My eyes teared up as I crossed the start line of Florida’s Long Haul 100. I was unexpectedly emotional after years of wanting to attempt the distance but having been sidelined by injuries.
The 4 Fore 30 Backyard Ultra in Missouri has changed a lot over the last few years. In 2023, the event was held on a golf course, in 2024 it switched to a road out-and-back and in 2025 the race introduced its most beautiful and complex loop yet.
Overgrowth in the desert is not like overgrowth where I grew up on the East Coast, where you can just swing through it and maybe feel the sweat of the last runner. I think I may have left some skin and maybe a little blood behind.
The Montebello Country Store sits unassumingly on a country road high atop the Blue Ridge Mountains in Nelson County, Virginia. Life is noticeably slower here, with no cell service to be found, but plenty of horses and cattle.
After giving a talk to a group of school kids and describing the sport of ultrarunning, they gave me mixed looks of confusion, awe and concern for my sanity.
The Tussey Mountainback may best be known for its iconic, single-loop 50-mile course on mostly unpaved forest roads. The Mountainback’s 50-mile race has seen 26 incarnations since its inception in 2000.