Cactus Roulette offers a unique concept: spin a tri-colored roulette wheel to determine which of three loops (1.9, 2.6 or 3.6 miles) you’ll run next through Clinton Lake State Park. As fate would have it, Cactus Roulette perfectly coincided with our training plan for a 48-hour event.
Understanding the psyche of a DNF is nearly impossible. It’s like trying to fit the complex human brain into a box just so it can be marketed. As someone who has continued their “love affair” with endurance sports for over 14 years, I’m no rookie to a DNF.
Crashing into a deer at 30mph wasn’t on my morning ride agenda. One second, I was enjoying the peace of a solo ride in the predawn darkness—then, in an instant, I was airborne, ejected over my handlebars.
This year marked the 31st running of the Mountain Mist 50k in Huntsville, Alabama, and with a large field of over 500 entrants, plenty of people had the opportunity to run this historic race.
The idea for the Rocky Mountain Slam (RMS) was conceived by Phil Lowry, Leland Barker, Roch Horton, Hans-Deiter Weisshaar and others back in the early 2000s. Their goal was to put together a race series promoting the running scene in the Mountain West region of the United States.
Weakness and instability in the knees aren’t common, but something that I have seen in runners struggle with throughout my career.