Wood River Valley ultramarathon runner Andy Jones-Wilkins bested a field of 250 competitors to win the 19th Annual Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run on Saturday.
Jones-Wilkins, the headmaster at The Community School in Sun Valley, finished the race in 15 hours and 53 minutes, 19 minutes ahead of his closest competitor and one of the […]

A marathoner who ran 7,000 kilometres across the Sahara has set himself a new challenge: to run the West Coast Trail in 24 hours as part of an odyssey of running the toughest 400 km to be found on Canada’s three coastlines.
Ray Zahab of Ottawa, who ran 70 km a day for 111 straight days […]

by Christian Griffith

That was a hard 31 miles - 8 hours and fifteen minutes of hard.
I was looking for that ‘Zen’ experience and I found it at the SweetH20 50K Trail Run. There were hills. Boy, were there hills. There was a plethora of technical terrain with flavors of jagged rocks, big ol’ fallen trees, […]

I apologize to any readers for my absence for a couple of days this week.  I would like to say I was in the Ozarks training up and down some beautiful trails, but I wasn’t.  I’m not even sure where the Ozarks are, to be quite honest.  That isn’t to say that if I knew […]

Marv Bradley hasn’t had a cigarette in 18 years.
But ever since he kicked the habit, he has gained a new addiction: running.
Once Bradley, 68, decided to put down the lighter and pick up the running shoes, he’s been hooked, smitten, a lost cause, so to speak. And he wouldn’t have it any other way.
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She wasn’t just the top female finisher. She was the top overall.
Petra McDowell beat everyone in the Wasatch SpeedGoat 50K in Utah Saturday, covering the 31.07 miles in five hours and 40 minutes.
The trail race was designed by Karl Meltzer, the 2006 Ultrarunner of the Year. The course features 9,000 feet of vertical climbing through […]

A marathoner who ran 7,000 kilometres across the Sahara has set himself a new challenge: to run the West Coast Trail in 24 hours as part of an odyssey of running the toughest 400 km to be found on Canada’s three coastlines.
Ray Zahab of Ottawa, who ran 70 km a day for 111 straight days […]

As Rich DeSimone stood waiting for the start of the Western States Endurance Run to begin, he listened as an announcer prepared the runners for the grueling race ahead.
Alongside 400 other competitors in the mountains of Squaw Valley, Calif., where they would soon run 100 miles, climb 19,000 feet up before crashing 21,000 feet down […]

Lured by three ultramarathon options and world-renowned scenery, distance runners from coast to coast and beyond are trickling in to the area to take part in the Tahoe Rim Trail 50K/50M/100M Endurance Runs.
Come Saturday at 5 a.m., more than 400 ultrarunners between the three races will filter out on the Tahoe Rim Trail from the […]

Anywhere in the world, 100 miles is a long distance to run.
But when those 100 miles include 33,992 feet of climbing at an average elevation of 11,017 feet and are run in less than two days, well, 100 miles can seem like 1,000.
Sunday, Markus Mueller, of Avon, became part of one of most grueling century […]