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The latest Speedland shoe was created in partnership with elite ultrarunner Dylan Bowman and is named after Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County, CA, where Bowman first rose to fame and built the foundation of his professional career. We tested the GS:TAM trail shoe through miles of steep, sloppy running, including a few 20-mile outings, and will almost certainly employ the shoes in 100k and 100-mile events later in the year.
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Avalanches, white-out weather conditions and blocked roads were all par for the course at this year’s 6633 Artic Ultra Classic. The race is a self-sufficient, non-stop 380-mile foot race that race traverses the Yukon via Dempster Highway and Ice Road, finishing at the banks of the Arctic Ocean.
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The summer of 1990 played quite a big role in my personal development as a runner. It was then that I realized my body could handle running longer distances consistently, which I’m not sure it could have handled earlier, as the gradual base-building over the previous few years helped set me up for success.
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Leading the way in our Ultra Weekend Recap this final weekend of winter is a Pacific Northwest 50k favorite in Bellingham, a notoriously challenging orienteering style race in Tennessee, a 50k in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California and a whole lot more.
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A Long Way from Nowhere is a new film featuring runners taking part in the 150-mile Desert RATS stage race. The course traverses the Kokopelli Trail, which stretches from Fruita, CO, to Moab, UT, during one of the hottest months of the year.
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Training independently—doing things your way, free of charge—is appealing. You can train more intuitively, like Courtney Dauwalter (who isn’t coached), less beholden to a coach’s workouts that might not fit with your life and all of its stressors. If you decide to coach yourself, here are some suggestions to help you make the most of your training.