“No IV,” I told the medical volunteers at highway 49 as I stumbled into the 93 mile aid station with Ticer at about 11:30pm and tried to balance on the scale. I didn’t want to disqualify myself by getting an IV even though two liters of saline and an antiemetic sounded really tempting. With those …
Guest Post by White Trash (Alan Abbs) It’s getting to be that time. For some, that means “Western States,” “Western,” “States,” “The Big Dance,” “The Track Meet,” or whatever else you refer to it as. But as we described on this blog last December, this weekend is part one of a competition that we have …
Here we are only 11 days away from WS and it’s time for our final WS synchroblog series for 2010, Ask An Ultrarunner. Hopefully you have enjoyed this series of questions and answers. It’s been fun for me to see Hal and Meghan’s responses (when HK has the time to synchroblog). And, of course, my …
Updated June 27, 2012 Here are some numbers for you to geek out on while you work and re-work your splits for this coming WS 100 in 17 days. Below is historical weather data for all WS races since Gordy first ran with the horses in 1974. Recall that there have been several different courses …
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While the smart people (a.k.a. the campers) ran from N44 to Foresthill on Saturday of the last weekend of May, I was with a group of 14 nutballs that drove as close to Robinson Flat as we could (about 4 miles). We trudged through 10+ miles of unrunnable snow before we saw the ground. While …