Ultra Lotteries: Leaps! and Letdowns

A discussion of how to improve ultramarathon lotteries.

Max King Interviewed: It's Ultras and Montrail in 2010

In case you missed it, Montrail just announced its team for 2010. The additions include Dakota Jones, Jill Perry, Mandy Hosford, and four members of the now defunct Canadian Team Montrail: Gary Robbins, Ryne Melcher, Ellie Greenwood and Syl Corbett. We should probably mention Max King is now an ultrarunner on Team Montrail! Well, when [...]

This Week In Running (Week of 12/12 & 12/13)

This Week In Running for the week of December 12-13, 2009.

Kevin Sullivan, 5th Place 2009 Western States 100, Interview

iRunFar was lucky enough to catch up with New Englander Kevin Sullivan following his fifth place finish at the 2009 Western States 100. For those of you who don’t know Kevin, iRunFar readers voted his second place at last year’s Vermont 100 as the best debut 100 miler of 2008. Already in 2009, Kevin [...]

Western States 100 Prediction Contest Results

We didn’t want a week to go by between the 2009 Western States Endurance Run and the announcement of the winners of the Western States Prediction Content. That meant a combination of good coding by Mitchell Goodman of the Ultra Good blog and some good old fashioned number crunching by Bryon Powell. As Bryon [...]

2009 Western States 100 Roundup [Updated 7/3/09]

Yeah, I was on the course and could report on what I saw at this year’s Western States 100. Not gonna do that as such coverage would be incomplete due to my switch from reporter to Andy Jones-Wilkins’s pacer at Bath Road. I’ll leave the reporting to those who had a consistent role (be it [...]

Western States Group-Think Predictions

With all the data pouring in to the iRunFar Western States Prediction Contest, we just couldn’t help but play with the data. Below we attempt to apply a hive-mentality approach to see how the men’s and women’s fields play out when the collective thoughts of 175 contest participants are accumulated. In addition to showing how [...]

This Week In Running : Special Western States 100 Edition

It has been two long years since Hal Koerner crossed the finish line in first place at the 2007 Western States Endurance Run with a time of 16:12:16. Two long years since Nikki Kimball won her 3rd WSER in 18:12:37. It has been too long.
The 2008 edition of the WSER just didn’t happen. [...]

Western States Prediction Contest

In this, the final installment of Western States Synchroblog Project, we’re making the post all about iRunFar readers… or at least their ability to pick the winners of next weekend’s Western States Endurance Run. The top three prognosticators will be rewarded with trail-worthy Montrail and Mountain Hardwear gear. Read on to learn how this [...]

Cal 2, I Love You

There’s no aid station that I’m looking forward to more at this year’s Western States 100 than Peachstone… or Cal 2 as the purists call it. That’s my response to the fourth Western States synchroblog topic – “What aid station are you most looking forward to?” While that answer is due in part to the [...]

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