by Casey McGuire
I will spit and scratch with the best of them, so I’m not Mr. Sophisticated out there on the trail, but there are just some simple rules that all trail runners should know. The most important thing to know is to stay out of my way. That is, more or less, […]

by Casey McGuire
A runner is a runner is a runner. Wrong! Of course, I don’t mean to offend anyone, and if you’re running, great. It is simply that I try to enthusiastically shout about trail running as loudly as I can through type. So, trail runners, I’m sure you saw this one coming, and pavement […]

by Peter Laurie
It’s distance running that calls for character, intelligence, and bodies that can look unattractively emaciated.

Okay. Let me declare my interest.
I never ran competitively. Indeed I was not much of an athlete at all as a youngster; and that’s a gross understatement. But in my early 30s, in order to lose weight I started […]

How to lose 120 pounds quickly and keep it off: Dump your girlfriend and change your phone number. For the ladies, follow a similar approach; you may stand to lose more weight. It’s worked for me.
Oh, hell yeah, I’m going to poke fun at gimmicks! We see them all the time. […]

by Dennis Fisher
After years of running almost exclusively on the roads, I’ve recently started putting in a lot of miles on trails. And I love it. I can’t get enough of slogging through the mud, jumping over downed trees, scrambling over rocks and splashing through streams. I come back from a run and my legs […]

by Casey McGuire
If you are reading this, I am assuming you will not be one to take offense to any of this. Pretty intriguing setup there eh? I simply mean to poke a little fun at a particular species of the sedentary family. I am, for the sake of this story, going […]

by Casey McGuire
People run for their health. People run to lose weight. People run to avoid the cops, catch a bus, or to chase the ice cream truck. Trail runners, however, run on trails because they want to be running on trails. There is no more complexly simple way of putting […]

by Norman Klein
The year was 1974. The Western States 100-Mile One-Day Ride across the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California was about to begin. Unfortunately, one rider, Gordon Ainsleigh, was unable to take the starter’s command because of a chronic lameness in his horse.
Rather than sitting out a race too dear to his heart to miss, […]

The whole nation thought he was a crazy old man to undertake an almost impossible feat. Most feared that he would die trying. But this humble old man proved all the critics wrong.
Cliff Young, at 61 years of age, participated in 1983’s Sydney to Melbourne race. Considered to be the world’s toughest […]

by Ingfei Chen
Biomechanical research reveals a surprising key to the survival of our species: Humans are built to outrun nearly every other animal on the planet over long distances.
Late one night over beers in the Welsh hamlet of Llanwrtyd Wells, an innkeeper got into an argument with a foxhunter about who could run faster, man […]