The weekend at Black Canyon Ultras wasfor many, a much anticipated return to racing in the pandemic era. After nearly a full year since the start of it all, racing opportunities for most have been relatively few and...
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Black Canyon 100K was the first time my children would be a part of an entire race experience. After the 30-hour car ride from Wisconsin to Arizona, we scoped out a campsite near the start for race morning. My husband wo...
You don’t normally find starfish 400 miles from the Pacific Ocean, but within a matter of minutes and just over 10 miles into the 2019 Black Canyon 100K, I found two.The first one happened to be myself, as I tripped head...
Four Golden tickets were up for grabs at this year’s Black Canyon 100K in Mayer, AZ, on February 17. Canada’s Ailsa MacDonald avenged last year’s excruciating third-place finish with a blistering fast 8:53 for the win, n...
When I got on the Black Canyon 100K website the day before the race, I was just planning to review the course profile and just generally get mentally ready for the race. What I discovered was that the race course was bei...
February in Phoenix can be unpredictable. One week freezing (or so it seems, to us desert dwellers), the next blazing hot. Of course, it would happen that Black Canyon Weekend fell in the middle of a blazing hot few days...
While most of the population was scrambling about looking for last minute stuffed teddy bears, heart shaped chocolates and overpriced flowers, there were over 130 brave souls toeing the line for second annual Black Canyo...