The Tahoe Rim 100.  I had been signed up for this race since early morning of January 1, minutes after the race registration opened.  Tahoe was my goal race for mid-2010 and I was interested in seeing what kind of improvement I could achieve on the course where I ran my first 100 mile race [...]

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 [...]

Last Saturday, August 8, 2009, I participated in the Headlands Hundred, organized by Pacific Coast Trail Runs.  The race was set in the Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.  Two options of distance were offered for runners: 50 miles or 100 miles.  The course had been changed from the [...]

For me, my journey to running the Tahoe Rim 100 actually started 11 months earlier, on August 3, 2008, when I completed my first marathon.  The thought of running 26.2 miles was crazy to me at the time, but still sounded fun, and I wanted to soak up a new experience and at least have [...]

I headed up to Squaw/Foresthill/Auburn the weekend of June 27 to spectate and cheer on runners at Western States.  My hat is off to all runners for enduring the heat as I was sweating my butt off just sitting on the sidelines. I am definitely no G-Tach, but I did bring along my point and [...]

By Rick Gaston The first weekend in June was the San Diego 100-Mile Ultra in San Diego’s Cuyamaca Mountains and what a race it turned out to be. The top three runners finished within 8 minutes of one another and Suzanna Bon set a new female CR.  For me personally it proved to be one [...]