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“Where are the women?” I yelled at my computer last December. Race lotteries had been announced, running calendars had been released and lady runners were quietly missing. It was unacceptable. I wanted to do something crazy to invite women to the Jewel. Something big. Something special.
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I’ve known races in the past to be canceled or postponed, but never the entire season as a whole being more or less shut down. To add to this mix, I lost my favorite sister, Gwen, to complications of the dreaded COVID virus, so I wasn’t feeling at all good about 2020. A sense of melancholy is exactly what I was feeling when I finally decided to try and enter the Heartland 100 yet again this year.
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It was a calm, crisp morning at the start of the Moab 240, as the last group of runners lined up by the arch five minutes before 7 a.m. We hollered in anticipation, as we were about to embark upon 241 miles of remote country before returning to where we started.
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Dan Barger was registered for Western States this year and looking for a way to still get out and experience the course after it was canceled. It seemed that 2020 was the perfect year to try and run a double Western States. The consensus among the tight-knit Auburn, California, endurance community was that it had not been done, and thus, the “Western States 200” was born.
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Current Subscriber? Download PDF of this issue Purchase Back Issue: Dec 2020/Jan 2021 Print+Digital Dec 2020/Jan 2021 (Digital Only) Features Our Favorite Things 2020 by Donald Buraglio 135 Miles with …
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After months of uncertainty with canceled races and FKT attempts, I caught wind that Javelina Jundred might take place. The pancake flat, fully exposed Arizona desert is a far cry from the terrain and climate where you would expect to find this mountain-minded ultrarunning junkie, but I needed something to look forward to.