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We stay in the desert for the headliner of this weekend’s festivities in Las Vegas, the Jackpot Ultrarunning Festival. With 6/12/24/48/72-hour races plus a 50-miler and the USATF 100-mile Road National Championships on Friday, February 18, this event is about as stout as they come.
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I take great comfort in reflecting. It’s fun to relive and remember the highlights from these recent years and a way to constantly remind myself how much fun I’m having, even when times get tough. I’m also painfully aware that nothing is ever certain. These last three years have taught me as much. However, the older I get, the more I find myself leaning into uncertainty.
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It’s Valentine’s Day and in the season of red roses and mad dashes to the local drug store for “heart-shaped anything,” we put together a collection of interviews featuring three different ultrarunning couples. These endearing endurance athletes share stories about how they met and bonded over ultrarunning.
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Things happen deep in the woods, in the middle of the night, with almost a full day of running on your legs. Rocks grow bigger. Tree trunks sway in your headlamp; they turn and stare. Alone, seeing strange things in the dark, it’s difficult to remember why you picked this journey. But this is The Hawk, and out here people have a way of picking you up and helping you keep moving ahead.
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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.