Ultrarunning and Trail Running Blogs/Websites
March 7, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 14 Comments
Below are some blogs and website that I read regularly. Take a look and hopefully you’ll enjoy them as much as I do!
Websites with Broader Focus, but Interesting and Relevant Content
- Outside Online – A content buffer that is updated daily with adventure stories, environmental news, gear reviews, and other good reads
- The Gear Junkie – THE place for outside gear reviews. Stephen Regenold and his stable of writers post reviews of a wide variety of outdoor recreation gear. Stephen, a syndicated newspaper columnist, also posts travel and adventure stories that are well worth reading.
Ultrarunning Team Blogs and Websites
- La Sportiva
- Mountain Running Blog – Great race recaps of some of the big ultras and other trail races, occasional stories about team members
- Adventure Running Blog – Group blog with tales of adventurous runs (as opposed to adventure racing)
- Salomon – Ace trail writer (and runner) Adam Chase heads up Salomon Running – Insiders, which includes general trail running news in addition to Salomon updates
- Inov-8 – Mark Lundblad and company do a great job of tracking what the Inov-8 runners are up to.
- Team Pearl Izumi-Smith – Solid redesigned team website. Mostly team member updates at the moment with content to become more inclusive.
- Montrail – Occasional news. Also used for intrateam communication.
- Vasque – Athlete results, shoes updates, and occasional reader interaction
Personal Running Blogs
- Hank Dart (Run Junkie) – Idaho
- Donald Buraglio (Running and Rambling) – California
- Geoff Roes – Montrail – Alaska
- Andy Jones-Wilkins – Patagonia – Idaho
- Matt Hart – Montrail/nuun – Utah
- Meghan Hicks – California
- Sean Meissner – Montrail – Oregon
- Scott Dunlap (A Trail Runner’s Blog) – Inov-8 – No. California
- Antony Portera – Brooks – New York
- Karl Meltzer – Various Sponsors – Utah
- Devon Crosby-Helms – Salomon – Washington
- Krissy Moehl (Krissy’s old blog) – Patagonia/Vasque – Oregon
- Greg Crowther – Washington
- Eric Grossman – Montrail – Virginia
- Anton Krupicka – New Balance – Colorado
- Craig Thornley Team Sunsweet – Oregon
- Uli Steidl – Washington
- Lisa Smith-Batchen – Pearl Izumi-Smith/nuun – Idaho
- Michael Wardian – The North Face/Marathonguide.com – Virginia
- Leslie (a.k.a. Banff Trail Trash) – Canada
- Sophie Speidel – Virginia
- Annette Bednosky – Montrail – North Carolina
- Dane Rauschenberg – Utah
- Mike from Banff – British Columbia (awesome pics!)
[* Denotes blog added or updated in most recent update]
[Last edited 1/30/10]
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what a great resource!
you know, when I first started blogging two and half years ago, there was no real centralized resource for all ultrarunning blogs, training suggestions, etc., and I made it my goal to do so (especially the blogs). but it’s all grown so much over the years, that I can’t keep up! I gave up about six months ago
Angie,
I think any ultrarunner who’s ever used the web has thought of making a comprehensive resource… and it’s still not out there! I started working on the back bones of such a website a few summer ago, but alas irunfar.com remains undone. At this point, I know I just don’t have the time to do that. Instead, I’ll post what blogs I read (I’m aware of many others) and pull together some more specific resource compilations.
Yo Bryon! Well done at Mitchell. Love all the resources on your site. Looks like the running is going well. One thing I noticed in running last year was starting my training too soon and too many races early in the year at harder efforts. When my goal races came around in the early fall things went well, but I was fried.
Can I add your site to mine?
take it sleazy,
Wynn
Wynn,
Thanks for stopping by. Please feel free to add my site to your – I hope you don’t mind that I did the same!
I hear ya on the too many races too early in the year. Last year I was already burnt out when I ran Way Too Cool. Seriously. I only ran Mount Mitchell and Old Pueblo back-to-back as they were the focal points of trip with or to visit friends. As you can probably tell from my having taken around a 100 pics at OP50, I was running that one as a long training run. At this point I only have one race on my calendar for the entire remainder of the year – the HAT Run 50k in a few weeks. I’ll surely add more races to my schedule, but for now my plan is to get into a good training rhythm and slowly and steadily build my mileage. I want to be running on all cylinders come fall… but I still have to get in shape to pace some big dogs in April, May and June.
Bryon “Sleazy McBreezy” Powell
This was good news bears, Bron. Thanks for it.
Plus I better actually start racing well to be included in the company I am keeping!
LOL Dane…I looked at this post and said ‘wow, I’m the only normal runner in this group…what an honor!’
Dane and aharmer,
What am I gonna learn from genetic mutants who finish are already finished the 100 miler when I’ve still got 4 (or 14) hours left to go. As my blogroll suggests, I think I can learn from and be entertained by a wide spectrum of folks.
Two questions for Wynn and aharmer if y’all check back in:
Wynn, I’m pretty sure that I made up where you live – where you at?
aharmer, what’s your name? I feel like an idiot every time I write aharmer when I referring to you!
thanks for putting this together. Great info here. I have about 24 (and growing) ultrarunning blogs tagged with del.icio.us. http://del.icio.us/t_liles/ultrarunning_blogs
its continually growing. I need to add some of the ones you have listed to my list. Keep up the great work!
Hi Bryon,
Adam is the first name. Wynn and I prowl several of the same trails but I’ll let him tell you where he calls home.
Good to meet you, Adam.
I agree with everyone — great resource. But you left out my blog!
See you at Grindstone. I just put up a little story about it yesterday.
Thanks,
Neal Jamison
http://ultratraining101.blogspot.com/
Man what a helpful blog you’ve created. Been very useful as I’ve started my own little running blog RunnerDude’s Blog (http://ncrunnerdude.blogspot.com) Keep up the great job and keep inspiring me!
Thad
Nice job!!
Thanks for such a useful resource. I guess the numbers of runners who are also bloggers goes to show that there is a lot to think about on those long runs.
Dax
http://dirtyrunning.blogspot.com