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While there’s a Golden Ticket race going on in New Zealand, our North American UltraRunning Calendar winds up the second week of February in preparation for another Golden Ticket race next weekend in Arizona. This weekend look towards some smaller, yet fun ultras in places like Montana, Georgia, Nevada, Texas and California.
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As trail runners, we often forget that the land we traverse is rooted in history with trails used and maintained by generations of Indigenous cultures. Those untouched areas still exist but are much harder to find. In North America, there is land within the territory of the 657,745 acres of Mount Edziza Provincial Park in beautiful northwest British Columbia.
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New to the Scarpa lineup this winter, the Ribelle Run Kalibra G is presented as an “all-weather, all-terrain juggernaut of a trail runner.” Scarpa has essentially taken the bones of the Ribelle Run shoe and winterized it. In doing so, they have created a much lighter-profile workhorse to tackle snow and ice compared to a bulky pair of spikes and gaiters strapped to regular trail shoes.
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February’s first Ultra Weekend Recap is headlined by a slew of American Record (AR) attempts in California’s capital with one success, a 100-miler and 100k in Texas as well as a handful of other events around the country.
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A year from the release of the Suunto 9 Peak, the Finnish company has released the newest iteration: the 9 Peak Pro, which is an upgrade to the previous model in battery life, revamped user interface and GPS availability.
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As we move into the second month of the year, the UltraRunning Calendar sees an uptick of events including the 45th edition of a 50/50 held in Sacramento, a large 100-miler in Texas, a 50k on Maryland’s eastern shore and as always, a lot more events to choose from no matter which part of the continent you are on.