Over the last 10 years, I’ve been “fortunate” enough to do a number of races touted as “the hardest race in the world,” so when I received the following e-mail in December 2014 from “Run Bum,” the RD for the Georgia Deat...
Articles by Travis Macy
We all know ultrarunning is going to beat us up physically from time to time, but we sometimes overlook the way we beat ourselves up mentally – both in running and in life. A few years ago, I realized some of my own nega...
My friend Emma Roca is a Renaissance woman. The 42-year-old mountain rescue firefighter from Spain’s Catalonia region in the Pyrenees recently finished a Ph.D. in biochemistry while raising three children and earning pod...
After returning from a recent ultra, I ran into a friend at the rec center. This guy is an avid marathoner, and we caught up on each other’s training and racing. The conversation came to a close and we began to part when...
By July 1993, Marshall Ulrich was well established as one of the best in the sport, a veritable King of Badwater who seemed to handle the heat better than almost anyone around. I was well established as a self-assured in...
Brandy Erholtz and I were pushing hard on a steep climb at nearly 10,000 feet, but the familiar synergy, experienced many times before with friends and competitors in training and racing, made the toil bearable. The Euro...
Podiums, prizes and PRs are nice, and I was fortunate enough to win some races in 2015. Looking back, however, the most impactful and lasting moments of the year occurred when I used well-planned goals, hard work, intent...
I’ll be the first to admit that as a sponsored athlete and someone who counts on at least some income from coaching, book sales, speaking and other endeavors associated with ultrarunning, I appreciate races with a slick...
Packing up at home in the Colorado Rockies for my upcoming race in the Marin Headlands, I wondered whether I should bring the heavy tights and winter hat I’d worn on every run for three months. I wondered what, exactly,...