by Ron Nageotte It was just another normal race day morning, Saturday, April 23rd. I had raced and trained on the Escape from Prison Hill ½ Marathon course for years. I had run a 20 mile training run just a week before with Carol and I had completed the Way Too Cool 50k earlier in […]
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The last runner on the Castle Peak 100K course
by Cheryl Lloyd Peggy entered the Castle Peak Aid Station late in the race with her daughter. They headed up to the Peak on a trail that had some moderate exposure. It was very windy that day up on top and many runners took as much as 2 hours to complete the 2 mile loop […]
TRT 2015 Race Report (July 18, 2015)
By George Ruiz, RD What a different a year makes. Last year the Tahoe Rim Trail Endurance Runs were nearly washed away by savage thunderstorms, this year the weather Gods smiled and gave us perfect weather for great performances in all three distances, the 100 mile, 50 mile and 55K. Ernesto Duran 39 year old […]
She Rocks the Trails 25K June 13, 2015
She Rocks the Trails 25K on June 13 was the hottest (literally) race I’ve done this year. Living in Tahoe I was really worried that my stomach would get upset, suffer heat stroke and DIE! This race is mostly women, but a few brave men joined the party. The race began and ended at the […]
Bryce Canyon 50 Mile
by Shannon Hataway Driving to Bryce Canyon, you begin to get a sense of the landscape long before you arrive. Tall columns of red sandstone are revealed here and there, deep gorges with trickling streams, towering cliffs capped with resistant rock layers, and the gray-greens and browns of the Nevada desert give way to the […]
My first (and probably only) 24 hour race
by Kati Bell Originally published in the TMM May 2015 Newsletter. The Coburg 24 hour Australian National Championship Track race sounds daunting – running around a 400m track for 24 hours…why would anyone want to do this??? Well, it turns out, not many people in Australia want to! With only 60 slots available for walkers […]
Canyons 100K Aid Station Report
Race Day: May 2, 2015 Report Posted: June 25, 2015 By Cheryl Surface & Leslie Wunder, Aid Station Captains New this year to the Ultra Running calendar on May 2, 2015 was the Canyons 100K, along with the original 50K, in its second year. Race Director Chaz Sheya and his assistant directors Pete Broomhall and […]