If history is any indication, the sport of ultrarunning is doing just fine. In fact, it may surprise you to learn that people first started making a career out of our sport over 2,500 years ago. That’s right, the ancient...
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Two thousand and sixteen was another year of solid growth and increasing speed in our sport, a continuation of trends that was surely apparent to all participants. But under that umbrella were many ironies and surprises...
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...
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,...
In June, I celebrated six years as a licensed physical therapist. In “dog years”, I’m near retirement age. And dog years and “PT years” have something in common, because of this stark statistic: the average physical ther...
In the earliest days of ultra-distance races, food and water were essential, if not life-sustaining. For years, aid stations have been central to the ultrarunning experience. But food and water aren’t the only nourish...
These days, it’s in vogue to televise vintage sporting events, and while at my favorite watering hole recently, a classic was on the screen. The 1988 NBA All-Star game was memorable, not for the action, but for the playe...