Every good running club does a pub run. DPMR turns ours to 11 by raising the casual 3 mile road jaunt to a casual 50k on 95% single track from the Alibi Ale Works in Incline Village to the other Alibi Ale Works in Truckee. Last year’s Mellow Fellow to Mellow Fellow end-of-season celebration was […]
Group Run: Castle Peak to Sierra City
We will be tackling a 35-mile group run from the Castle Peak trailhead to Sierra City on the luxurious single track of the Pacific Crest Trail! Runners wishing to go shorter can do out-and-backs from either Sierra City or the CP trailhead to spend some miles with and see some friendly faces in the mountains. […]
It has to start somewhere – Western States 100
1:30 a.m. somewhere outside of Cool, CA, I lay an army green down jacket in the dirt, lay my pack above it and lay down on them both. My feet are in a pile of leaves and the dirt coats my legs like flour on pizza dough. Complete relief is all I feel—knowing that I’m […]
Are you afraid of the dark?
It sounded like a really stupid question in the moment, but ended up a good one. I hear there are no stupid questions. A track coach I know and I were having a conversation about why it’s impossible to get high school athletes to do their long runs at an easy pace. A quick answer came to […]
Somewhere new in the same place
Castle Peak 100k 2016, Safety Check #3, Palisades ~6 p.m. JP Prince: “Hey, so, what’s going on? Why are you in distraction mode?” Me: “I’m not! I’m totally fine.” A year a go in the same place, at the same time, JP was completely un-concered about me running 100k on a broken tailbone. […]
Lean In: 2016 Mt. Marathon Race
The first time I sacrificed blood to a race was in 2008. Trying to keep a good spot, I stayed in the thick of the middle pack of my last 3200m race in high school. I was a really angry teenager. So, when the metal spike of the shoes on the girl in front of […]
Broken rules: everything new on race day
In 2005, my freshman year of track, Winters High School sent a 110 high hurdles runner to the CIF state championship meet. In an unfortunate turn that would become an infamous WHS legend, Nick decided to wear new socks for the race, slipped in his shoe, and fell during his final race. At least once […]
The Friendliness of the Ultra Distance Runner
“The person whose calls you always take? That’s the relationship you’re in. I hope you two are very happy together.” –Nate, The Devil Wears Prada. My relationship with running has outlasted almost every personal relationship in my life, certainly every romantic one, and has proven infinitely more complicated. I shut people out on a regular […]
Brockway B&B delivers sleep, sliders, and spirit
Running 200 miles is definitely out on the edge of acceptable athletic feats, right on the cusp of dropping into the abyss of insanity. Even for ultrarunners, the idea can be daunting—the hard-core competitors who had the guts to start the second ever Tahoe 200 Mile Endurance Run are running with one foot hanging off […]
100k to Freedom (Castle Peak 100k Race Report)
Safety checkpoint #3, Palisades, ~8 p.m. JP Prince: “Is that Julia? You’re here!” Me: “Well I told Jenelle I’d write a race report, so here I am! I figured I’d better finish.” When I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a professional musher. As in 100 percent commitment, move to Alaska, own upwards […]
