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Even with winter hanging on here in the Pacific NW (we woke up to snow on the ground at URM’s HQ in Bend), March races around the country are pushing forth. Below are some highlights for the weekend of March 12, but as always, you can check out our complete UltraRunning Calendar for nearly two dozen more events.
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Ultrarunners tend to be independent and self-sufficient. These characteristics allow us to climb over mountains, blaze cold pathways before dawn and problem solve along hundreds of miles of trails. While these autonomous attributes are commendable, there are far-reaching benefits to creating and nourishing a running community.
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With spring right around the corner, the 2022 UltraRunning Calendar moves into March this weekend and as per usual, stays loaded from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The 32nd annual Way Too Cool, a notoriously competitive 50k in Northern California that runs on part of the Western States course, is on Saturday, March 5. Even with nearly 4,000 feet of elevation gain, Way Too Cool often delivers some of the fastest 50k times in the country.
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The Grandmaster Ultras would be business as usual as far as most ultra events are concerned except, and apologies to younger runners here, you are required to have lived at least half a century in order to participate. Grandmaster, in other words, is where the older generation gets to feel young again and pursue their ultra dreams without all those pesky young runners gumming up the works.
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Flagstaff’s Trueheart Brown joins the URM podcast to talk about his first win at a stacked Black Canyon 100K in Arizona, nabbing a Golden Ticket to Western States. True talks to Scotty about his race-day experience (only his fourth ultra) and his approach to WS100, which will be his first 100-miler. True also shares his experience working on a hot shot crew and how it has prepared him for ultras. True is a fire management officer with the Flagstaff Ranger District in the Cononino National Forest. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, with his wife and two children.
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Three years ago, I made a goal that started out as a simple pipe dream. During the fall of 2018, I not only started training for my first 100-mile race, but I also got my skydiving license. Around this time, I heard about a race called the Skydive Ultramarathon. It was then that I told myself I wanted to become the first person to hit their 100th skydive followed by running 100 miles.