Anything related to California’s Western States Endurance Run
Now that I have been on the job for four months, I thought it might be fun and informative to share a few numbers with you. These have been some challenging months for me as I try to wrap my head around all the details of the race. 3000 – the number of square feet in …
Guest Post by White Trash (Alan Abbs) By now everyone knows that Craig is the RD in Waiting for Western States. Craig’s been so busy he didn’t even notice I slipped this in the blog queue only a few days after the announcement. Only the Board knows what was said in the interview, but here …
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The Western States 1000 Miles/Ten Days buckle has been a dream of many ultrarunners even before Doug Latimer got the first one in 1988. When I started running WS in 2001 it seemed challenging but totally within my control to get one. Train hard, run smart races, get to Auburn under your own power under …
With the announcement this week that I will be the next race director of Western States 100 starting with the 2014 race, I’m feeling incredibly humbled, honored, anxious, excited, but most of all thankful. Thankful for my wife of 25 years who is fully supportive of this big change in our lives. She not only …
With the announcement yesterday that AJW is putting his personal blog down in a few days I went over there and found the guest post I wrote on May 6, 2008 so that it wouldn’t disappear forever. For context, this was written after a 10 day training camp in Michigan Bluff. AJW had joined us …