Anything related to California’s Western States Endurance Run
At this time of year when the days are short, the rain is plentiful, the trails are muddy, and getting out of the house for a run after a grueling half-day of work is sometimes more challenging than beating AJW in a mile, it is fun to think about how the events on the last …
With the opening of registration for the last of the two-time losers today, can’t help but notice some of the changes for WS 100 which is less than ten months away. First, the entry fee has been raised from $295 to $370. Remember we asked on this blog last year what the consequences of a …
What an incredible race last weekend at the 2010 WS 100 miler. There were lots of pre-race predictions about how the big four (Killian Jornet, Anton Krupicka, Geoff Roes, Hal Koerner) would fare. I predicted on AJW’s blog that only one of those four would finish and I expected it to be the experienced two-time …
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“No IV,” I told the medical volunteers at highway 49 as I stumbled into the 93 mile aid station with Ticer at about 11:30pm and tried to balance on the scale. I didn’t want to disqualify myself by getting an IV even though two liters of saline and an antiemetic sounded really tempting. With those …
Guest Post by White Trash (Alan Abbs) It’s getting to be that time. For some, that means “Western States,” “Western,” “States,” “The Big Dance,” “The Track Meet,” or whatever else you refer to it as. But as we described on this blog last December, this weekend is part one of a competition that we have …