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 [...]

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 [...]

By Greg Tseng I turned 30 this past Saturday and what better way to celebrate than run over 30 miles at the Muir Beach 50K with my fellow Endurables.  Several of us are training for The North Face 50 Miler in three weeks so this was technically a “practice race” but it felt quite real [...]

The Santa Cruz Mountains 50k… as soon as I saw this race on PCTR event calendar I knew that I wanted to run it.  As quick background, I was born to hippie parents living in the Santa Cruz Mountains, just a couple miles from the SCM50k course.  Although we moved a couple years after I [...]

Congratulations to David Schoenberg, male winner of the Montrail-Trail Run Times “My First Ultra” Contest!  David receives a great gear package courtesy of Montrail.  Enjoy David’s recap of the 2008 Oak Mountain 50k in Alabama! On Saturday, March 22, 2008, I had be pleasure of joining around 100 runners at the Oak Mountain 50k outside [...]

Congratulations to Lisa Gunnoe, female winner of the Montrail-Trail Run Times “My First Ultra” Contest!  Lisa receives a great gear package courtesy of Montrail.  Enjoy Lisa’s recap of the Bartlett Park Ultras 50k, just a couple weeks ago in Tennessee! The Bartlett Park Ultras 50k, by Lisa Gunnoe My obsession with running the Bartlett Park [...]

Congratulations to Trisha Swanson, female winner of the Montrail-Trail Run Times “My First Ultra” Contest! Trisha receives a free pair of trail running shoes courtesy of Montrail.  Enjoy Trisha’s recap of the Chuckanut 50k (and consider yourself warned if you are ever offered a ride in the barfmobile)! The Chuckanut 50k, By Trisha Swanson Whose [...]

Over the weekend of May 30 Nathan Yanko, Larissa Polischuk, and I headed east on a mini-roadtrip out to Fish Camp, CA (2 miles south of the southern gate to Yosemite) for the 20th Annual Shadow of the Giants 50K.  We were able to get out of San Francisco shortly after noon on Friday and [...]

Congratulations to SF Bay Area locals and La Sportiva team runners Leor Pantilat and Caitlin Smith for extremely strong performances at the Ohlone Wilderness 50K on Sunday, May 31.  Pantilat finished in 4:29.47 knocking nearly 10 minutes off the previous course record.  Smith was first female finishing in 5:04.50.  This is the third (THIRD!) 50K [...]

There are not many races that I have signed up for day-of, and in the instances that I have they were usually the impromptu 5K or 10K fun run.  However, this past weekend Nathan Yanko and I were ‘convinced’ to run the Redwood Park 50K the day before the race by Brett Rivers…while on a [...]