The Lavaredo Ultra Trail is a 119k race held every June in the Dolomites, which are the wildest and most scenic part of the Italian Alps. The stunning course goes up and down their steep, rocky mountainsides like a rolle...
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The Transvulcania experience begins with the island’s mystique. Isla de la Palma is the fifth-largest island of seven islands located off Morocco’s southern coast that constitute the Canary Islands. Due to its secluded l...
After a full day of driving barren, dusty roads, I had finally made it back to the place where I began my journey into trail running, and a place where I felt most at home. I had once again made it back to the Copper Can...
Running 53k of single-track anywhere is tough. Starting out with a 450-meter climb straight up a mountain makes it a little more daunting. Traversing 23k of winding mountain path takes some training. Trotting along seasi...
In this month’s column we bring you news from a historic race in France, the last race of the grand slam in the UK and the final race of the Ultra Trail World Tour series. Les Templiers Millau, France was the setting...
In this month’s column, we bring you news from Europe and Asia from the Skyrunning Ultra and the Ultra Trail World Tour series. Ultra Pirineu The world Skyrunning Ultra series concluded its 2015 season in Spain at th...
All the talk of this year’s Spartathlon focused on the two record-breaking performances by US women Katalin Nagy and Alyson Venti. Both women beat the old record of 26:53:40 while taking the top two podium spots and mark...
UTMB On a warm Chamonix evening, 2,300 runners assembled for the thirteenth edition of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc. There are usually many who run the first five miles to Les Houches at a sprint, and this year was no...
Winschoten, The Netherlands I’m 89 kilometers into the 2015 IAU 100K World Championships in Winschoten, the Netherlands, working through a panoply of aches and pains. My calves and hamstrings have been occasionally cr...
In this month’s column, we bring you news from Europe from the Eiger Ultra; the UK’s classic mountain race Ultra Trail Lake District; Norway’s latest SkyRace, Tromso; and an exciting UK trail race along an ancient pilgri...
MONT BLANC 80K On Friday, June 26th , the Mont Blanc 80K took place in Chamonix, France. It can only be described as a tough mountainous race with a total of 19,000 feet of climbing, not for the faint-hearted. In one of...
The long ascent to the Gornergrat began under the watchful eye of the Matterhorn on Independence Day morning. There was a heat wave across Europe, and despite being surrounded by glaciers, Zermatt and its surroundings we...
This month we have news from all corners of the globe, including the legendary Comrades ultra road marathon in South Africa. The North Face 100 – Australia A strong field of International and southern hemisphere runn...
Both the men and women’s USA 24 Hour Running Teams entered the World Championships in Turin, Italy on April 11th as defending World Champions after their victories in the Netherlands in 2013. The 2014 World Championships...
TRANSVULCANIA The Canary island of La Palma was the incredible setting for the opening race of the 2015 Sky Runner World Series, the Transvulcania ultramarathon. It’s a 73 km-long trail of volcanic sand and lava rocks t...
How does one prepare for a race so unique, not even the race directors know what to expect? By running loops on tsunami evacuation towers, of course. The venue: Thailand’s first ever mountain ultramarathon, an 80k cou...
Keep moving; don’t stop. Keep moving! Was I really telling myself this just 20k into a 58k race? Not much further—keep grinding. I was nearing the high point of the course and it wasn’t a meek route to the summit: I had...
Fuego y Agua 2015 was the sixth year for the 50k and 100k trail races on the volcanic Isla de Ometepe on Lake Nicaragua. It was also the third year for the 30-hour Survival Run, a hybrid ultramarathon race with added phy...
The scenic Three Peaks Loop is an iconic U.K. trail route. It is a 24.5-mile loop that begins and ends in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, a sleepy town nestled in the Ingleborough National Nature Reserve. The area is within the Y...