by Jonathan Toker, Ph.D., SaltStick.com May 9, 2009.  With a start, we were off. The annual running of the XTERRA Malibu Creek Trail Challenge 22K began on a pleasantly cool morning with a field of a few hundred of my closest friends, an annual reunion, not to see who had gotten slower or added girth [...]

Wind. Gusting freakin wind!  The first thought that pops into my head when looking back on the Montana de Oro 50K is running some great trail in the hardest wind I have ever felt in my life.  Don’t get me wrong, this race was a blast, but damn the constant wind gusts really added a [...]

Pacific Coast Trail Runs put on another great race this weekend down in Woodside, California (the hills just west of Palo Alto).  I made the drive south from San Francisco with eager anticipation as I was excited to run in the 50K to see what improvement on my time I could make and to run [...]

The Pacific Coast Trail Runs 2009 season kicked off Sunday January 11, 2009 with the Angel Island 25K.  All distances (8K, 16K, 25K) were completely sold out by a week before the race.. 450 runners total!  A strong signal of continued growth for the great trail and ultra running community that exists here in the [...]