In this issue
25 Beginner’s Corner – Planning Your 2013 Race Schedule
26 Nutrition – Gluten-Free and Ultra by Jill Puleo
29 Hula Hoop – Run From Your Core by Betty Hoops
30 Poetry – Why I Endure by Rachel Nypaver
32 On My Bookshelf – The Rancid Walnut reviewed by Lisa Bliss
34 International – Cavalls del Vent
91 Milestones and Letters
92 Run Gently Out There
94 Cactus Rose Photo Collage
Feature races
7 Vermont 50
12 Rock/Creek StumpJump 50K
16 JFK 50
23 Quad Dipsea
Race reports
36 Bohemian Alps 50K
38 Antelope Island
40 Arkansas Traveller
41 Can Lake
43 Cuyamaca
45 Rio del Lago
46 West Virginia Trilogy
47 Dick Collins Firetrails 50
53 Le Grizz
52 Twin Peaks
55 GLIRC 6-Hour 60th
56 Big Backyard Ultra
57 Des Plaines
58 Door County Fall 50
59 Whistler 50
60 Bimbler’s Bluff
61 Cactus Rose
63 Chicago Lakefront 50-50
66 Ghost Train
67 Javelina Jundred
71 Surf the Murph
72 Stone Steps 50K
73 Ozark Trail 100
75 Peachtree City
76 Bills’ Bad Ass
77 Chimera
79 TNF Endurance Challenge Championship
Race Results in alphabetical order, beginning on page 82
24 the Hard Way
Autumn Leaves
Bad Apple Ultra
Big Brad Ultras
Blackwater River
Cave Creek Thriller
Children’s Hospital Charity Run
Chino Hills
Croatan 24-hr
Cumberland Trail
Deadman Peaks
Double Dirty Dozen
Farmdale Trail Run
Fire on the Mountain
Folsom Lake Fall
Forest Glen
Fort Steilacoom
Glacial Trail
GOATZ Trail Runs
Horseshoe Lake
John Holmes Trail
Lake Chabot
Lake Perry Rocks
Malibu Canyon
Mendon Ponds
Mogollon Monster
Mt. Tam Trail
Owen-Putnam State Forest
Palo Duro
Pass Mountain
Pioneer Saloon
Pony Express Trail
Presque Isle
Rockledge Rumble XVI
Rocky Raccoon 50K
Run with Scissors
SRRA Sask 50K
St. Pats 24-Hour
Taterbug 30
Texas Trails
TNF Challenge – Atlanta
Turkey and Taturs
Whiskeytown
Wild Sebastian
Max King conquers the JFK 50 in record time
Geoff Baker/Oellaworks