Clambake: a cool Striders' event

Sunday, September 16. I was excited to join my club mates, from the Stevens Creek Striders , for this annual event combining running, potent...

OM: a Mid-Peninsula ultra tradition

This year marked the 18 th edition of this Mid-Peninsula private ultra event in the Bay Area. A gathering of the local ultra community hel...

Headlands 50K : ups and downs

Championship time! This Sunday, I participated in my first USA Track & Field Championship. I ran 3 Marathon Nationals in France, but thi...

Skyline 50K: fast and foggy

I flew back from France last Thursday, after some great training on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) course . I was so excited to see ho...

UTMB training camp: trail review for 2008?

Unlike the very organized Western States training camp of Memorial Day weekend in May , there is no formal training camp for the UTMB . Yet,...

A training week with a champion: Karine Herry

I saw Karine for the first time two years ago on the Western States course when she passed through Last Chance, the aid station I was captai...