Neal Lucas and Jean Cummings Perez bring home the 60 km series championship. Bridget Delarosa Lopez and Brandon Ostrander earn the 30 km series championship. The final race of the Tejas Trails nighttime series went down at the Shoe over the weekend. (the Lake summary, the Falls summary) Nearly 300 runners got a free-pass to [...]

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At 4:00 AM on August 20th, a focused and excited group of TALON (TX, AR, LA, OK, NM) athletes positioned themselves at the corner of 6th and Harrison for the start of the “Race Across the Sky” – the Leadville 100 Trail Run. This out-and-back trail and mountain road course dances between 9,200 feet and [...]

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What goes up, must come down! That’s your race profile for the 10 km grunt and float run called the Taos Ski Valley Up and Over Trail Run. It was a beautiful and exhilarating morning on the trails in Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico as runners started their scamper at 9,207 feet and climbed up, up, [...]

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The Houston Trail Runners Extreme put together a fun Fat Ass trail running adventure over the weekend at Memorial Park in Houston. This 3/6 hour run was called the FatAsstic Challenge in the Ho and unlike many of the events this time of year, this fun started at 6 AM with the final runners ending [...]

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Neal Lucas has been burnin’ up the local Texas trail running scene since earlier this Spring and has been the first to enjoy a burger in every trail adventure he has entered; Prickly Pear 50 km (3:25), Hells Hills 50 mile (6:59), the Lake 60 km (5:44), and the Falls 60 km (5:12:05). And toss [...]

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“There will be trying times in an ultra, but enjoy what you can of it. …Laugh. …Be a kid. …Be happy.” – Bryon Powell in Relentless Forward Progress Earlier this year Bryon Powell, the talented ultra runner, writer, and Runner-in-Chief of iRunFar, released his informative running book called Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running [...]

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Do you know about the unique and fun state-team component of the Arkansas Traveller 100 mile adventure that takes place on October 1-2? I didn’t, but thanks to a wise ultra running veteran in New Mexico, I have gained a bit of TALON trail running awareness. The bread and butter basics… You are automatically included [...]

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