My answer to Western States Widow in the last Ask An Ultrarunner synchroblog didn’t sit well with at least one of the readers of this blog. Dear Ask An Ultrarunner: I must take exception to your response to “Western States Widow” (April 20, 2010). Your response is presumptuous, selfish, and insulting, and lacks a true …
After spending a week in Michigan Bluff I am reminded how much I love the California foothills. Single track trails up the kazoo. Gold rush history. Canyons. Rivers. Crazy weather swings: mid 70s sunny weekends with snow/rain/hail in between. Friendly people. I’ve thought a lot about whether I could move back to the area where I …
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Time for the third installment of the Ask An Ultrarunner synchroblog leading up to the 2010 Western States Endurance Run. We’ve received great questions from you readers. Please keep ’em coming and we’ll do our best to answer them. Today we tackle three of them. Enjoy. Western States Widow asks: It’s Western States training season …
Time for the second installment of the Ask An Ultrarunner synchroblog series leading up to the 2010 Western States 100 on June 26. Thanks to everybody who has submitted questions. We’ve decided to answer three questions from BK, Joe Lee, and GG to PHS Runner who will each get a t-shirt for their contributions. BK …
Are you a WS splits geek? Have you tried studying all the splits for different years from the WS website? Excel files, pdfs, text files, google spreadsheets, etc. While it is awesome to have all the splits available, it is cumbersome to compare different years or different people. Gary Wang, 11 time WS finisher, the …