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The second Western States Golden Ticket race on the 2022 UltraRunning Calendar headlines our What’s Up In Ultra column this week. The Aravaipa Racing Black Canyon 100k is on Saturday, February 12, as well as an accompanying 60k on Sunday. Unsurprisingly, the field is ripe with talent, and due to the cancellation of Tarawera earlier this month, there are now six automatic entries into June’s Western States 100 up for grabs.
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For most of her life, Sullivan Summer was known by a different name that was given to her when she was adopted at the age of one. To her, that name is dead. Raised in New Hampshire with a white family, she was the only Black person she knew. For Sullivan, the choice to start over was years in the making—a cycle in her life of taking on the trauma of others and a product of her relationship with the mother that adopted her.
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Even though winter will last at least another six weeks according to our favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, ultrarunning is heating up in 2022. On our first weekend in February, the UltraRunning Calendar has an astounding three dozen races to choose from.
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Ultrarunning legend Pam Smith kicks off Season 3 of the UltraRunning Magazine Podcast just one day after learning that she’ll be burning it up, literally, at Badwater later this year. Pam shares her thoughts about running through the desert, setting four American age group records at the 2021 Desert Solstice Track Invitational, competing for Team USA and much more, including the unsexy side of ultrarunning.
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While running far, climbing mountains and moving for hours on end are keys to success for ultramarathons, we should not overlook the benefits of running faster as we traipse over the trails. There are basic drills and tactics which all trail and ultrarunners can deploy, even in the depths of winter, that have considerable benefits.
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I have come to realize that the true magic moments at Hellgate are indeed the “I have made it this far so that now I may suffer” moments. To have put yourself in a position to really test yourself. Most people don’t ever make it to the beginning of such an exam.