Geoff Roes’s Alaska Mountain Ultraruning Camps

An interview with Geoff Roes about his upcoming Alaska Mountain Ultrarunning Camps

GreenLaces

What happens when you combine an environmentally-conscious running blog, an overworked editor, and the holidays – a post about GreenLaces! GreenLaces is simple, yet commendable environmental commitment program in which you (or someone else) makes a promise to the planet, donates $5 for a pair of green laces, and then wear a pair of green [...]

Greeting Cards for Runners

While you shouldn’t except a greeting card from iRunFar this holiday season, we’d like to introduce you to Far Gone Greetings and its line of running-related greeting cards. This impressively large selection of humorous cards were created by a runner who just launched Far Gone last month. Yes, many of them are groaners (see the [...]

iRunFar Survival Tip #2 – Emergency Signal Mirrors

You’re in the middle of an easy 10-miler on a trail just outside of town. While up on little-used ridge top trail, you twist your ankle and snap your fibula. You get up and try to hobble down the trail, but the terrain is too technical for you to make worthwhile progress. Seeing as how [...]

iRunFar Survival Tip #1 – Emergency Electrolyte Sources

If you are ever stuck out on the trail or the road with water, but no electrolytes consider using your head… or, more specifically, your hat. If you’re like me, you don’t wash your running hat all the time. During this time various salts build up in and on the hat. When in need, just [...]

Running, Diet, and the Environment

The final installment in iRunFar’s Earth Week series is a simple plea to consider what you eat. There will be no call for you to become a raw food vegan. No preaching that you steak lovers must forsake meat of the hoof forever in favor of tofu and tempeh filled life. Nope, just read on [...]

weRunFar: Runners Seeing Green

In the weRunFar contribution to iRunFar Earth Week series, we’ll share the blogs of a few individuals who espouse their environmental efforts or beliefs in their posts or actions. Read on to find out out about the Eco-Runner and Race Green blogs, as well as Farther Faster’s sustainable running post. Eco-RunnerFirst up is Sam Huber [...]

Ales Well – Beer Brewed with the Finest Glucosamine and Chondroitin

Inspired by a recent conversation among the newly formed Wasatch Speed Goat Mountain Racing Team, we here at iRunFar have developed what is sure to be the next must have recovery supplement for trail runners – Ales Well. Ales Well combines the advanced joint health-supporting compounds glucosamine and chondroitin with the timed test anesthetic power [...]

Simplify Your Life

A recent change in personal circumstances was a catalyst for me to me to consider change in my life or, perhaps more accurately, changing my life. I’m hoping to get ideas on ways to simplify one’s life – from tips regarding minimizing time spent on mundane everyday tasks to reprioritizing and overhauling one’s entire life. [...]

My Places – Anthony Portera edition: Rockefeller State Park Preserve, New York

My friend Anthony Portera from over at Run-A-Long-Way blog was kind enough to write the following post on Rockefeller State Park Preserve as the second installment of the My Places series here at iRunFar. (Last week, I posted about Potomac Overlook Park.) Tony’s a great guy I first met as he came into an aid [...]