In this issue
22 Beginners Corner – What Is A “Fat Ass” Race?
24 On My Bookshelf
25 Ultra Double Crossed by John Zeier
26 Active Core Training by Andy DuBois
28 View From the Open Road – ?Why We Bonk
29 Don’t Trash The Trails by John Blue
30 Chaos! Adventure! Trail Run! – The Iznik Ultra by Ian Corless
75 Milestones and Letters
76 Run Gently Out There
Feature races
6 Massanutten
8 Bighorn
17 Hardrock 100
Race reports
60 Badwater 135
34 Born to Run Ultras
46 Desert R.A.T.S.
56 Dirty Dozen
52 Finger Lakes Fifties
36 Golden Gate Dirty Thirty
44 Highlands Sky
38 Kettle Moraine
42 Laurel Highlands
57 Leadville Silver Rush
32 Lt. JC Stone 50K
54 North Fork Trail
50 OSS-CIA Night Run
48 San Juan Solstice
51 Silverton 6-12-24
33 Watershed Preserve
Race Results in alphabetical order, beginning on page 64
Another Dam Run
Berryman Trail
Canyon Meadow
Capon Valley
Chester Woods
CRUD
Dirty German
Full Bloom
Horseshoe Lake
McDonald Forest
Ohlone
Old Dominion
Pigtails Challenge
Pocatello 50
Quicksilver
Rainier to Ruston
Rock On Lake Perry
Rocky Mountain Double
Sage Burner
Squaw Peak 50
Sulphur Springs
TNF Challenge DC
Trail Factor 50K
Wapack And Back
War Eagle Trail
Whoos in El Moro
Wild Wild West
Hardrocker Mark Heaphy on Grant-Swamp Pass above Island Lake, with rock in hand to place on the Joel Zucker memorial at the top
Tanner Johnson