by John | Feb 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hellgate. The race that never starts. Where the leaves run deep. Where you may never have this opportunity again. I can always find something to write about David Horton’s Hellgate 100k because it contains many of the recipes for a good story – hardship,...
by John | Nov 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
A year ago, at the Barkley Fall Classic 2019, I found myself laying on the ground in a tunnel underneath the six-foot briars on Rat Jaw, cramping and telling Frank Gonzalez to crawl over me if he wanted to get by. I wasn’t the only one sitting or lying on the...
by John | Jan 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
I meant to write up a race report for this year’s Hellgate. Like every year, I was having deep emotions and introspection in the race as well as in the minutes and days post-race. But life and sleep got in the way, and now, a few weeks...
by John | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Looking Glass 50-Miler Race Report, by Sophie Speidel When I turned 55 in late 2017, I celebrated with a year of doing “hard and scary” things, including running my fifth 100-miler, which I documented in a series of essays on the Trail Sisters platform. Among...
by John | Jun 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
