Anything related to California’s Western States Endurance Run
Updated June 14, 2012 This post was originally published in February 2010. Are the elite trail ultrarunners of today different from those of previous generations? Are they more competitive? Are they out to set course records whereas the ultrarunners of the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s were satisfied just completing the distance? We sure have seen …
It was just over one year ago that I decided to jump into the blogging world, and what a year it has been. I had kicked around several ideas on what type of blog to have, including politics; one of many aspects of ski patrolling; religion (or lack thereof); some nerd topic like computing clusters, …
The mixed emotions experienced and observed at the WS lottery were draining today. When someone from the audience was picked, you could see the joy and excitement on their faces whether it was their first time running the race or their 8th time. It’s fun to see. While observing this on others I was also …
How many times have you refreshed ultrasignup to see the current count of applicants? A week ago there were 1687 applicants. That’s now down to 1527 as I post today. How many times have you checked this site to see if there are any new comments or posts from AJW, Jasper, Gilligan, Twiet, Monkeyboy, Cougarbait, …
If you haven’t seen, WS RD Greg Soderlund has posted an explanation of the WS lottery process to be held on Dec 5 in Auburn, on the Latest News Page. Thank you, Greg, for clearing up many of the questions that were raised in the comments on my last post. With 465 names to be …