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 [...]

The first question I kept getting asked about Pike’s Peak was ‘Why?’ so that is how I’m going to start this re-cap. In the midst of my quarter-life crisis (yes, they do exist) I found myself working as a waitress where the required uniform was a polyester vest, black skirt, fishnet stockings and a pin [...]

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 [...]