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Posts Tagged ‘100-miles’


Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness

A few weeks ago, I was invited to run Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness, a stretch of the Appalachian Trail where there are no towns and only a few road crossings. The fastest known time for this stretch of the trail is about 39.5 hours, so a bunch of the Trail Monsters and their friends decided [...]

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5 Minutes with Jeff Browning: Running 100 Milers

Ignite is a neat concept that was started in 2006 by Brady Forrest from O’Reilly Media, and they have staged events in over 100 cities around the world. Their motto is, “Enlighten us, but make it quick.” Presenters get to talk about their passions, either personal or professional, and have to follow a specific format. [...]

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Should The Umstead Race Registration Have You Worried?

Yesterday, the Umstead 100 opened registration, but somebody decided to be sneaky and made a fake registration link at Active.com that allowed people to register early (since the race directors decided to let those 29 people into the race.) This seems to me to be an easy way to scam people, just poorly executed given [...]

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Would you share a win?

Imagine that you are in a race, and you have been working with another runner for many miles. You know that you are both running faster than you could have alone, and there’s a $1000 pot for the first place finish. Would you be able to share that win, and the pot, or would you [...]

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This Week Last Year » Running Shoes and Lots of News

This week last year covered a lot of news, and I answered quite a few reader questions. This week last year started off with The Running Shoe FAQ, which explained why runners wear specialty shoes and what makes them different from normal walking shoes. I answered a question from an aerobics instructor about how to [...]

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Western States 100 Has Been Canceled

Due to concerns for runner and volunteer safety, the Western States 100 mile trail race has been canceled. It’s a huge disappointment for all of the runners who are making their way out there right now, and hopefully they are given an opportunity to run next year. This race is extremely limited in the number [...]

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Jamie Anderson will represent Maine at the Western States 100

The lottery for the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run was this afternoon, and there were 3 Mainers attempting to get in through the lottery. Jamie Anderson made it through the lottery after having been chosen within the first 20 picks. James Demer and Stephen Wells were not one of the 191 lottery entrants. Jim [...]

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Writing about your race results

There are thousands of runner’s who write about their training, their racing, and their sport. Some running websites have thousands of readers, others have hundreds, and the rest have only dozens. No matter how many readers a runner’s site has, though, they can still write passionate reports about the races that they have run and [...]

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