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 [...]

By Edie Harbaugh Is it easier to run 50 miles the second time? Maybe. But it’s still hard to run 50 miles. On Saturday, December 5 I lined up with my boyfriend Greg at the start of the North Face Endurable Challenge 50 Mile, more confident than I’d felt the prior two years. In 2007 [...]

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 [...]

On November 7 Larissa, my Mom, and I headed up to Stinson Beach from San Francisco to run the Stinson Beach Trail Marathon put on by Envirosports.  I had run the 25k in 2008 as the marathon distance was canceled due to heavy rain.  The weather was perfect this year and I was excited to [...]