After Clint Wells finished third at the U.S. 10K Trail Championships in Steamboat Springs, Teva U.S. Mountain Running Team manager Nancy Hobbs told the Steamboat Pilot & Today, “I can’t see why, with how (Wells) ran today, that he wouldn’t be on the team.”
Last week, Hobb’s prediction came true as Wells was named to the […]

32 starters, 25 finishers, 100% singletrack
As the two leaders pulled into the copse of trees marking the turn-around of the Devil’s Backbone 50 miler they were told, “Not to put any pressure on you, but the winner gets their choice of running shoes, hydration system or sunglasses.” Christian and Erich eyed each other speculatively as […]

The eighth annual Canmore Challenge Trail Races, which for the first time included the North American Central American Championships (NACAC), brought with them an abundance of international flavour and firsts this year.
The Saturday morning race day (July 28) at the Nordic Centre included an open one-kilometre and six-km; however, it was the NACAC 12-km race, […]

Our ancestors ran from rampaging mastodons and prowling saber-tooth tigers. Our ancestors ran through jungles and across deserts and beside oceans. Barefoot, our closest human ancestors ran and ran, for what, 150,000 years?
And then, with hide or fiber, they lashed together the first shoes and ran some more.
Centuries later, people emblazoned shoes with swooshing logos, […]