By Brooke Schohl, MS, RD Your training is picking up speed, you have your eye on your “A” race and you can’t wait to check off those lofty 2014 goals. Eating well the majority of the time (leaving room for occasional…
By Dave Wiens Congratulations! By being chosen to start the Leadville Trail 100 MTB, you have just been awarded a journey. Well, two journeys, actually. The first is a long one and it begins now, today. It entails your training…
By Rebecca Rusch You don’t need a lottery slot handed to you. You can earn your space in that corral and still race on August 9. Well, you are reading this message with disappointment because you were not selected for…
By Timmy Parr, 2009 LT100 Run champion with a time of 17.27:23 and 2013 10K champ/course record holder with 35:23 “Snow.” I repeated the word slowly drawing it out, “Snooow.” My 11-month-old daughter Katrina pointed outside at the white falling…
Not everyone can take on the Leadville Trail 100 Run, but Joel Anderson has every intention of doing so – especially after all he’s been through to get his shot at the race. After months of training for the 2013 event,…
By Rebecca Rusch The Silver Rush 50 MTB is half the distance of the Leadville Trail 100 MTB, but you’ll put in more effort per mile. Here’s what to expect – and to watch for – out on course. The…
By Emily Booth For some runners and ultra-runners, it’s a challenge to consider doing anything but running, but there are physical and mental benefits to incorporating other activities this time of the year. In early January, I stepped off the…
Leadman record holder and coach Travis Macy shares five key Leadville Race Series training tips. A recent trip to Leadville for a snowshoe race reminded me of just why I love the town and its races so much. When I…
By Trish Coffman A big bowl of popcorn is a given this time of year, when so many of us are hunkering down with Netflix next to the fire (after a hard training effort, of course). But instead of the…
These two brothers, with a bucket list and buckle dreams, took Ken’s "dig deep" admonition to new depths over the course of 12 hours. But Chris, who has type 1 diabetes, crashed in the final seconds of their desperate push…