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By on 10 Feb 2007

Welcome to EnduranceBuzz.com!

The world it is a changin’. This includes EnduranceBuzz.
This site has always been passionate about long-course endurance sports, especially running. I have decided to re-focus a bit and immerse myself in all things trail and ultrarunning with extra attention to my region, the south midwest. This region may not have the mountains of the west and east coast but we have some pretty fun and challenging trails, cool race directors, and amazing athletes. It is time we bring this to light!
EnduranceBuzz is going to try and enducate, inform, inspire, and entertain anyone interested in this soul-revealing and sometimes insane sport.
EnduranceBuzz will also include any healthy living ideas that may interest and benefit you.

EnduranceBuzz.com is a site created for those interested in trail/ultra running with extra attention to the South Midwest United States (TALON - Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico). The site began to focus on the regional trail/ultra scene in July of 2009 and has continued to grow and showcase the amazing people, places, and races with the region.

Dirt you will find on Endurance Buzz:

  • New content is added regularly including regional race news, trail and road ultrarunning tips, running gear reviews, race profiles, interviews with other ultrarunners, wellness/nutrition ideas, and race reports from a variety of athletes.
  • Put simply – our focus is to inform, inspire, or entertain those interested in this soul revealing and often wacky sport.
  • The most complete and continually updated listing of trail and ultra events in the region!  - Check out the TALON Race Guide

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Who Started EnduranceBuzz.com

Hey, my name is David Hanenburg and I am the founder of Endurancebuzz.com.

After being fairly inactive (OK, mostly) for the three years after graduating from college, I was “birthed” into endurance sports in the year 2000! Sounds painful and actually at times it has been.

This discomfort is actually minimal compared to the pure joy, adventure, camaraderie, and life-lessons endurance sport has shared with me.

I love this stuff!

I love this tribe!

I love this life!

You can read the full path of my endurance sports life so far…at David’s Endurance Sports Journey page.

Those Making a Buzz

You can meet our amazing writers below.

Jason Taylor

Jason is a full time student working towards a Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Anna.

Although he grew up running and playing sports it wasn’t until their brief move to Bend, Oregon in 2008 and 2009 that he really found his love for running. After completing his first marathon in the fall of 2009, he continued to pursue longer distances and has completed several ultras.

Jason’s life goal is to inspire, influence and transform others through his love for running and his passion for life. His background includes being a fitness instructor, triathlon and run coach, pastor and life and leadership coach.

In his words, “I love to inspire…influence…transform others; My life’s passions: My Lord – Jesus; My Wife – Anna; Fitness and Adventure”

Check out the Endurance Buzz articles by Jason.

Olga King

Olga King (Varlamova) has picked up a second wind of running at the beginning of her fourth decade, as a breath of personal fresh air after giving birth to two kids and losing 60 pounds. Not even two years later she entered the world of ultrarunning, where she has resided ever since.

With the success of being a self-proclaimed “freight train that never stops”, she has finished over 100 races at distances from the marathon and beyond, including 18 100 mile finishes. She has some wins and good races to her credit, as well as pure survival quests.

Her favorite distance is 100 miles on gnarly mountain terrain, but more often than not 50 milers in special places bring just as much joy and satisfaction.

Short or long, single track trails are her passion (as she lived East, West and South and traveled everywhere across and in-between), but she doesn’t shy away from anything she can run.

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Check out the Endurance Buzz articles by Olga.

Joe Prusaitis

Joe was raised a military brat in VA, PA, AK, and France. He served in the Army as an electronics tech and went to college for degrees in Electronics and Software Engineering where he worked as a computer tech and then software engineer for 30 years.

Joe’s sport was baseball. After high school, this turned to softball. After kids, this turned to running. One 5km run in 1987 eventually became five marathons a year.

Joe ran his first trail race in 1996, a 50 miler. Since then, he has ran at least 100 ultras, nearly 50 marathons, and a variety of other odd and various distances.

Joe parleyed this background into coaching trail runners where he works with first-timers and also coaches a woman who has run for the United States 100km team.

He also owns a Texas trail race event business which has grown to 11 per year including two current USAT&F National Championships.

Joe sits on the USAT&F South Texas board, representing Mountain/Ultra/Trail and was recently re-elected as President of the Hill Country Trail Runners, and of course…he continues to run.

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Check out the Endurance Buzz articles by Joe.

Julie Dolph

Julie’s running journey began 13 years ago and has since learned so much about herself. She learned about personal strength and perseverance. Anything is possible!

Julie began running  5km, 10km, and a few half marathons to keep fit through the years. Then she began to look for a new running challenge.  Julie’s love of hiking and being in nature led her to try running the trails instead of hiking them. She was instantly hooked and fortunate to live close to an 18 mile scenic and hilly trail system.

What was once a hobby, now became a passion.

With the support of a local trail running group, the Oklahoma Trail Running Association, Julie has a great network of experienced trail runners that provide guidance and encouragement as she explores this new off-road running world.

Three years after starting this trail running journey, Julie is proud to have finished a variety of distances that include several 50kms and she is also entertaining thoughts of a 50 mile (and possibly longer) in her near future.

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Jim Breyfogle

Jim took up running during college in 2002 after a wild and unhealthy youth.  He started with road marathons, but during an internship in Portland, Oregon, he discovered trail running and was hooked. He ran his first ultra in 2004, and since then has completed over 80 ultras, including 17 different 100 milers, plus many shorter races, triathlons, mountain bike races, and adventure races. Jim is the race director for two ultras in New Mexico that raise money for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (pancan.org): Cedro Peak, and Deadman Peaks.

Jim has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, and is completing his MBA, while working as a process engineer in the semiconductor industry. He and his wife, Emilie, have been together for 7 years, and they live happily in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.  He takes a less serious approach to racing and training, and prefers low key, old school events.  His goal on this site is to show how to race frequently and injury free, while maintaining a family, career, and life outside of running.

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Meredith Terranova

Meredith has been helping her clients reach their nutritional goals since 2004.  Through Meredith’s guidance, her clients have reached goals ranging from losing weight to completing Ironman triathlons with the right nutritional strategy.

Meredith received her Bachelors in Human Nutrition and Consumer Science from the University of Houston in 1997, followed by her Internship from UH in 1998.

As an ultra-distance runner, a healthy lifestyle has become even more important.  By living what she teaches, she has experienced a huge impact on training, performance, and recovery.   This is evident as she continues to see success at every distance from a 5-mile race to a 100km in the mountains.

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Check out Endurance Buzz articles by Meredith.

Additional amazing TALON writers coming soon!

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