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Local Ultrarunner Jeffrey Stern Completes 68-Mile Backbone Trail in Fastest Known Time

Auburn's Dan Barger Runs First Double Western States

Eat Your Greens Podcast

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Santa Barbara Vertical (and Virtual) Kilometer Interview

La Cumbre Peak rises over 1,000 meters from Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean. It is rare for a mountain this high to be so close to th...

Diamond in the Rough: Wes Judd

Many ultrarunners are familiar with the three types of fun that exist when it comes to the suffering experienced in ultramarathons: Type ...

Olivia Amber: From the East Coast Ski Slopes to the Mt. Tam Trails

Near the Bay Area’s majestic Mt. Tamalpais exists an ultrarunner’s perfect training ground. With hundreds of miles of trails and ideal we...

A February Challenge at FOURmidable 50K

This was the eighth year of the FOURmidable 50K, put on by SingleTrack Running, who uses their mapping sorcery to concoct a 50k that’s no...

The Rise of Ultrarunning

Upon looking at both the oldest and youngest finishers, the story is the same: participation levels in ultrarunning continue to trend upw...

Lee Berube Races Against Himself

The Escarpment Trail 'Run' course record holder and two-time champion Lee Berube is looking to achieve greatness in 2020. The record he's...

A Decade Done

Just getting back into that social media thing after a week completely off followed by a week of limited use and I've got to say friends,...

Ultrarunning Magazine's December 2019 Diamond in the Rough: Kate Olson

Paramount to any race day achievements for Kate is to keep her running lighthearted and adventurous. “There are a lot of longer trails I w...

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Watch Out For Gus Gibbs in 2020

Growing up in what many consider to be the mecca of trail running in Mill Valley, California, it seemed only natural that Gus Gibbs would...

A Diamond in the Rough: Melissa Flores

After dabbling in half marathons during college and running two road marathons in 2018, Sacramento native and former basketball player Me...

A Diamond in the Rough: Rod Farvard

When Rod Farvard crossed the finish line last fall at the Cuyamaca 100K in Julian, California, not only had he just finished his first 10...

The Little Things

photos: Kim Reierson Believe it or not, I actually don't go to the gym (except for the occasional sauna/hot tub/rainy SB day treadmill se...

Thoughts from a ride

photos: Jordan Clark Haggard It took about 801 days to build some confidence back, but I do have some fun cycling related stuff in the wo...

Back to Big Sur in 2020

The Los Padres National Forest and more specifically Big Sur, has played host to some of my greatest endurance challenges over the last d...

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