passed away and his unflappable nature, his adroit organizational skill and his calmness under pressure serving as race director of the Western States Endurance Run are just m...
Like clockwork, the two women begin the running year early in the spring, together, in the canyons of the Western States Trail. They have done this for going on seven years now, which mirrors closely the time they’ve...
Erin Strout has always given back. Most notably, during her nearly 20 years as a journalist, her altruism has come in the form of insightful writing for national publications. Her writing is reflective of who she is:...
It was only a few miles of conversation between two runners as they worked their way across a muddy mountain in northern Nevada last May. Months later, as Kaci Lickteig is asked about it, it’s clear she hasn’t forgotten...
The father had always been old school and a bit old-fashioned. He was a man who could easily handle both a stethoscope and a shotgun, his life shaped by time tending patients in emergency rooms in Roseville, California,...
A defiant growl… A sigh, tinged with momentary and fleeting disappointment… A piece of paper that had taken months to write upon… A little boy’s love of his mother… A pair of flip-flops that took their owner...
In recent years, The Silver State 50/50 Endurance Runs have earned a reputation for being warm, if not downright hot, experiences. The mid-May temperatures in Reno often rise into the mid 80s, which can lead to a soul...