Articles by Tom Miller

The Hennepin Hundred

I’ll be turning 74 this year, and I’ve been running competitively for 57 of them. That’s a long time. I’ve competed at distances from 440 yards (high school) to 100 miles (last year at the Hennepin Hundred). I love runni...

Hennepin Hundred

On New Year’s Day, I opened my runner’s log to October 6 and penciled in the Hennepin 100. This flat and non-technical race along the historic Hennepin Canal in northwest Illinois topped my bucket list. And at 72, my sel...

Hawkeye 50K

You don’t often see the words “Iowa” and “ultrarunning” in the same sentence. And, we understand. The Hawkeye State has no mountains and little gnarly single-track to attract hardcore masochists. But, there are a few...

The Hennepin Hundred

We’ve all heard the old idiom, “The third time’s the charm.” I’ve been trying to run the Hennepin Hundred since it debuted along the historic Hennepin Canal in 2015. That first year (2015), I was a DNS because of injury....