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 Friday night and a few of us were down in the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco attending the Reel Rock Film Tour.  It was intermission between climbing movies; we had just watched Alex Honnold free climb Half Dome, the segment was absolutely nuts.  I leaned over to Larissa and Nathan… “so you wanna [...]

Back in mid-August Larissa and I were fortunate enough to spend a couple days up in Oregon while roadtripping up from CA for the Where’s Waldo 100k.  On our first day of the trip we took off early from San Francisco and made it up to Crater Lake National Park to camp for a night [...]

This past weekend Nathan, Larissa, and I were able to make it up to Tahoe to help and see our friend Sarah finish her run of the ENTIRE Tahoe Rim Trail, 165 miles!!  We left San Francisco Saturday at 5:30am with the hopes of helping out and supporting Sarah as much as possible, and if [...]

Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve/ Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve (Skyline Gate- Skyline- Huckleberry Path- Skyline Boulevard (whoops)- Round Top- Quarry Trail- Pond Trail- Volcanic Trail- Round Top Loop- Bay Area Ridge Trail- Skyline– 8.6 miles) While neither Huckleberry nor Sibley have enough trails individually to warrant a run, this was an exquisite combination of trails, and [...]

I just got back from running the Skyline to the Sea 50K put on by Pacific Coast Trail Runs.  La Sportiva runners Leor Pantilat and Caitlin Smith pulled out wins again and both set new course records.  Three runners also broke the 4 hour mark.  Congratulations to all runners at the race!  I’ll add a [...]

One of the difficult — and appealing — things about trail running versus road running is the near-impossibility of comparing various routes and races of equal distances. In 2004, Scott Jurek set the course record in the Western States 100 ultramarathon with a time of 15 hours and 36 minutes. The course record for the [...]