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Champion athlete from Ashland hit with hefty medical bills

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John Darling article in the 9/02/2009 Mail Tribune: An Ashland ultra-marathoner who fell gravely ill after winning the 100-kilometer Where’s Waldo race east of Eugene faces another daunting challenge: $25,000 to $30,000 in medical bills. Erik Skaggs, 27, spent six days in local hospitals recovering from acute renal failure, apparently caused by a combination of …

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Running on the Edge

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Daniel Newberry story in the 8/29/09 Mail Tribune: When an athlete pushes himself to the limit, he never knows what will happen. Just ask Erik Skaggs. The 27-year-old Ashland ultramarathoner not only won the USA Track & Field national championship 100 Kilometer — 61 miles — race near Eugene last Saturday, he smashed the course …

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The longest mile and then some

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George Schroeder article in the 7/10/2009 Register-Guard newspaper: He has run a marathon in 2 hours, 26 minutes. So yeah, it was disconcerting when it took Dan Olmstead nearly as long to go less than four miles. This was not quite two weeks ago, during the Western States Endurance Run. He almost finished the 100-mile …

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