Tag: Heartland 100

Heartland 50

Torrey Wilson (left) and Tyler Scheidt take on a long ribbon of the Heartland course. John Knepper / Mile 90 Photography “When we learn to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the b...

Heartland

“It wasn’t supposed to go this way.” How many times have those words been spoken, grumbled, whined, even cried in the midst of an ultra? In my case, at the Heartland 100, they started before the race. For many of us,...

Heartland

It’s 5:55 a.m. and I’m sitting in a pickup at the start line trying to stay warm. One of my crew members, Brandi Lane, hops in and asks how I’m feeling. “Scared to death,” I answer. This isn’t my first or even second att...

Heartland

The day began in the dark, in the middle of a paved county road, on the outskirts of the tiny railroad town of Cassoday, KS. After a quick countdown and the command, “Go,” the field of 59 runners shuttled away under a br...

Heartland 100

Reflecting on her finish at the 15th Annual Heartland 100 in Cassoday, KS, April Calaway wrote: “This is surreal. It surpassed even my fantasy goals. My number-one goal was to finish… and then I wanted to go under 20 hou...