For a remote 100 mile race with a 48 hour cut off that could see you facing extreme weather conditions you want the right gear. The Hardrock 100 takes runners to over 14,000 feet altitude and the weather is unpredictable in the Rocky Mountains. Gear choices are personal, but here is what I took along…
I was dead scared of running the Leadville Trail 100, or more precisely, of failing spectacularly. At 30 hours, it’s a tight cut-off for a high-altitude race, which contributes to only about half of participants finishing each year. As I stepped out of the bus on the town’s wide main road, lined by old-time Saloons,…
Did you do the Ultra-Trail Australia this year and are wondering how the champions manage to run all those stairs even late in the race? Perhaps you need an Ultra Trail Australia training plan. Lithuanian elite runner Andrius Ramonas, who has been living in New Zealand for the past year and a half,…
“No peein’ off the porch” is the sign that greets me as I wait on Craig Thornley’s deck. He is in the kitchen to make tea and one of his cats is keeping an eye on me from under a wooden bench. What do Western States runners get up to on their race director’s porch?…
FRANKFURT—Adidas AG ADS.XE +0.19% has so far had a strong year as sponsorships of teams and individuals at big sporting events helped drive up sales and profit, but the world’s second-biggest maker of sporting goods behind Nike Inc. NKE +0.49% Thursday cut its sales forecast for 2012 because of further problems at Reebok. The German company acquired…
Broadcast on ABC Radio National on June 23, 2010. People from around the world braved the scorching heat in Timor Leste’s capital this weekend to participate in the country’s first-ever marathon. In an effort to promote peace and understanding, the nation’s best athletes have come together to run the streets of Dili with competitors from Australia, Europe,…