Current and past Salt Lake City Marathon, Half Marathon, 5K’ers, Kids Marathon, and Bike Tourers — UNITE! Monday’s tragedy in Boston wasn’t just an attack on America or Boston, it was an attack on runners of all speeds. “Can’t Slow Us Down!”, a Facebook event, has been created by a local SLC’er who plans...
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Back in January, Ragnar, along with Salomon, announced the big news that the Ragnar Relay would take to the trails for the first time and Utah would be the first place to host a trail event. That race is happening at the Zion Ponderosa Ranch in April. Today a new stop in the Ragnar...
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If you’ve never tried an obstacle course before, the whole premise that people pay to crawl through mud and jump over fire can be hard to wrap your head around. But obstacle course racing has become a permanent fixture in endurance sports in the last few years. This year event companies will rake in...
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Big news coming from Salomon and the Ragnar Relay, as the two companies have partnered to take the running team concept and overnight relay to the trails for the first time, and Utah will play host to the inaugural event. We all know and love the original Ragnar Wasatch Back, and now those of us...
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Running shoes come is all shapes, sizes, and styles these days, and Altra, a Utah company specializing in “biomechanically proper footwear,” has joined the fray with their Zero Drop designs. The Lone Peak trail running shoes are a classic example of of this, and I got to test out a pair to see what...
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Running a marathon is no easy feat. Now multiply that by 6 and you’ve got the distance of the Grand to Grand Ultra, the first and only self supported stage footrace in North America. If the lure of covering 160 miles in 6 stages over 7 days isn’t enough, consider the terrain that this...
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Summer may be winding down, but there are still plenty of warm weather events to participate in, like the Hidden Peak Challenge and Widow Maker races at Snowbird. Both events, one a trail running race, the other a mountain biking hill climb, take place on September 15th. If you’re a runner, then take the...
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If you are looking for a “fun” mud run this is not for you. Hurt in the Dirt lives up to its name. It’s the real deal. So real, Olympic gold medalist Billy Demong dominated the duathlon course as a solo participant. He finished the trail run and mountain bike race more than a...
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It’s 3 AM and I’m halfway through my third leg of R-Scape. Someone has taken my lungs and replaced them with lead filled balloons, tied an anchor to my ass and then acquired the help of gremlins to dismantle the soft tissue of my hamstrings. Well, in reality, I just finished climbing that fun...
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In a world populated by runners, there are runners, and there are trail runners. And for the those trail runners, there’s the R-Scape 18 Hours of Ogden, 18-hour relay race that’s run entirely on trails that wind around Ogden’s east bench. This year’s R-Scape 18 Hours of Ogden begins on Friday, August 10th, and...
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