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 [...]

By Andrea Polischuk Since my sister Larissa is big into trail running, I tend to read this blog from time to time.  While most of the posts are about winning trail races and not being able to stop smiling 50+ miles into races, I thought Trail Run Times could use a somewhat different perspective of [...]

By Ken Michal [Nathan, I can't wait to see you in the morning! I've got a good luck charm for you to wear around you ankle during the race. It looks just like the timing transponder that PCTR will give you...] The San Francisco One All Day!  Is a unique test of spirit and character.  [...]

This weekend was the 4th annual San Francisco One Day, a 24 hour race on a 1.06 mile loop around Crissy Field at the north tip of San Francisco.  My hat is off to all runners as this seems like pure madness to me.. running for 24 hours on a flat 1 mile loop!  The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Whew, took me long enough to get this post up.  I’ll keep this short but try to include some photos and links to other runners’ stories as Nathan’s recap does a great job describing Skyline to the Sea 50k from the front of the pack (front of pack being all runners who managed to finish [...]

The Skyline-to-the-Sea 50K put on by PCTR was a great way to spend a Sunday.  I meet with Larissa Polischuk and Brett Rivers in San Francisco early Sunday morning and started the drive down highway 1 towards the shuttle pick-up. Once arriving we had enough time to organize our nutrition, grab a plastic bag for [...]