GPS and Trail Racing = Cheating?

Trail Goat, here. Until last week I never would have considered whether wearing a Garmin Forerunner or other GPS device during a trail race to be cheating. While I still don’t think wearing such a device in a race is cheating unless the race director prohibits such devices, I’m no longer sure that it’s sporting. [...]

This Week In Running (8/2 – 8/3)

Welcome back to another edition of This Week In Running! Before we get into what is to come, let’s take a look at a few races in the weekend that was July 26 and 27. The headline race in the ultra running world was the White River 50 Mile Endurance Run in Crystal Mountain, Washington, [...]

Jamie Donaldson, Badwater Champion: A TWIR Special Edition

TWIR: TWIR and iRunFar.com are especially privileged to get to chat with Jamie Donaldson today, fresh off of her victory (1st place female and 3rd place overall) and women’s course record at the 2008 Badwater Ultramarathon. In addition to her victory at Badwater (26:51:33), Jamie has also recorded first place finishes this year at the [...]

END Footwear: The Beginning of Sustainable Footwear (Part 1)

Back in April, iRunFar noted that we were interested to what would come out of END Footwear (nee Outdoor) – a company committed to sustainable footwear from its founding. Four months later END is on the verge of releasing its first lineup of shoes on August 1. In this busy and exciting time for END, [...]

Montrail Ultra Cup Winners and Losers

When this year’s Western States 100 was canceled, iRunFar pointed out a few issues raised by the cancellation. Well one of those issues, the determination as to the winners of the 2007-08 Montrail Ultra Cup has been made. After tallying the results of three MUC races instead of four (the WS100 was to be the [...]

This Week in Running (7/26 – 7/27)

iRunFar is psyched to bring you a new weekly feature – This Week In Running! Tony Portera of the Run-a-Long-Way Blog has kindly agreed to share TWIR directly with the iRunFar community. (Tony previously published TWIR on his blog.) Every week TWIR highlights the coming weekend’s ultramarathons, select marathons, as well as other races that [...]

Pearl Izumi & Smith Optics Form Ultrarunning Team

Back in March, iRunFar reported that Pearl Izumi was rumored to be forming an ultrarunning team based on a comment we received. In private conversations at the time, we speculated that the partner would be Smith Sport Optics. Both the rumor and the speculation are confirmed – Team Pearl Izumi – Smith has formed! Read [...]

Training Update June 9 – July 17, 2008

It’s been a long time since I posted a personal training update. In part that’s due to some not so exciting training the last three weeks in June, but also because I’ve focused on writing other iRunFar posts. Read on for more about my last 5+ weeks of training, the Finger Lakes Fifties 50k, and [...]

Death on the Mountain – Don't Let It Be Yours

Trail runners, this is a warning – if you are headed out of civilization and might encounter severe conditions, be prepared, not complacent. If you don’t, your decision could kill you. Seriously! Just this weekend, two runners died when cold and wet conditions descended on the Zugspitz Extrem-Berglauf, a trail race up Germany’s tallest mountain. [...]

Running Sunglasses Overview

After all the great contributions to trail shoe and sock discussion posts, iRunFar is calling for your suggestions and reviews of running sunglasses. Since y’all were so good at articulating the often minor differences between socks, you should have an easy time describing a product group in which differences are more easily seen. Read on [...]

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