How hard can riding 100 miles with upwards of 15,000 feet of climbing and descending on a mountain bike be? I had volunteered at the Cascade Cream Puff a couple of years, and, while I had little experience on a mountain bike and didn’t even own one, I thought it looked like fun. Real fun. …
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 …
Here we are only 11 days away from WS and it’s time for our final WS synchroblog series for 2010, Ask An Ultrarunner. Hopefully you have enjoyed this series of questions and answers. It’s been fun for me to see Hal and Meghan’s responses (when HK has the time to synchroblog). And, of course, my …