Oregon Ultra Domination

Have you noticed how many fast ultrarunners live in Oregon these days?  How many good races there are in Oregon these days?  Now, I realize our California friends to the south may still be a little sensitive after losing the bid to host the 2008 US Olympic Track and Field Trials and then not even …

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Lord Balls retort to lc

Guest Post by Lewis Taylor Open letter to lc from Lord Balls Re: Lc’s leadville race report Dear lc, That’s a nice race report. Cute. If you had listened to me, you wouldn’t have had to fly 1,000 miles so you could poop and puke and DNF at Leadville. You should have stayed home and …

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How to prepare for Western States 100

Last year I was asked by several first time Western States runners in Eugene what they needed to do to prepare for the race and that prompted me to write these thoughts down.  If you’re running WS this year for the first time this might help you.  If you’ve run it before but bombed then …

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lc’s leadville race report

Open letter to Lord Balls from lc November 24, 2008 Dear Lord Balls, Let me start off by reminding you that I am the King of Cool.  No, not Steve McQueen you shallow idiotic spunkbite.  Remember that race in California that you have been running for years and can never break four hours at?  The …

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