Anything related to California’s Western States Endurance Run
A couple of months ago my wife and I were enjoying a nice meal outside on the deck of a beautiful home overlooking the McKenzie River. It was a business meeting of sorts, mostly with people who work with my wife in technology and education. The conversation, as is usually the case in these types …
With the announcement today by the Western States Board of Directors that the search has begun for the successor to the retiring RD, Greg Soderlund, after the 2013 race, I thought it might be interesting to take a little stroll back in time and look at who the previous RDs and presidents of the board …
I had an interesting thread of comments on my last facebook status update two days ago and it has motivated me to write this post asking 2011 WS runners to share. Hopefully it will generate a good discussion, and collectively, we might learn something. That status update was that Lewis Taylor and I, because we …
Finish line at #WS100 is an awesome display of human achievement and exhaustion. Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. That was my tweet a little after 5am on Sunday, after the last 24-hour finisher pushed around the track to cross the line with about 15 seconds to spare before the clock reached 5am. She got …
With all these changes to the Western States course because of record snowfall (or lack of snowmelt) announced today – no Lyon Ridge, Red Star Ridge, Robinson Flat; no crew access until 55 miles at Michigan Bluff; only two crew members at each shuttle aid station after that – I can understand how runners and …