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The Lake Sonoma 50 Mile.  On Saturday, March 27 Larissa and I headed north of San Francisco for a relaxing trip up to the wine country.  Relaxing of course being John Medinger’s Lake Sonoma 50 Mile, a friendly course with 10,500′ of climbing.  We arrived to the start at around 5:45am and hung out with [...]

The Way Too Cool 50k, my first race since HURT.  I had a good two months between the races, but I wasn’t quite where I wanted to be in terms of training going in to Cool.  It took me quite some time to recover from HURT (dang you Nathan for seeming to have a rapid [...]

The H.U.R.T. Trail 100 Mile.  Whew, where to begin. In early August, 2009 I headed out to a Tiki Bar in Oakland with my buddies Nathan Yanko and Rick Gaston.  We were meeting up with the usual odd collection of local ultra runners (all of us odd) to celebrate finishes of summer 100’s and the [...]

We finished up the HURT 100 this morning.  Results are being updated via the link here – HURT Results – 2010.  A huge congrats to Gary Robbins and Tracy Garneau for setting new course records for both the men’s and women’s times!.. amazing for how difficult the course is.  Nathan took 2nd with what looks [...]

Goodbye 2009.  You have been a great year.. a blur.  Looking back you were filled with memorable moments; 13 ultras, 2 marathons, incredible adventure runs.  At the start of 2009 I could not have imagined the friends I would meet, the distances I would complete, and views that I would see along the way. At [...]

Being back in New Mexico this past weekend for the Christmas holiday was a great opportunity to get out on some of the local trails in the Albuquerque area.  On the Saturday after Christmas I stopped into Heart & Sole Running Store, a great local shop in Albuquerque, to see if anyone there could recommend [...]

It was finally here.  The first race that I have run twice.  I was excited about the 2009 North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile as it was finally a chance to see what my first full year of running and training would result in for improvements on my times. As quick background, two years ago [...]

By Randy Katz Over the last year, it’s  been difficult for me to get my buddy Brett Rivers into the rock climbing gym since he has been spending so much time on the trails.  He tried several times to get me to trade in my climbing shoes for trail running shoes, but I was pretty [...]

FUN.  What a fun day.  On November 14 a bunch of friends and I headed up to Muir Beach for Pacific Coast Trail Runs’ Muir Beach 50k.  There were several reasons I was excited for this race, but the two main ones were 1.) the course was on a lot of familiar trails that I [...]